(657) Integration Specialist x2 – BSTD needed at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Define own work plan and deliverables with guidance from the manager as well as conduct and prioritise delivery of own outputs against the work plan.
• Prepare and deliver work that reflects the range of methods and practices in integration.
• Develop and implement integration processes and interfaces, including third-party and perimeter/boundary integration, in support of the current environment and new project initiatives aligned with Project Management Office (PMO) standards.
• Analyse and translate functional specifications and change requests into technical specifications and designs.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of integration systems, message flows and integration patterns through analysis, coding, writing clear documentation and problem resolution.
• Interact with vendors on the implementation, configuration and maintenance of integration-related platforms (including hardware and software components).
• Comply with policies and procedures, and participate in disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives to ensure effective availability, protection and integrity of data assets.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders; maintaining employee, vendor and client relationships by providing timely and accurate information to keep them updated.
• Comply with expected standards and procedures for the completion of processes and tasks in integration, and to contribute to the overall strategy of integration in the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, or an equivalent qualification (NQF 7); and
• five to eight years’ job integration-related experience.

The following would be an added advantage:

• working experience (design, development and administration) in IBM integration technologies, such as IIB/ACE, MQ, Datapower, API Connect, Cloud Pak 4 Integration and redhat openshift;
• working experience (design, development and administration) in Oracle integration technologies – Oracle SOA;
• working experience (design, development and administration) in globalscape;
• extensive experience in Unix and Linux; and 
• extensive experience in Confluence, JIRA and Bitbucket.