General Function: Apply technical skills to build integration solutions for business and technical projects of a moderate to high level of complexity. Contribute and drive strategy for the team and the bank in areas such as SOA and BPM. Maintain an architectural focus and design solutions that are re-usable, scalable, reliable and meet performance needs. Provide leadership in the areas of technical analysis, design, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting and the mentoring of other team members. Promote adherence to bank policies and procedures. Closely follow the bank’s Project Management process during project work. Gain an understanding of all of the tools at our team’s disposal and drive project decisions toward the most appropriate tool.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
I. Design and lead implementations of integration solutions for 5/3’s business systems using technologies including Websphere Application Server, Websphere MQ and webMethods.
II. Design, program, test, and implement applications in a timely and efficient manner in accordance with corporate procedures and standards.
III. Write, modify, review, analyze and debug code, scripts, XML documents and other machine readable material.
IV. Must be able to articulate the benefits of integration. Should be able to contribute to philosophical discussions about SOA, ESB and EDA and help drive change within the organization.
V. Must have the ability to quickly learn new technologies. This includes technologies that we already use as well as technologies that are new to the bank. In order to provide and support integration solutions our team members need at least some understanding of all of the systems that we integrate with.
VI. Must be able to troubleshoot problems during development and in production. This includes reviewing logs, analyzing dumps, tracing code, etc.
VII. Analyze requested changes and perform maintenance or apply enhancements to 5/3 integration applications.
VIII. Play a key role as an individual contributor on projects. Work as part of a project team to determine project requirements, goals, implementation
IX. Work with offshore personnel to develop and maintain software solutions. Must be able to write specifications at a level suitable for offshore development. Must also be prepared to review project artifacts including designs and code delivered by the offshore team and make recommendations for improvement.
X. Develop an understanding of 5/3 Bank’s business lines and application systems. Work with other development teams across the bank to build new or enhanced systems.
XI. Provide training and knowledge sharing with fellow team members and other development groups. Make occasional presentations to technical staff and management.
XII. Assure projects follow 5/3’s Project Management guidelines and meet quality standards.
XIII. Must have the ability to work on several projects at a time. Must be able to manage time and priorities to ensure that commitments are met and that the lines of communication are flowing to the project managers and key project partners.
XIV. Participate in process improvement efforts in order to improve the team’s efficiency¸ improve quality or meet audit or regulatory requirements.
XV. Continues to develop technical expertise through e-learning, classroom training and other means. Keeps current with trends and technological innovations in the banking and IT industry.
XVI. Responsible for systems performance and resolution of production incidents, which may require 24hr/day and/or 7 day/week coverage
XVII. Assume additional responsibilities as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Good oral and written communication skills.
3. At least 5 years experience in software development.
4. Significant J2EE development experience.
5. Intermediate to expert understanding of integration technologies (MQ, JMS, WebServices, XML, SOAP, EJB’s, etc)
6. UNIX experience.
7. Experience gathering user requirements and translating to technical designs.
8. Experience creating project architecture documentation.
9. Experience troubleshooting technical problems.
10. Experience creating test cases and designing test plans.
11. webMethods and/or WebSphere experience is desired but not required.
12. Experience working with offshore teams is desired but not required.
13. Financial Industry knowledge is preferred but not required.