RQ11035 - Solutions Designer - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Undertakes the design of hosting technology solutions based on the client’s service specifications, standards, policies, best practices and cost models, in order to meet client application business requirement and project/initiative deliverables.
  

General Skills:

• Knowledge of integrated networking technologies, mainframe, midrange server, enterprise storage and SAN, and personal computer system technologies
  
• Knowledge of related best practices, OPS directory/messaging standards, standard facilities infrastructure/architecture management, facility service delivery processes, infrastructures policies, procedures and direction, cost models and procurement processes
  
• Ability to gather client business requirements; corporate I&IT information mandates, client information technology strategic plans, environment and standards
  
• Ability to participate in the development of solutions and provide advice on short/long term solution service development activities.
  
• Knowledge of leading edge technologies design criteria, security and recovery procedures, preparation of technical specifications for installation, testing and performance of integrated, multi-services systems; assess performance and capacity of existing system making recommendations for improving performance and develop technical documentation.
  
• Experience planning, migrating, implementing and sustaining large complex system development projects
  
• Knowledge of technology developments, trends and new products to evaluated application to client short and long term technology requirements.
  
• Basic knowledge of project management methodology (e.g. PMBOK), analytical tools and processes. Conceptual and analytical skills to assess and evaluate client needs and conduct cost/benefit analyses for new technology requirements in planning and designing solutions.
  
• Experience designing and developing large, complex, highly available, mission critical server applications
  
• Experience with systems evaluation to assess conditions, technical performance and capacity of existing systems and determine need and feasibility of expansion, renovation or replacement
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills and negotiation skills, team work skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• At least 10 years of experience in design, development, implementation and maintenance of large complex Oracle Siebel, IBM Curam, Dynamics or other COTS CRM systems.
  
• At least 10 years of experience in J2EE integration with other systems such as Oracle Siebel, IBM Curam, or other COTS systems.
  
• Demonstrated experience in and understanding of J2EE architecture
  
• Must have hands-on experience with n-tier web-based applications, Unix, Shell Scripting, Ant script, Javascript, XML/XSD, XSL, HTML5 and source code management tools like Subversion or CVS.
  
• Execute tasks on XSLT/XQuery/XPATH and transformation capabilities, hands on experience with Oxygen XSLT IDE or any XSLT IDE for creating and debugging XSL
  
• Experience designing detailed functional and technical requirements for new and existing business solutions.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Technical Skills:

• 10+ years of experience on backend design and development using REST Web Services, JPA, hibernates, database, SQL, PL/SQL. 
  
• Strong expertise in enterprise integration design, including experience with integration patterns, technologies, design principle and best practices. 
  
• In-depth knowledge of Spring Framework, especially Spring Integration, and experience designing and building integration solutions using it. 
  
• Strong knowledge of message-oriented middleware and enterprise service buses as IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACEs) or MuleSoft and experience designing and building solutions using them. 
  
• Experience with integration technologies, such as JMS, AMQP, or REST, and an understanding of how to use them in Azure context 
  
• Hands-on experience with integration technologies, such as JMS, AMQP, or REST, and an understanding of how to use them in Azure Integration context. 
  
• Experience with data model, database such as Oracle, SQL server. 
  
• Experience with cloud-based integration solutions 
  

 Development Skills:

• 10+ years of experience on backend design and development using REST Web Services, JPA, hibernates, database, SQL, PL/SQL. 
  
• Hands-on experience with integration technologies, such as APIs, Message Queues and Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): 
  
• Experience in designing solutions from business requirements, especially using UML, JEE, Service Bus, and ETL.  
  

System Analysis:

• Experience in System Analysis, requirements gathering and designing use cases  
  
• Experience with prototyping solution for presentation to the client or Sr. management  
  

Communication Skills:

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills  
  
• Experience with facilitating and leading discussions with technical teams as well as business  
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines  
  

Public sector exp:

• Experience in working with Enterprise Architecture within OPS, following standarards and documentation artifacts and template