Enterprise Application Integration Engineer

Enterprise Application Integration Engineer

Job Description

Description of Services & Deliverables

The client requires the services of one Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer for Business Systems Engineering software development initiatives. The Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer will work under the direction of the FDLE’s System Programming Administrator to achieve the goals and objectives of the projects stated below.
The client requires the services of a Systems Analyst with technical knowledge and experience in programming the J2EE/JAVA, JBOSS application server, MS SQL and ORACLE database environments.
The person in this function is considered an expert in all phases of system development and must have understanding of business, business insight and broad understanding of multiple business areas.
The person in this function will be responsible for translating the business requirements into functional requirements and IT processes required to prepare Technical Design Document (TDD), Solution Design Document (SDD), high-level process flow diagrams, designs, traceability matrix of solutions with the requirements.
The person in this function will be responsible for stakeholder management with project sponsors, business and IT project managers, technical architects, development and validation teams, implementation analysts, subject matter experts, IT Senior leadership and project management office in order to address various issues, resolve the queries, communicate on project status, milestones, delays, challenges, risks and risk mitigation plans.
The person in this function will be responsible for research on current industry trends, emerging technologies and challenges, systems integration, and configuration to apply in solution development.
The person in this function will be responsible for support validation of system changes and perform high-level UAT as and when needed. Serve as liaison between Business and IT teams to resolve issues and concerns preventing testing sign-off. Integrate with internal and external applications, and deliver the working iteration into production environment.

Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following:

Gather and analyze business requirements and prepare functional requirements, design documentation, technical specification documents to develop client Information Systems.
Functions as a technical consultant or researcher.
Technical research and evaluation of technologies, tools, databases, methods, etc.
Analysis of detailed requirements and documentation
Programming and implementing solutions for business requirements
Contributor on project planning, organization, implementation
Contributor to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, WBS development
Contributor to risk identification, tracking, analysis
Contributor to issue management and tracking
Communications management

Effective communication among project stakeholders,
Coordinate activities with client staff required to support the project
Provide assistance to client staff in the preparation of procurement documents, evaluation of proposals and contract negotiations;
Provide weekly status reports to the project manager

Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 15 years of experience as a applications development analyst on successful, enterprise level information technology projects;
Knowledge at an expert level in all phases of system development and must have understanding of business, business insight and broad understanding of multiple business areas.
Models and applies software engineering methods and techniques to the design, definition, development, evaluation, integration, and/or support of IT solutions.
Must have the ability to work independently or cooperatively with other software developers.
Functions as a technical consultant or researcher
Performs analysis and troubleshooting of system defects and issues.
Designs quality control and test procedures. Applies technical expertise to test system solutions.
Uses defined procedures to configure, test and debug software. Investigates, analyzes and resolves problems on software products.
With minimal supervision from more senior resources, handles portions of the projects, including services/products/technology solution evaluation/modification, data development, analysis, first draft written communications and client interaction.
Gathers and evaluates client capabilities and needs.
Assists with services/products/technology solution architecture design and installation.
Accountable to upper management for all phases of specific projects.
Experience with meeting facilitation and documentation;
Experience in delivering the project in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification (i.e. defined to meet user requirements) within the approved budget and other specified criteria
Experience with:
Java 1.6 and higher
J2EE (JSP, EJB, JPA/Hibernate)
Java Frameworks like JSF, Wicket, Struts, Spring, etc
Server Configuration using Apache HTTP, Apache Tomcat, JBoss EAP, JBoss Fuse and JBoss AMQ
Enterprise Content Management (Alfresco, Activiti, Ephesoft)
JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS), Eclipse, Intellij, Notepad ++, Textpad, SOAP UI, IReport Designer
Oracle 11g and higher, MS SQL Server, or MySQL
Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.
Web Services using SOAP and REST
Visual Basic
VB Script
JavaScript
VB DLL creations/usage
ASP
Linux
XML

Experience in developing new XHTML pages using Java Server Faces, Primefaces, JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
Experience in Systems integration using Payment Gateways
Experience in integration of multiple systems or applications
Experience automating data sharing processes

Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
Oracle EBS 12.1
Shell, awk, sed scripts
Hibernate (object relational mapping tools)
Active Report
Crystal Report
Microsoft Project
Business Analysis
Database Design
WebLogic 7.0 (application server)

The Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer will report to the designated client System Programming Administrator. The Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer is expected to perform the tasks and specific assignments given by the client System Programming Administrator.

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status