SOA Integrations Developer at Co-operative Bank of Kenya

Reporting to Head – Digital Hub, the role holder will be responsible for the detailed analysis, design, development, configuration, implementation, support and maintenance of the respective integrations and systems within the bank especially on TIBCO SOA integrations.

Additionally, the person will have knowledge of Monitoring SOA server performance, systems capacity, and plan and execute load balancing and fail over. Moreover, this role will require one to work in an agile environment to fulfill the needs of the team.

If this sounds like you, then consider this position at Co-operative Bank. It will give you an opportunity to leverage on our systems and digital platforms to deliver distinctive customer experiences.

It can only get more exciting for you here at “The Kingdom Bank”, you get to stretch yourself to new horizons, with opportunities at every step of your career!

SOA Integrations Developer Job Responsibilities

• Analyze requests obtained from business to determine operational problems, define integration requirements, advice best way for integration and document the same.
• Develop new and manage existing SOA integrations depending on the need and requirements.
• Develop, implement In-House Systems; interfaces and other programs as well as maintain and support various application systems and reports.
• Develop polices and processes around SOA systems, defining and executing lifecycle management compliance checkpoints and reviews, assistance with technology management of Service Oriented Infrastructure and SOA systems support for development, production and management of SOA implementation.
• Develop and maintain SOA reference architecture and assist in the management of the Universal Description,
• Discovery and Integration (UDDI) services catalog, SOAP and REST, Web-services, and Web Services
• Description Language (WSDL) to streamline the process of managing the SOA system uptime while ensuring optimum performance and efficient web services delivery through the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as part of the bank’s operating model.
• Support the UDDI services catalog in the development and management of SOA toolkits, reference architectures, and in the integration and deployment of Web Services provided by other vendors into the ESB.
• Provide hands on Performance Management of the SOA ESB products from TIBCO (TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS), TIBCO Business Works, Rendezvous (RV), TIBCO Hawk and TIBCO Spotfire) including WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere MQ and Oracle Tuxedo in development, test and production environments.
• Mentor and guide other developers on the implementation of web services to optimize resource utilization and also carry out technical user training as required to enable users interpret the reports.
• Provide test interfaces for users before go-live at the same time work with other vendors to configure and support SOA systems internally.
• Develop and maintain documentation/manuals on system configuration or setup.

Qualifications for the SOA Integrations Developer Job

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software and Electronics Engineering, IT or related field from a recognized university.
• At least 2 years’ experience in implementing and supporting TIBCO products, Web-services, load balancing and SOA implementation in development, test and production environment.
• Knowledgeable in the Integration to other supporting systems (database, OS and networks) and skilled in configuration and deployment of TIBCO components.
• A broad and deep understanding of web services automation implementation and support of SOA best practices in agile banking environments.
• Experience in performance monitoring, load balancing, performance tuning/optimization, load testing, management of SOA systems and must be able to independently carry out these functions including capacity planning in TIBCO SOA products environments.
• Excellent understanding of programming languages and other programming tools particularly C#, J2EE, HTML/CSS, XML.
• Strong analytical, presentation and troubleshooting skills with the ability to work through own initiative and as part of a team.
• Good knowledge and skills in configuration and deployment of TIBCO components.