Senior Middleware Engineer
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Job Description
What You’ll Do
As part of our Digital Payments technology domain, you’ll:
- Leverage your development skills to the highest capacity to help drive key initiatives and projects and shape our business and technology outcomes to meet customer and partner needs.
- Create and break down product/platform efforts into successful execution-ready plan
- Break down complex requirements into workable technical solutions.
- Contribute to the developer experience by leveraging the latest industry technologies to enhance current solution patterns and define new ones.
How You’ll Do It
- Regular interaction with Product Manager, Product Owner and Product Architect for evolution, security enhancement and growth strategies.
- Support, engineer and build activities for Portal, Gateway and API Lifecycle engineering teams and overall direct responsibility for health of the platforms.
- Leads and executes on strategic technical objectives for security and evolution initiatives across API technology platforms.
- Perform technical analysis, design, build and deployment of highly complex / scalable API Platform.
- Infrastructure procurement facilitation and deployment through Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure teams.
- Work with an offshore team to help execute L1 activities.
- Perform API Platform engineer, build upgrades, patching, security vulnerability fixes.
- Perform automation for repeated operations activities using tools like Github, Jenkins, Ansible, Nexus, Service Now, Bash, Python
- Assist evaluating client-area application software/systems requirements and processes (e.g., new features, enhancements or maintenance).
- Develop large-scale, customer-facing applications and application software, test and implement efficient, cost effective application solutions.
- Research and evaluate alternative solutions, recommending the most efficient and cost-effective solution for the systems’ design.
- Design, develop, and integrate systems for digital presence by using Agile development methodologies to support existing and new product features.
- Complete technical design(s) as needed, ensuring that design(s) meet architecture standards and that the resulting system is flexible, easily maintainable, high performing, and integrates well with other related systems/components.
- Collaborate with other developers on code reviews and process enhancements, ensuring that code reviews are performed and documented using the approved template.
- Complete unit and system testing prior to the start of any PA region testing.
- May provide direction and guidance to other systems analysts/developers. Analyze and identify technical areas of improvement within existing web applications.
- Test and mitigate risks for all projects and releases.
- Ensure all projects have detailed implementation and back-out plans, and undergo thorough review in advance of scheduled release.
- Improve the performance of the production environment.
- Leverage Agile/iterative/lean processes to deliver projects faster.
- Propose ideas that better position our applications to support future business and technology initiatives, while meeting project/release timelines.
- Incorporate new technology/frameworks to support our continuous integration efforts.
- Ensure project compliance by adhering to regulatory, PDP, Change Management, and Internet Department processes and standards.
- Contribute to best practices to support a strong software architecture.
- Ensure any volume and capacity considerations are communicated during the design phase (or prior to committing to a Sprint). Document software and perform related duties as assigned or requested.
- Reduce occurrence of vulnerabilities by adhering to proper secure coding practices, having a "Security First" mindset, and handling sensitive data per security guidelines.
Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics:
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, or related field
- 4+ years of experience in software development or related field
- In lieu of education, 6+ years of experience in software development or related field
Bonus Points If You Have:
- 5+ years of application development and implementation experience
- 5+ years of Java experience
- 5+ years of Middleware experience
- 2+ years in Python
- 3+ years of financial services experience
- 3+ years of product development experience
- 3+ years of Agile experience
- 3+ years of experience with API Gateway (e.g. Layer7, Datapower) and Lifecycle Management technologies or equivalent.
- 3+ years of experience working with Linux based servers, patches, upgrades and shell scripting.
- Proven ability to communicate with business and technical groups easily, ability to communicate with various levels within the team, partners and stake holders
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills: demonstrated proficiency of identifying risks, proposing and implementing controls.
- Must be able to articulate complex concepts and be able to tailor the message to different audiences including senior leadership, technical teams, operations and line of business partners.
- Excellent relationship and partnership skills, ability to work closely and influence decision making with partners.
- Detailed knowledge of HTTP REST concepts, JSON, JSON Schema, the Swagger JSON REST specification, the HTTP protocol and status codes.
- Modern SDLC concepts and tools such as JIRA, Rally, Git/GitHub, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, etc.
- Experience with modern software development processes (Agile, Scrum etc.) within a large enterprise environment
- Knowledge of messaging platforms like WMQ, Rabbit.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of CI/CD concepts, including modern automation testing concepts, code quality metrics and build/dependency management tools
- Background working for an organization in financial services or technology
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