IBM ESB Integration Lead

An IBM ESB Integration Lead is responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of enterprise service bus (ESB) solutions, primarily using IBM technologies

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the development lifecycle of ESB integrations, including design, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical direction to a team of integration developers.
• Develop and maintain detailed technical specifications for ESB solutions.
• Integration Design: Design and implement integration solutions using IBM IIB/ACE, MQ, and other relevant technologies.
• Solution Delivery: Ensure timely and quality delivery of integration projects, meeting business requirements and architectural standards.
• Troubleshooting & Support: Troubleshoot and resolve complex integration issues in production environments.

• Lead and support during the Peak Season readiness and execution
  of following activities
  • Operational readiness of alerts, monitoring dashboards and
    SOPs
  • Shift and communication plans/ rosters
  • Performance fixes for issues identified by the testing team during
    peak readiness performance testing/ runs

• Best Practices: Enforce coding standards, design patterns, and integration best practices.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with architects, business analysts, and other development teams to ensure successful integration.

• Engage Source and Destination Application support team through Site
  Ops team proactively to triage and resolve any issues.
• Publish heath check on the integrations as part of the weekly stat
  governance report.
• Develop SOPs and maintain them.
• Support Grafana application for monitoring purposes
• Partner with the Integration Core and Flex teams as part of
  deployments on Production and lower environments as well as cut
  over
• Maintain DevOps ecosystem, upgrades, patching to underlying
  supporting DevOps applications, making sure scripts are maintained
  and ensure uptime

Required Skills & Experience:

• IBM IIB/ACE: Extensive experience with IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE).
• : Strong knowledge and experience with IBM MQ (Message Queue).
• Integration Technologies: Familiarity with various integration technologies like SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, etc.
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in Java, ESQL, XSLT, and other relevant languages for message transformation and flow development.
• API Management: Experience with API management platforms like Apigee (preferred).
• Cloud Integration: Understanding of cloud-based integration patterns and technologies (e.g., Azure, AWS).
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools like Jenkins, Maven, and Azure DevOps.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk and Avada Monitoring.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams