IBM Sterling integration developer

IBM Sterling integration developer Cincinnati, OH, USA

Top skills Drive things with minimal guidance, Be able to talk in business language, Supplier communication Speaking with Kroger suppliers representing Kroger to them, Effective in communication and negotiation, Experience with Sterling Integration

Needs to be able to flip to full time, this is a contract to hire position

Project Food safety tracking and compliance

Team details ie. size, dynamics, locations small team

Work Location (in office, hybrid, remote) in Office Monday-Thursday, Must be local to Cincinnati or willing to relocate will be considered

Job Description

Responsible for participating in the design, development, testing, debugging, maintaining, and documenting software components in accordance with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices. Establish estimates and work plans for design, development, implementation, and rollout tasks. Communicate with the appropriate teams to ensure that assignments are delivered with the highest quality and in accordance with standards.

Minimum Position Qualifications

5+ years of successful and applicable hands-on experience in software or infrastructure development domain and principles, including design patterns and code structure

5+ years of proven track record of designing and delivering large scale, high-quality systems

5+ years of successful and applicable experience taking a lead role in building complex software and automation systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Expertise in EDI standards and compliance

Strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition

Proven ability to think and contribute at the strategic level

Demonstrated written, oral and presentation/public speaking communication skills

Understanding of network and security architecture

Deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud, middleware, servers and storage, database management, and operations

Desired Experience

Any experience in system architecture

Awareness/experience working with FSMA

Any experience in Cloud software service including designing for scale, performance and reliability

Demonstrated capability to build, mentor and maintain an inclusive team-based environment

Experience building solutions using elastic architectures (preferably Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform)

Required Skill Set:

Proficient in designing standard data exchanges using EDI tools like IBM Sterling B2Bi

Proficient in implementing, configuring, and maintaining EDI systems using EDI tool Sterling B2Bi

Solid understanding of object-oriented principles, design patterns, and core principles of code reusability and extensibility of solutions, including mocking and unit testing

Knowledge of EDI standard formats (ANSI X12, EDIFACT, XPath, BPML, XSLT, XML Schemas etc.) and EDI translators

Experience with Middleware integrations like IBM MQ platform, APIGEE, Kafka etc.

Experience with communication protocols (AS2, SFTP)

Experience with the IBM Data Power appliance

Experience with Web technologies including and not limited to Angular, Java, Spring boot, SOAP/REST

Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure automations.

Proficient with ITSM/other change management processes.

Key Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions

Develop a high-quality codebase, lead design discussions, execute development against design, and navigate complex codebase

Responsible for development implementation of technical design within a defined set of teams. Execute against defined technology roadmap to support project portfolio and business strategy

Participate in implementing enterprise standards across domains: operations, infrastructure, data, applications, development, security & risk, and business continuance

Provide technical clarity between ongoing projects and the strategic objectives of the company

Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate

Implement high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state solution

Lead the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement

Mentor team members in software development principles, patterns, processes and, practices

Manage and coordinate with offshore teams