Technical Lead, Luxembourg (Near-site) – EIB

Job role: Technical Lead

Location: Luxembourg (Near site)

Languages required: English (C1) MANDATORY

Rate: 400-420€/day

MANDATORY:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in computer science, mathematics, physics or engineering (or equivalent applied experience)

• 10+ years of working experience in similar roles/positions

DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities

• Maintenance and support of IBM ACE, IBM MQ and WSO2 Micro-integrator platforms over the full development lifecycle and on operational aspects (monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, etc.)

• Analyze requirements, systems and integration interfaces, including the domain of Swift message processing

• Design, development, testing and deployment of message flows deployed on IBM AppConnect Enterprise (ACE)

• Troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and resolution of production issues with ESB services.

• Document integration solution design, configuration and deployment procedures, creating user guides and technical documentation for developers and platform engineers.

• Provide Support and maintenance of IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), IBM Transformation Extender (ITX), IBM MQ Series and WSO2 Micro-integrator deployed on Linux OS and IBM MQ.

• Monitor the health, performance, and availability of ESB infrastructure and services, and proactively identify and resolve issues.

• Raise and coordinate resolution of issues with middleware provider support teams.

• Perform middleware patching and upgrades.

• Participate to the failover and disaster recovery tests.

• Automation of certain manual process using Ansible and Azure DevOps pipelines.

Knowledge And Skills

• Knowledge in IBM AppConnect Enterprise (ACE)

• Knowledge in IBM Transformation Extender (ITX)

• IBM MQ

• WSO2 Micro-Integrator

• SWIFT message processing and formats (MT and MX formats)

• Data transformation using built-in transformation capabilities on ESB platforms, XSLT or eSQL

• Message queuing systems, protocols, and standards (e.g., MQ, SFTP, SOAP, REST).

• Programming languages like Java, Python or C#

• Authentication and authorization protocols

• SQL or My SQL

• Troubleshooting and investigation tools: scripting tools (Bash, Phyton), web services testing tools (SOAP UI, Postman)

• DevOps tools such as: Git, Jira, Azure DevOps, log aggregators like Splunk or ELK

Specific Expertise MANDATORY

• Analyze requirements, systems and interfaces to understand integration needs.

• Develop integration interfaces using IBM ACE and IBM MQ, including interface bespoke customizations.

• Using message queuing systems, protocols, and standards (e.g., MQ, SFTP, SOAP, REST).

• Handling SWIFT messages within application flows

• Using best practices to design new message flows

• Enforcing authentication and authorization in message flows using OAUTH, WS Security or certificate-based authentication protocols;

• Administering/troubleshooting IBM ACE and IBM MQ Series and WSO2 Micro Integrator.

• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python), web services testing tools (SOAP UI, Postman) for automation and monitoring tasks and log monitoring : events, errors via Splunk, ELK or equivalent tool

Languages

• English (C1) MANDATORY

Education

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in computer science, mathematics, physics or engineering (or equivalent applied experience)

Location

• Near site in Luxembourg