Solutions Architect - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 17-11-2016 1:31:12 PM
08-12-2016 1:24:48 PM
Description

Our client s a prime system integrator for the Oracle Insurance suite of products for Fortune 500
insurance companies. They are currently looking for highly motivated candidates to join the
company as a Solutions Architect.

The ideal candidate has superior technical skills for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), data
transformation tools, the ability to adapt depending on the platform and the willingness to learn
and adapt. Knowledge of the insurance industry is a definite plus.

Responsibilities

Support the integration aspects of implementing web services, services oriented architecture solutions (SOA) or event driven architecture solutions (EDA)
Deliver application integrations between product suites and custom integration with ESB and legacy systems
Contribute to Data mapping and transformation tasks using XML technologies and tools
Develop integration modules and web services using Java programming language
Communicate with business users (BAs and SMEs) to refine business requirements
Work jointly with and the client’s SOA architects and system integrators
Create technical documentation

Skills and abilities

Java programming: J2EE/EE7/EE6, OO design/analysis, web services (Axis 2, Metro), unit testing
Good understanding of the industry standards for SOA (WSDL, SOAP, XML Schema, WS-*)
Good knowledge of SQL and general database concepts
Participate to load, performance and regression Testing
Ability to self-start, multi-task and manage conflicting priorities
Communicate effectively in both oral and written form
Demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills

Requirements

Essential – B.S in computer science, engineering discipline or equivalent experience
Essential – Experience with enterprise architecture and SOA
Essential – Experience in Java programming and system development life cycle methodology
Essential – Experience in information/data analysis and data modeling
Essential – Experience with XML technologies and standards (XLS, XPath, DTD, XSD, etc.)
Essential – English fluency
Asset – Knowledge of ACORD standard
Asset – French fluency is an asset
Asset – Oracle database
Asset – ETL tools (Informatica, ODI, etc.)
Asset – Application Server (WebSphere, WebLogic)
Asset – Linux

Recruiter: Studio 29