Technical Consultant II (Java Developer)

What is the opportunity?

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, the Senior Technology and Integration Services, the Integration Consultant will work in multiple client-facing projects to enable SaaS onboarding. You will act as the technical go-to person for SaaS onboarding and a thought leader on Zafin integration paradigms and its best practices across multiple cloud platforms. You will have ample opportunities to field your best communication, technical, and organizational skills to take a SaaS project from initiation to go-live. You will represent client interests internally to enhance process, product, documentation, and delivery experience. You will interact with senior technical leaderships on the client-side and present and align them with solution approaches. You will interact with multiple internal stakeholders to achieve alignment across various project goals and delivery targets.

What will you do?

• Interact and collaborate with customers and partners to define the integration landscape.
• Define the logical sequence of integration activities for a SaaS onboarding project.
• Coordinate with the product development team to implement recommended integration strategies.
• Improve overall project delivery experience and go-live time by improving process and documentation.
• Support cloud infrastructure and system components required for integration.
• Lead the identification, isolation, resolution, and communication of issues within a client environment.

What do I need to succeed?

Must have:

• Worked on at least one end to end SaaS implementation project.
• 3 to 5 years of application and data integration experience.
• Experience with clustering and high availability configurations.
• Agile experience.
• Designed an end-to-end scalable integration solution.
• Broad exposure to different technology stacks involved in a SaaS delivery model.
• Broad and in-depth knowledge of:
  • data integration concepts and tools
  • network protocol stacks and related integration paradigms
  • security postures in integration technology stacks
  • API design and API based integration
  • Azure, AWS and GCP public cloud platforms and provided services and their integration approaches
  • Integration frameworks used by SaaS applications.
• Skilled technical documenter.
• Solution designer at heart.
• Experience in using modeling tools to create effective architecture views.
• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to break down complex technical and functional requirements and effectively articulate / communicate them to different stakeholders involved in a project.
• Self-starter willing to get involved in all aspects of solution delivery including implementation and process improvement.
• Broad picture minded - one who sees the end-to-end solution of a project.

Nice to have:

• Domain knowledge of banking and financial institutions and/or large enterprise IT environment.
• Strong delivery experience with geographically distributed delivery and client teams.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with setting up and configuration of Kafka brokers.
• Strong knowledge and experience with the Kafka Connect Framework including working with multiple connector types: HTTP, RESTful APIs, JMS.