OSB Architect

The company is in the process of building up a Development Services organisation. Development Services will embrace the full software life cycle, including Architecture, SOA Governance, Development (OSB, BPEL, BPM, Java), Test, Build and Deployment. A vacancy exists for an OSB architect with strong skills in various technical aspects of the Oracle SOA Suite middle-ware stack combined with good leading and mentoring skills. • Developing OSB enterprise platform, be a technical platform mentor and sparring partner for solution architects • Provide platform roadmap overviews • Be technical lead for major platform projects • Ensure the future platform focusing on stability, performance and availability • Understand the business and customer needs to introduce technical solutions that meet or exceed needs • Take ownership and responsibility of implemented solutions • Participate in the architectural review and approval of application designs and technology selections for projects • Understand and contribute to Enterprise IT strategies; adhere to compliance regulations and development guidelines • Solid written and verbal communication skills and able to articulate the technically complex subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences • Able to develop scalable solutions that can be utilised by current and future channels – e.g. mobile • Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple tasks • Stakeholder management and interpersonal skills at both a technical and non-technical level. • Able to work in a collaborative environment • Understanding the importance of real business engagement in all stages of IT product life-cycle working in both waterfall and agile delivery methodologies • Good critical reasoning and problem solving skills – sticks to the problem until it is resolved • Customer-orientated, whether responding to support queries or developing new functionality Experience • Strong hands on experience on Oracle SOA Suite, BPEL, OSB, Java/JEE, Web Services, SOAP, REST, WSDL, XSD, XML, JSON, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, JMS, SoapUI etc. • Experience with system design, configuration, customization, integration, testing and support • Experience with large Full Life Cycle project implementations • Experience of setting, refining and implementing technical standards • Experience in defining and leading technical development of projects • • Experience within a customer focused environment • Experience of modern software engineering techniques e.g. o Test-Driven Development (TDD) o Continuous Integration (CI) o Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) o Consumption and production of Application programming interfaces (API’s) o Version Control Systems (Subversion / GIT) o SSL o Code validation and quality analysis o Monitoring As a group, the companies business success is built on a number of strengths: size and global reach, financial strength, talented employees, time-honoured values, our approach to sustainability and continuous drive to innovate. Combined, these strengths form a unique platform for the organisation’s continued success and future growth