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.