JOB DESCRIPTION:

• The Virginia Department of Transportation’s Information Technology Division is seeking a team member to function as an IIB Technical Architect and Lead Developer. The team member is responsible to lead the team in process improvement, standardization and provide technical solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Deep understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts
• Familiarity with SOA governance including service versioning
• At least 8 years of experience using WebSphere Message Broker / IBM Integration Bus,WebSphere ESB, WebSphere MQ concepts , Infrastructure related requirements for WMB/IIB
• Experience with using IIB/WMB in a SOA solutions and API solutions
• At least 8 years of experience with web services and RESTful Services (JSON and XML); several years using WMB/WESB/IIB
• At least 8 years of experience with XML and XML Schema. Deep understanding of XML schema concepts and XPath.
• Familiarity with IBM middleware tools including WSRR and Datapower
• Expert level experience working with Message Sets, various IIB nodes, mediations and mediation flows.
• Experience with creating, performance tuning, and troubleshooting message flows
• Experience in developing software using agile methodologies.

SKILL MATRIX:

• Deep understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts - Required - 10Years .
• Familiarity with SOA governance including service versioning - Required - 10Years
• Expertise using WebSphere Message Broker / IBM Integration Bus, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere MQ concepts, Infrastructure related - Required - 10Years
• Experience with using IIB/WMB in a SOA solutions and API solutions - Required - 10Years
• At least 8 years of experience with web services and RESTful Services (JSON and XML); several years using WMB/WESB/IIB - Required - 8Years
• At least 8 years of experience with XML and XML Schema. Deep understanding of XML schema concepts and XPath- Required - 8Years
• Expert level experience working with Message Sets, various IIB nodes, mediations and mediation flows - Required - 8Years
• Experience with creating, performance tuning, and troubleshooting message flows- Required - 8Years
• Experience in developing software using agile methodologies- Required- 5Years
• Familiarity with IBM middleware tools including WSRR and Datapower - Nice to have- 5Years
• Experience in API management, ETL, MFT skills - Desired - 8Years
  Job Type: Contract
  Pay: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour
  Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Richmond, VA 2321

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Able to lead a team and provide technical guidance.
• Lead technical team in executing projects, provide solutions and estimate the work.
• Lead development, implementation and maintenance of ESB
• Create Service Specifications describing the input and output interfaces for the service, as well as its security, editing and interface protocol requirements
• Lead development activities implementing solutions including developer setup, deployment, build and release, packaging and configuring the environment
• Design and develop different types of services and exposing them for all business domains in the SOA environment
• Create SOA Design standards and best practices for object naming, design & deployments, data & content integration and production output using various channels
• Design services to wrap Third party software, exposing functionality to store/retrieve/archive/manage information in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment
• Model services describing the service layers in the desired business domain
• Help establish the build and release process around integration and SOA solutions