Lead Middleware Integration Engineer

Our client are one of the most reputable banks in Kuwait who are seeking an experienced Lead Middleware Integration Engineer to join their team. The successful candidate will take a leadership role in designing services based on various standards for REST, web services, data integration techniques, messaging, transformation engines, and non-standard services (APIs). As a lead member of their technology team, you will support code deployments, present architecture and design proposals to stakeholders, mentor software engineers, define capacity and performance testing strategies, and ensure seamless middleware integration while maintaining the highest delivery quality attributes.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design services based on different standards for REST, web services, data integration techniques, messaging, transformation engines, and non-standard services (APIs).
• Support code deployments and configuration changes to production and non-production systems, following established procedures.
• Present architecture and design proposals to necessary stakeholders as required.
• Maintain a working knowledge of Service Bus platforms, JEE frameworks, and API-related activities, such as requirement analysis, solution architecture and design, resource-based API modeling, and microservices architecture.
• Lead software engineers towards solution delivery.
• Define capacity and performance testing strategies and drive execution to provide recommendations based on facts and drive down costs.
• Ensure strong understanding of business processes and handle day-to-day aspects of middleware integration, including troubleshooting and system maintenance.
• Utilize standards and frameworks such as JAXB, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JPA, Spring, Hibernate, JMS, MQ, and JDBC for effective integration solutions.
• Hands-on experience with JDeveloper, various adapters (file, FTP, JCA, MQ), XQuery, XPath, XSLT, and different types of messaging types and protocols.
• Ensure adherence to Industry Standard Web security, OWASP, and API Security Mechanisms.
• Strong experience with databases such as MS SQL and Oracle.
• Provide strong leadership skills to the team.
• Design, develop, support, architect, and maintain Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite SOA/OSB Applications.
• Develop solution designs for assigned initiatives.
• Lead and follow-up on assigned tasks from inception to completion.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Certified professional in Java, JEE, or Service Bus preferred for this role.
• 8+ years of experience in information technology building enterprise-scale internet/customer-facing systems.
• 4+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Proficiency in Java/JEE, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Service Bus, Spring Boot.
• Experience in developing SOAP and REST APIs/Webservices.
• Strong understanding of the banking industry or financial services.
• Preferred experience in microservices architecture and its supporting technologies and frameworks.

You have the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment within one of Kuwait’s leading banks. If you are a driven and experienced Middleware Integration Engineer with strong leadership skills and a passion for excellence, we encourage you to apply.

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