IBM Architect

Skills

Description

• Good understanding of modern Ops techniques and their inclusion in Integration Design.
• Exposure to SCM, GitOps, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, UCD, UCR etc.
• Good knowledge of application monitoring tools like, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus etc.

Responsibilities

• Integration Architect will be responsible to manage the coordination, planning and design of integrations between MSK’s internal and external platforms, products, applications, and IT components. She/ He will ensure intra-system exchanges are secure, scalable, following best practices & patterns, appropriately deployed, and evolving as integration technology advances.
• Primary job responsibilities will include -
• • Supporting enterprise and solution architects and project/product managers in matching technology services to specific business outcomes, provisioning estimates, developing overall implementation plans and articulating the tradeoffs, benefits, and risks of integration architecture solutions.
• • Providing cohesive integration architecture expertise throughout the organization. Educating and guiding engineers in the vision and use cases of specific solutions.
• • Resolving technical and business queries and deriving functional and non-functional integration requirements
• • Conducting gap analyses, defining priority use cases based on gaps, and identifying right integration patterns.
• • Designing current and target state architectures in collaboration with practice SMEs and solution stakeholders
• • Developing, demonstrating, and publishing generic representation of deployable integration patterns, implementation procedures and integration best practices
• • Maintaining the inventory of communications and data flows and providing overviews of the connections between systems
• • Mentoring integration engineering and architecture teams in requirements analysis, agile design practices, modern development processes & tools, and effective testing strategies

Educational Requirements

• • Extensive design/working experience with confluent Kafka based solutions.
• • Deep understanding of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access management (ACL)
• • Experience in designing high availability clusters and utilize Kafka APIs in integration solutions.
• • Exposure to Confluent Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, Kafka SQL, schema registry/Avro schemas.
• • Experience with Kafka Connect distributed setup, configuration, and design of Kafka source/sink connectors & simple message transforms.
• • Exposure with Kafka Producer/Consumer Microservices concepts in Java Spring Boot and Kafka distributed Architecture
• • Expert in Kafka topic design, data pipeline setup with Kafka connects (e.g. CDC)
• • Experience with Kafka Structured query language (KSQL), prepare queries, Left/Right/Inner joins.
• • Aware of performance tuning techniques for high throughput and high availability Confluent Kafka in container environment

Additional Requirements

• • Candidate must have hands on tool/design experience with API based integration architectures, micro services design and good knowledge of integration patterns and Agile Integration techniques.
• • Experience in Modeling & Transformations techniques (UML, Data Modeling, Schema Mapping)
• • Exposure to healthcare standard (HL7, FHIR, EDI) interoperability designs and message models
• • Experience in designing orchestration and choreography-based integrations.
• • Experience and knowledge of SSO, OAuth, Open ID, and SAML 2.0.
• • Aware of OOAD and SAFe Methodology
• • Deep understanding of Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4i), Open Shift Platform, Container Management, and their design aspects
• • Good knowledge on IBM Integration products, IBM API Connect, IBM App Connect Enterprise, SOAP and REST based Web services and database concepts (RDBMS and No-SQL Database)
• • Extensive experience in SOAP and RESTful API designs following Open API specifications.