As an Integration Engineer, you will play a vital role in designing, implementing, and maintaining integration solutions that connect various applications, systems, and services within the organization. In a banking or enterprise environment, this role is critical to ensuring seamless communication and data flow between disparate systems, enabling business processes to run efficiently and reliably.
Key Accountabilities
- Designing Integration Architecture: Analyze business requirements to create integration solutions using the ESB that are scalable, reliable and re-usable.
- Development of Integration Solutions: Build and configure APIs and messaging components to facilitate communication between systems that are secure, compliant and optimized for performance.
- System Connectivity: Work closely with other stakeholders within the Bank and other partners to ensure reliable system connectivity (e.g., IT-Security, IT Infrastructure, and external parties like KRA, IPRS, Safaricom, IPSL, and various B2B partners working with the Bank).
- Security and Compliance: Ensure data flowing through the ESB adheres to organizational and regulatory security standards (e.g., encryption, authentication, and authorization) and implement compliance requirements such as GDPR, PCI DSS, or AML for data handling and communication protocols.
- Continuous Improvement and Optimization: Optimize integration processes for performance and scalability, and enhance existing integration components to improve maintainability and reduce costs.
- Collaboration: Work closely with developers, architects, and business analysts to understand requirements and deliver integration solutions; collaborate with DevOps and IT operations teams to deploy and maintain ESB solutions, and liaise with vendors and third-party service providers to integrate external systems or troubleshoot integration issues.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience in ESB/SOA technologies (e.g., Apache Camel, IBM App Connect, Tibco, Oracle SOA, Tibco EMS, Apache Active MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, ISO-8583, ISO20022, REST JSON, SOAP/XML).
- Proven experience working in a fast-paced integration environment, preferably within the banking or financial services sector.
- Experience in documenting ESB services, including the ability to write comprehensive Service Mapping Documents (SMD) and Service Design Documents (SDD).
- Experience working with API Gateways such as WSO2, Apigee, and IBM API Connect, including configuration, deployment, and lifecycle management of APIs.
- 5+ years’ experience in a busy software development environment.
- Experience with building and consuming APIs (e.g., REST, SOAP, GraphQL).
- Experience securing APIs (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, TLS/SSL).
- Proficiency in languages like Java, Python, Node.js, C#, or Go.
- Familiarity with DevOps tools for CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
Competencies
- Programming Languages
- Software Design and Architecture
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Databases and Data Management
- Version Control Systems
- Testing and Debugging
- Software Development Frameworks
- Cloud and DevOps
- Networking and Security
- Operating Systems and Environment Management
- Development Tools
- Documentation and Communication Tools
