ESB/SOA/Kafka Developer – AMP

ESB/SOA/Kafka Developer

  • Location: Crystal City, VA
  • Clearance: Active or Interim DoD Secret
  • Certification: SAFe Certified Agilist certification within 90 days of start date
    • Other SAFe certifications will be allowed in place of the SAFe Agilist.
      • SAFe Scrum Master
      • SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
      • SAFe Release Train Engineer
      • SAFe Architect
      • SAFe Practice Consultant
  • Working Schedule and Hours:
    • We are giving the highest consideration to candidates who reside in the DMV.
    • If a candidate resides outside the DMV they must agree to work the hours required by the contract which are EST and all candidates must be amenable to travel to the DMV, at their own expense, on an average of once every 4-6 weeks for up to a week.
    • Work on this contract is 5 days a week, 40 hours a week, EST hours.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Implement, configure and maintain Oracle ESB and Confluent Kafka.
  • The ESB/SOA Developer will support the design of web services to support PeopleSoft HCM implementation, as well as the design, development and implementation of the messaging and stream processing architectures built on the Confluent version of Kafka.
  • Will lead and participate in Agile SAFe meetings providing the necessary definition and guidance to ensure ESB is correctly installed, configured, tested, and deployed, and the Kafka solution supports the program’s data exchange requirements.
  • Develop technical solutions to business challenges and functional requirements
  • Create, update and edit functional and technical design specifications and solutions to satisfy project requirements
  • Interpret requirements, perform complex analyses and present options and recommendations to obtain desired results
  • Support and independently own tasks related to design and development of messaging and stream processing tasks
  • Conduct Unit testing and resolve issues found in testing
  • Meet deadlines and manage multiple, dynamic priorities
  • Provide overall technical and logistical support to the program
  • The successful candidate will be fluent with a variety of data models from business systems planning and data requirements planning
  • The candidate must understand in detail the integration of Oracle ESB with the components of PeopleSoft Integration Broker, MQ and OAM/OID
  • The candidate must have recent, hands-on experience with the setting up and configuration of Kafka brokers, Kafka Connector, Zookeeper, and schema registry
  • Experience with messaging and stream processing architectures built on the Confluent version of Kafka
  • Recent experience with pipelining, xQuery, and xPath
  • Recent experience with KSQL
  • Knowledge and experience with clustering and high availability Kafka configurations
  • Experience configuring Kafka Security
  • Experience setting up monitoring and management for Kafka
  • Knowledge and experience with installation, configuration and maintenance of Oracle Enterprise Service Bus environments on NIPR and SIPR
  • Setup and integration of ESB with various components of the system like PeopleSoft Integration Broker, MQ and OAM/OID
  • Ability to collaborate with ETL development team to define message queues, nodes, binding rules and routings
  • Ability to work closely with DBAs, ETL/ PeopleSoft Dev teams, and Security Team to improve performance and data quality
  • Ability to work in an Agile SAFe team

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or Mathematics
  • 10-12 years of experience in the Information Technology field with an emphasis on large-scale ERP systems
  • 3+ years of experience with Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka
  • 5+ years of experience with Data Integrations
  • 6+ years of strong experience with enterprise service bus technologies, to include design, installation, configuration and testing; Oracle ESB/SOA/MFT preferred
  • Proven track record of successful deployment of ESBs from requirements gathering through implementation
  • Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple, dynamic priorities
  • Active or Interim DoD Secret clearance 
  • Must have SAFe Certified Agilist certification within 90 days of start date

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience with Ab Initio ETL Platform (plans, graphs, psets, meta-programming, etc.)
  • Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner and success working in Agile Product Teams (APTs)
  • Experience as a data modeler and/or data architect
  • Experience with DoDAF Artifacts
  • Experience with existing Army Pay and Human Resources data and systems
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with a strong focus on customer service and solution ownership
  • Active DoD Secret Clearance
  • SAFe Agilist certified

For more information please Contact Us Or send an email to HR@rmantras.com