Your Responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements, existing systems, and integration interfaces, including SWIFT message processing
- Design, develop, test, and deploy message flows on IBM AppConnect Enterprise (ACE)
- Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of production issues related to ESB services
- Produce technical documentation (integration design, configuration and deployment procedures, user guides)
- Provide support and maintenance for IBM ACE, IBM Transformation Extender (ITX), IBM MQ, and WSO2 Micro-Integrator on Linux
- Monitor performance, availability, and health of ESB infrastructure and services
- Coordinate issue resolution with middleware vendor support teams
- Perform middleware patching and upgrades
- Participate in failover and disaster recovery testing
- Automate manual processes using Ansible and Azure DevOps pipelines
Profile
Education:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering (or equivalent experience)
Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of experience in similar roles
Required Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of IBM AppConnect Enterprise (ACE)
- Good knowledge of IBM Transformation Extender (ITX)
- Expertise in IBM MQ
- Knowledge of WSO2 Micro-Integrator
- Experience with SWIFT message processing (MT and MX formats)
- Strong skills in data transformation (XSLT, eSQL, ESB tools)
- Good understanding of messaging systems and protocols (MQ, SFTP, SOAP, REST)
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, C#)
- Knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms (OAuth, WS-Security, certificates)
- Good SQL knowledge
- Experience with troubleshooting tools (Bash, Python, SOAP UI, Postman)
- Familiarity with DevOps tools (Git, Jira, Azure DevOps, Splunk, ELK)
Functional & Operational Skills
- Ability to analyze complex systems and understand integration needs
- Develop and customize integration interfaces using IBM ACE and IBM MQ
- Work with messaging systems, protocols, and standards
- Handle SWIFT messages within application flows
- Apply best practices for designing message flows
- Implement security mechanisms in flows (OAuth, WS-Security, certificate-based authentication)
- Administer and troubleshoot IBM ACE and IBM MQ environments
- Perform automation, monitoring, and log analysis using specialized tools
Why join us?
Join a challenging and stimulating technical environment where you will work on critical integration platforms at the heart of information systems. You will contribute to high-value projects involving recognized technologies and strong operational challenges (performance, reliability, security). You will evolve within experienced teams, with real autonomy and continuous learning opportunities.
Opportunities are numerous. From bare applications development to of IT infrastructures management including conception, architecture and requirements analysis.
Although open to technologies used by our customers, ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS seeks mainly but not only consultants mastering: Windows and Linux Servers, networks, developments (JAVA, SAP, .NET,…) as well as highly specialized experts for example in cybersecurity or in Content Management System (CMS) (SharePoint, Drupal, WebLogic…).
In terms of non-technical competencies, ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS hires dynamic persons, open to the world, interested by innovation and having a keen sense of client relationship.
A very good command of English is essential, the capacity to speak French, German or Dutch is an asset.
Even though most of our positions require at least 3 years of experience, some are open to new starters.
