Integration Architect

Company Description

Alter Solutions Benelux is an IT Consultancy Company, promoter of Digital Transformation, part of the Alter Solutions Group, created in 2006, in Paris. 

In 2022, Alter Solutions joined the act digital group, constituting a global community of talent in Technology, with presence in twelve countries: Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, Morocco, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Serbia. In 2022, we were also certified as a Great Place to Work®.

In the Benelux region, we partner with over 20 clients and a team of over 50 people, working in projects for industries as diverse as banking, insurance, transportation, aviation, energy, and telecom.

Know more about Life at Alter: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alter-solutions-group/life/altersolutionsgroup

Job Description

Context of the mission :

• The integration of applications, partners and packages plays a growing role. We are developing 
• more and more API and more and more asynchronous flows. Additionally, we’ll have to migrate out of the Biztalk infrastructure.
• Standardization is important to ensure efficient and qualitative project development and monitoring. We need therefore clear solutions, governance, and monitoring.
• The Integration DCoE team is responsible to define the standards, study new integration technologies, define patterns and common solutions. In collaboration with the “delivery” teams, we are owner of the technologies and manage the supporting platforms & frameworks like, f.i. Sentinet (API gateway), Azure ServiceBus, Azure EventHub, Azure LogicApps.
• The Integration DCoE works also on the architecture of the complex integrations that can involve different departments of our client.
• Collaboration with various people, with different profile is key.
• Our client is actively looking for an integration architect to join its IT Integration DCoE team. The work will go from the definition of solution in projects to documentation of guidelines, recommendations, and expertise in Azure.

Mission period:

• Expected Start date: Asap
• Duration: 12 months (Depending on project evolution, extension is possible)

Objective of the job :

• Candidate will collaborate on projects of various sizes in a transversal team. As an integration team member, 
• candidate is in contact with many different IT teams. A very good collaboration skill is therefore key.
• Maintain & promote Integration patterns & platforms
• participate in internal improvements tracks to increase industrialization of our processes
• participate to overall integration patrimony/assets documentation & quality, Functional 
• Architecture Asset maintenance (update catalogs & description of services & batch available in the domain) Integration development projects
• understand the functional aspects and the bigger picture of an integration project
• analyse and decompose complex requirements
• provide a detailed integration design according to our client's standards
• Integration flowchart
• Interface/messages definition
• Mappings
• work in close collaboration with the integration & domain architects following his recommendations & global architecture
• provide detailed input & support the integration developer during implementation phase 
• Single Point Of Contact for the Test phase of the project, is able to identify scope changes & to fix defects with the developer 
• work in close collaboration with other integration project stakeholders (project leaders, analysts, business owners, etc) and proactively propose actions when needed
• communicate progress on ongoing activities 
• validate that the implemented solution is up to specifications (functional & non-functional)
• provide support on the implemented solution by using our tools (first troubleshooting/analysis in case of incident)

Qualifications

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Personal Skills (soft skills - intangible qualities or traits that enhance our interactions)

Mandatory :

• Analytical skills
• Collaboration skills:
• Must be a self-starter
• Work well independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Strong communication skills
• Pro-active and flexible
• Written capabilities for documentation writing
• Solution driven / Pragmatic
• Capacity to adapt to the client environment

Preferable

• Experience in large IT Organisation > 100 person
• Business experience required (work experience)
• Mandatory Years : Senior (5-8years)
• Document review
• Documenting functional specifications
• Working knowledge of data modelling (interface definition, business data model, data model mapping)
• Experience on projects with integration aspects
• Experience as a software/application developer (specifically on web, workflow services or batch systems 
• Experience in testing (preparation & execution test scenario)
• Experience in insurance or financial domain.
• Experience on projects with integration aspects with packages or external solutions, or different technology platforms)
• Technical experience required (hard skills related to physical or digital tools)
• Mandatory Years
• Azure Integration Services and applicable patterns
• Knowledge of .Net (framework, 6+)
• Good knowledge of REST /JSON
• Good knowledge of database concepts (DB, ETL, SQL)
• Mid-level (2 y - 5 y)

Preferable

• General technical knowledge (HTTP, certificates, SOAP / XML)
• Functional experience required (job experience in particular industry and in particular 
• function)
• Mandatory Years
• Good knowledge and experience of most common integration patterns 
• (mapping, orchestration, security, gateway etc)
• Experience in integration workflow design (Business Project)
• Experience in Functional asset maintenance (Functional domain)
• Senior (5 y - 8 y)
• Impact analysis & identification of Non-Regression Testing needs 
• Experience with Document Management Systems
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 Language requirement

• English : Fluent
• Dutch : Good
• French Good

 Localisation

• Brussels centre.

Additional Information

Instructions to suppliers :

• We remind you that all “mandatory” topics MUST be encountered. They are criteria of exclusion if the minimum level required is not reached.
• All information must be submitted following the required format explained in the weekly mail