The Middleware Officer is responsible for administering, configuring, monitoring, maintaining, and supporting the organisation's middleware platforms and integration environments.
The role ensures the availability, performance, security, and reliability of middleware services that facilitate seamless communication and integration between applications, systems, databases, and external platforms.
Duties & Responsibilities
Administer, configure, monitor, and maintain middleware platforms and integration environments to ensure optimal performance and availability.
Monitor middleware services, APIs, message queues, and interfaces to identify and resolve performance and availability issues proactively.
Troubleshoot middleware-related incidents, integration failures, and system errors, including conducting root-cause analysis and implementing preventive measures.
Support the deployment, configuration, upgrades, patching, and migration of middleware platforms across development, testing, and production environments.
Manage and support integrations between internal applications, external systems, financial institutions, partners, and third-party service providers.
Implement and maintain middleware security configurations, access controls, certificates, authentication mechanisms, and related security requirements.
Support capacity planning, performance tuning, system optimisation, and continuous improvement of middleware platforms and services.
Collaborate with Application Development, Infrastructure, Database, Information Security, and other Technology teams to deliver effective integration solutions.
Participate in incident, problem, change, release management, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities relating to middleware platforms.
Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures, engage vendors where required, and drive automation and process improvements across middleware operations.
Job Requirements
Education:
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Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience:
5 - 8 years of relevant professional experience in middleware administration, application integration, systems integration, platform engineering, or a related technology environment.
Experience working within a financial services, fintech, payments, banking, telecommunications, or similarly transaction-intensive environment, & Relevant professional certifications in middleware, cloud, DevOps, systems administration, or related technologies will be an advantage.
Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps practices, version control, and automated deployment processes.