Description
Background: You will be join The Distributed Middleware and Frameworks team as a Technical Domain Owner (TDO) of this Brussels based international bank. The team is responsible for the design, implementation, delivery, maintenance, and support of the integration layer between operating systems and business applications. This integration layer consists not only of Middleware technologies and products, but also of frameworks, which are in-house developments and guidelines ensuring security, availability, operability, recoverability, and scalability of the solutions.
The team focuses on the Middleware and frameworks technologies that are specific to distributed environments, covering a broad range of technologies and platforms (eg IIS and COM+ on Windows, frameworks developed in VB6, VB .Net, C++, Java, running either on Windows or on Linux/AIX platforms).
The team contributes to the support of the Production environment (2nd and 3rd level) for the technologies in its scope and has several watch duties organized per sub-domain.
In particular, the team is playing a key role in the design, implementation, delivery, and integration of a B2B/B2C information exchange solution in the context of a common communication interface for which it is currently delivering a broad range of new technologies (Application Firewall, message filtering, message gateway, web Application Server, transaction gateway, SOAP and AS/2, including development in C++ and in Java). Furthermore, the team is also involved in a large number of smaller projects, and more specifically you will review the design of the new business solutions, identify the potential needs for new or adapted Middleware and frameworks, and provide support to business application developers.
You will be responsible for the coherence and evolution of a group of technical components belonging to the distributed domain or a generic concept required by the different business domains. ie. you will deliver the overall architecture roadmap of your technical domain.
Tasks for the TDO:
- Defining an overall availability/business continuity strategy and approach for his domain;
- Defining the technical security standards for his domain;
- Ensuring his domain can be monitored from a capacity and performance perspective;
- Ensuring licensing guidelines are defined and well understood by the respective product owners; coaching the Product Owners when applicable.
- Driving for an optimisation of the product portfolio in his domain;
- responsible for budget for his domain;
- Delivering the technology plan(s) for the domain (possibly with the collaboration of various Product Owners);
- ensure migration initiatives on products in team scope do get budgeted and planned in line with the technology plans, ensuring optimisation of the IT platform portfolio. Contribute to Roadmap proposals.
- Make sure team proactively provides architecture recommendations and guidelines to improve performance and cost effectiveness of solutions being deployed, migrated, or updated. Seek improvements in monitoring/diagnostic tools for the products in team scope, aiming at increasing service level.
Essential Skills:
- technical project management in IT;
- understand technically the Middleware and Frameworks domain. This requires hands-on experience in:
- Application Servers/Transaction monitors: IIS, COM+, WAS;
- Windows platform (Windows Server Operating System, .NET4, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, IIS, COM+, COMTI, SQL, IBM WebSphere MQSeries, DB2 Gateways, MS Host Integration Server, Citrix, Active Directory, LDAP, DFS, ...);
- Unix platform (AIX and RedHat Operating Systems, DataStageTX, WebSphere MQ Series);
- Network ( DMZ, CSM, ACE, Firewall, routing);
- HTTP(s), SSL, TCP/IP, AS2;
- C++ and .NET strong analysis and development experience (at least 5 years);
- Practical experience with .NET4 technologies like WCF, WIF, MVC3, LINQ;
- Team Foundation Server - usage and implementation experience;
- Configuration Management;
- Experience in negotiating solutions with vendors and external Partners;
- Effective coaching: the TDOs must bring his/her strategic vision and expertise to the Product Owners by coaching on the shop floor.
- Knowledge of infrastructure (DCS, SAN, Production, Pre-Production, PIE, Test, Development);
- Experience in technical development (eg C, C++, Java), development life cycle and methodology, development tooling.
- Microsoft Certified Professional or equivalent certification in other Distributed domain.
Language: English. Also some French or Dutch will be a plus.