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A senior-level integration architect to support VDOT's move to IBM's Integration Bus
This position is a hands-on architecture role for VDOT's effort to move toward enterprise service bus implementation. The primary duties include:
1. Lead development,  implementation and maintenance of ESB2. Create Service Specifications describing the input and output interfaces for the service, as well as its security, editing and interface protocol requirements 3. Lead development activities implementing solutions including developer setup, deployment, build and release, packaging and configuring the environment 4. Design and develop different types of services and exposing them for all business domains in the SOA environment.5. Create SOA Design standards and best practices for object naming, design & deployments, data & content integration and production output using various channels 6. Design services to wrap Third party software, exposing functionality to store/retrieve/archive/manage information in a 7. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment 8. Write and document enterprise level SOA standards, best practices and patterns. 9. Model services describing the service layers in the desired business domain10. Help establish the build and release process around integration and SOA solutions 

SkillRequired / DesiredAmountof ExperienceDeep understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) conceptsRequired10YearsFamiliarity with SOA governance including service versioningRequired10YearsExpertise using WebSphere Message Broker / IBM Integration Bus,WebSphere ESB, WebSphere MQ concepts , Infrastructure related requRequired10YearsExperience with using IIB/WMB in a SOA solutions and API solutionsRequired10YearsAt least 10 years of experience with web services and RESTful Services (JSON and XML); several years using WMB/WESB/IIBRequired10YearsAt least 10 years of experience with XML and XML Schema. Deep understanding of XML schema concepts and XPath.Required10YearsFamiliarity with IBM middleware tools including WSRR and DatapowerRequired10YearsExpert level experience working with Message Sets, various IIB nodes, mediations and mediation flows.Required10YearsExperience with creating, performance tuning, and troubleshooting message flowsRequired10YearsExperience in developing software using agile methodologies.Required10Years