ISL R - Senior Middleware Specialist

Position: ISL 27R - Senior Middleware Specialist
About the BCLDB:
The BC Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) is one of two branches of government that provide oversight for the beverage alcohol and non-medical cannabis industries in the province. The LDB is responsible for the wholesale distribution of liquor and cannabis, and operates the retails brands BCLIQUOR and BC Cannabis Stores.
The LDB is committed to government’s goals of making life better for people in B.C., improving services, and ensuring a sustainable province for future generations. The revenue generated by the LDB helps fund essential public services like health care, education, and community programming. Learn more on the  LDB careers page.
The LDB’s Information Technology (IT) team consists of six competency areas:
Enterprise Systems (from infrastructure to application portfolio management), Customer Experience, Enterprise Architecture, Data Analytics & Governance, Software Engineering, and Information Security. These five divisions managed by IT Directors collectively are responsible for all of the six competency areas to deliver the IT mandate of supporting LDB’s corporate and business operations and enabling future needs and initiatives.
At present, the IT team consists of more than 200 full-time employees and includes a sourcing strategy to leverage external expertise to ensure the integrated IT team continues to deliver LDB’s strategic initiatives timely and in high quality.
Key systems in use by the LDB include Infrastructure and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems which support our head office, BC Liquor Stores, and BC Cannabis Stores, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Warehouse Management (WMS) systems which support over 25,000 suppliers of liquor, cannabis products as well as 2,000 wholesale customers and 10,000 hospitality customers.

About this role:

Reporting to the Manager, Database & Middleware, the Senior Middleware Specialist is responsible for providing the Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) with expert technical direction and leadership concerning development, enhancement, installation, and maintenance of the organization’s mission critical Middleware portfolio (Jboss Middleware, Wildfly, Oracle OSB, Oracle SOA and Fusion Middleware etc.). The position also contributes to LDB’s application architecture and enterprise architecture by providing and maintaining a middleware strategy.
A criminal record check is required.
This role may be required to work shift work and to be on standby. Overtime may be required to meet deadlines.
For complete details about this opportunity, including accountabilities, please refer to the attached job description, also located in the Additional Information section at the bottom of the posting.
An eligibility list for permanent or temporary future opportunities may be established.
Position requirements:

Education and Experience:

A degree or diploma in information technology, computer science or related field with a minimum of three (3) years of recent, related experience*.
OR
A combination of recent related experience and education may be considered, i.e., five (5) years of recent, related experience
* with formal courses and/or certificates in information technology, computer science or related field.
OR
Secondary (high) school diploma with a minimum of seven (7) years of recent, related experience*.

* Recent, related experience is defined as occurring in the last seven (7) years and requires experience with the following:
Progressive experience in middleware engineering, integration, or enterprise systems architecture.

Experience with relational databases, such as, Oracle, SQL Server or Postgre

SQL.

Experience with Unix/Linux environments, preferably Red Hat Linux.
Preference may be given to candidates with any of the following:

Experience with Microsoft Azure Administration.

Experience with service bus technology, i.e., Mulesoft, OSB (Oracle Service Bus), etc.

Experience with Application Servers such as, Wildfly, Tomcat, Web Logic or JBoss.

Experience with Apache.

Experience with Service Oriented Architecture.

Experience with Enterprise Service Bus.

Experience with application fail-over strategy.

Experience with patching and upgrade Middleware,…