Sr Middleware Engineer

Senior Middleware Engineer

OPPD will consider applicants who require visa sponsorship for this position.

The Senior Middleware Engineer supports OPPD's mission by leading the design, development, and administration of enterprise middleware platforms. In this role, you partner closely with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, and IT teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable integrations across internal and cloud applications. You oversee OPPD's middleware technologies, including Axway and Mule Soft, while guiding technical strategy, platform governance, and ongoing improvements that enable seamless data and system connectivity.

• Lead the daily administration, configuration, and oversight of OPPD's middleware platforms.
• Participate in all phases of Application Delivery including requirements analysis, technical design, prototyping, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Influence architectural decisions and integration patterns through active participation in technical design discussions.
• Advance the development and enhancement of existing integrations while guiding the evolution of the middleware ecosystem.
• Formalize, document, and enforce enterprise integration best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand business needs and guide deployment architecture such as cloud, hybrid, or on premises solutions.

• Provide knowledge transfer to peers, QA teams, and support teams to ensure issues are effectively understood and resolved.
• Troubleshoot and debug incidents at both the platform and integration layers.
• Participate in on call rotation supporting break/fix activities and leading troubleshooting as needed.
• Ensure incident response and resolution activities align with established expectations.

• Balance multiple projects, operational tasks, and competing priorities while maintaining high quality delivery.
• Lead and support upgrade efforts for middleware and integration platforms.
• Coordinate planning activities with architecture, engineering, and project teams to ensure alignment and readiness.

• Ensure project teams remain aligned with architectural direction, scope, quality expectations, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand business requirements, define thresholds, and create action plans and runbooks.
• Monitor and guide technical work to ensure consistency with initial design and established integration patterns.
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance to developers and integration engineers.

Your work will ensure OPPD's middleware platforms operate with stability, transparency, and efficiency. By guiding integration strategy, resolving complex issues, and mentoring engineers, you will help teams deliver high quality solutions that improve operational readiness, accelerate delivery, and support the success of enterprise technology initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive software engineering experience with advanced integration design using modern middleware technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture and web service technologies including XML, SOAP, WSDL, XSD, and REST.
• Deep understanding of database programming, JDBC, and relational databases such as SQL Server and Oracle.
• Strong experience in security, logging, auditing, policy management, performance monitoring, and KPI development.
• Experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns and canonical model development.
• Hands on experience with Bitbucket/Git, IBM RTC, Subversion, or TFS.
• Proficiency with Java and Groovy.
• Experience working in agile, iterative, and waterfall environments including CI/CD pipeline development.
• Working knowledge of Windows, Outlook, Office, Active Directory, and Exchange.
• Familiarity with QA processes and test driven development.

• Experience supporting large scale integration initiatives with diverse data sets.
• Working knowledge of server architecture, configuration, and management.
• Familiarity with SharePoint, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Interest in learning and applying new technologies.
• Proficiency with Managed File Transfer platforms.
• Advanced experience designing and developing integrations.
• Experience with Anypoint Platform, Data Weave, and API Management.

EOE:
Protected Veterans/Disability