Java SOA Architect

Description

DOL requires assistance to work within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support DOL critical SOA applications and services.  This includes maintaining current applications that could cross over multiple program areas.

Duties 

• Business Object Models (business entities/objects and their relationships).
• Service Models describing the service layers in the desired business domain.
• Service Specifications describing the input and output interfaces for the service, as well as its security, editing and interface protocol requirements.
• eXtensible Markup Language (XML) interfaces and files.
• XML Schema Definitions (XSDs).
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) files.
• Writing and documenting enterprise level SOA standards, best practices and patterns.
  Specific activities include:
• Guide architecture activities implementing Design solutions including Infrastructure design, installation, configuration and implementation for High availability/fault tolerant integrated solution.
• Creating SOA Design standards and best practices for object naming, design & deployments, data & content integration and production output using various channels.
• Designing services to wrap Third party software, exposing functionality to store/retrieve/archive/manage information in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment.
• Use of IBM’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) tools: WebSphere Process Server (WPS)/Business.
• Process Manager (BPM), WebSphere Integration Developer (WID)/IBM Integration Designer (IID), and Rational Software Architect (RSA) to create SOA design artifacts for composite application development teams.

Mandatory Requirements 

• Experience (10+ Years)
• Makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. Designs multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of a large scale software system.

Requirements 

• This is an 100% Onsite
• 60 months of enterprise architecture experience in Java-based SOA solutions including setting organizational direction in application design, infrastructure and integration layer design, installation, configuration, implementation and documentation of complex systems.
• 84 months experience designing services to wrap APIs (application programming interfaces) to service enable as a component and/or web service consumable by a customer application through standard/secure interfaces.  The interfaces may include but are not limited to: SOAP; REST with JSON payload; Local and Remote EJBS, SCA, etc.
• 36 months experience using IBM’s WebSphere  to support end to end Business Process Management (this toolset includes; Business Modeler (WBM), WebSphere Rational Application Developer (RAD), WebSphere  Application Server (WAS) WebSphere Process Server (WPS), WebSphere Integration Developer (WID), and Rational Software Architect (RSA - including the generation of Service Models, Service Classification Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams)
• 36 months experience using IBM’s ESB tools: WebSphere Message Broker (WMB), WPS and DataPower for data mapping/transformation and message flows/routing.
• 36 months experience importing models from WBM into WID and RSA, and implementing service orchestration using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
• SOA Architect Certification
• Résumé
• Copy of Candidate Identification(i.e., Driver’s License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications(i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)