Advisor, Applications Development

We are seeking an experienced B2Bi Integration Advisor with strong expertise in Axway B2Bi, Axway Gateway Interchange, IBM ITX, API Management, and Linux. The role is mainly responsible for managing the 10+ member team in software development life cycle, to understand the requirements, analyze, research the solution, design, development, testing, implementation, support and maintenance of B2Bi Integrations for enterprise customers, ensuring secure and reliable data exchange between internal systems and external trading partners. 

• Produce Daily and Weekly reports to IT Management about team member work assignments, status reports on B2Bi service requests. 

• Assign the work task, assist with the schedule roaster setup, monitor the deliverables from the team, assist them in providing training, arrange cross training across the team members to meet company’s strategy and goals.

• Develop, enhance, and maintain backend services using IBM ITX Design Studio, Command, Launcher services and Design Server.

• Participate in discussions with stakeholders to understand user requirements and conduct comprehensive requirements analysis.

• Design, integrate and implement business logic following secure coding principles to avoid security vulnerabilities.

• Assist in solution design, development, and configuration while carrying out static analysis tasks to evaluate design quality.

• Ensure application performance, scalability, security, and reliability by following organizational best practices.

• Assist with the development of test plans and test cases, identifying stakeholders for testing and analyzing execution results.

• Write clean, testable code and support script maintenance to accommodate changes in requirements or implementation.

• Obtain and consolidate regular feedback from users to support continuous improvement efforts, such as EDI/API integrations.

• Prepare technical documentation, including interface descriptions and functional/non-functional details.

• Document processes and test results surrounding software architecture, application design, and component integration.

• Support in training team members on the use of applications and new enhancement features.

• Generate reports for stakeholders and participate in internal or external compliance audits as required.

• Follows company’s IT standards, code of conduct, policies, development standards, support procedures and guidelines.

• Configure and support integrations on Linux environments, including log analysis.

Experience: Minimum 10+ years of B2Bi working experience in Axway B2Bi, IBM ITX, API Management and team management. Proven track record in managing complex IT projects with business users and internal IT team working together collectively to deliver results.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of Axway B2Bi (Flows, Mapping Services, partner configs), Axway CFT(Catalog/routes, secure transfers (SSH/PGP), clustering), Axway Sentinel(Web dashboard, worlds/dictionaries, reports/alerts/metrics, lifecycle views) & Axway API Management tools.

• Strong understanding of IBM ITX(map design, type trees, adapters) and Data formats (EDI X12/EDIFACT, XML/XSD, JSON, CSV/flat files).

• Linux Environment (shell scripting, crontab, permissions, process & log monitoring)

• Supply Chain / Domain Knowledge.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Service Now and Version Control/CICD Tools like GIT, MS Azure and Jenkins

Good to have: 

• Basics of Kafka or other message brokers.

• Basics of Azure Blob Storage

• Scripting for automation (Python / PowerShell / advanced Bash).