Integration Technical Lead - Major Insurer - Mule ESB

Fantastic opportunity to join one of the biggest names in UK insurance as a Senior integration lead/architect. Offering superb opportunities to develop and progress your career, alongside a competitive salary and benefits package.

Job Description

Working within an application development and maintenance focused area, the technical integration lead will be accountable for maintaining, safeguarding and driving forward the value of a business critical application within the overall technology strategy.

This is a role that focuses on Mule ESB, covering a range of large-scale integration projects within a major UK insurer.

Your duties as an integration technical lead will include but not be limited to the following:
-- Manage and maintain overall technical solutions integrity of the application
-- Develop and promote deep technical expertise, insights and thought leadership related to the application
-- Coordinate, guide and support the planning and delivery of changes to the application
-- Develop and implement an assurance approach which provides confidence to stakeholders and ensures that the value of changes will be achieved
-- Maximise the value of the Guidewire application to the business
-- Collaborate with Application Maintenance to deliver effective day to day application support and maximise the value of Application Maintenance to the Application Development team
-- Provide a key input to contract negotiations and contract management with respect to technical assurance and project and change activities.

The Successful Applicant

As a technical integration lead you will already have experience delivering multiple integration/ESB projects within a technical lead capacity using an agile approach, within a development environment setup. You MUST have solid experience across large-scale projects, with Mule ESB, or at least similar toolsets, and ideally have comprehensive experience with Java.

You will have integration architecture experience as well as being accustomed to working with third party suppliers.

- Ideally, experience of Mule ESB; alternatively, significant experience of one or more of the following: Tibco BusinessWorks, IBM IB/WPS/BPM, webMethods ESB, Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA/BPM, JBoss ESB, Talend ESB
- Practical experience with SOAP web services and working with XML from Java: WSDL, XSD, SOAP envelope/body, JAX-WS and CXF or Metro, WSDL-first and Java-first web service development, XSLT, XPath
- Good working knowledge of web development in Java: JSP, servlets, Spring MVC or Struts
- Practical experience with message-oriented middleware and JMS: ActiveMQ, IBM MQ or similar; working with JMS from Java
- Experience of integration gateways such as IBM Datapower is a plus
- Experience of managed file transfer (MFT) products such as Globalscape or IBM Cast Iron is a plus

If you fit the above criteria and want a role within a market leader, where your expertise will make a positive difference to the overall success of the business, I would like to hear from you.

What`s on Offer for the successful Technical Intergration Lead - Mule ESB

Competitive base salary depending on experience, coupled with an excellent benefits package and bonus.