Integration Specialist
KPMG in Singapore is part of a global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 143 countries and territories with more than 273,000 partners and employees working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.
Job Description
The Enterprise Application & Engineering team within KPMG Information Technology Services is dedicated to creating and delivering value to our business by leveraging on IT technology. The team is responsible for delivering customer-focused solutions and high quality IT services internally to enable our business. We invite highly motivated and customer oriented individuals to join our ITS team
Responsibilities:
Application Integration Strategy
- Drive system integration vision, strategy, roadmap and adoption of industry best practices or methodologies.
- Oversee the integration of data or functions across multiple systems to ensure seamless and efficient operation.
- Development of integration plans, identification, and utilization of appropriate middleware to optimize the connectivity and performance of applications across target environments.
- Collaborate with offshore development teams to facilitate the integration of applications.
- Manage the entire integration process, from requirements gathering and analysis to testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Handle risk assessment and mitigation, cost account, and earned value management.
Maintenance support
- Creation and monitoring of SQL Server Jobs.
- Creation and monitoring of Azure Data Factory data pipelines.
Business Requirements Alignment
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements.
- Translate business needs into detailed specifications and integration requirements.
- Expertise in comparing integration approaches and assessing their relative strengths and limitations in terms of meeting business goals.
- Articulate the value of integration solutions to the technical team leads and stakeholders.
Research and feasibility assessment
- Spearhead research and analyses application integration approaches and middleware solutions.
- Conduct COTS middleware or integration solutions feasibility assessment.
- To continually innovate new ideas and solutions to promote or enrich user experience and other applications capabilities and explore integration opportunities with other systems.
- Define, prioritize, and manage the development of new integration opportunities.
Solution Optimisation
- Implement tracking and analytics to monitor the performance of the integration or middleware solutions.
- Identify areas for improvement and optimize the system's speed, reliability, and accuracy.
The ideal candidate should possess:
- Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience with application integration, middleware solutions or data interface management.
- Technical working experience in integration technologies such as Service-Oriented Architecture, API-led Connectivity, Middleware, Web Service, Enterprise Service Bus, Microservices or Cloud Integration Platforms.
- Ability to lead and influence delivery teams comprising of business analysts, tech leads, and offshore developers.
- Prior technical experience in cloud or web applications development is considered an advantage.
- Ability to work in a team environment, effectively interacting with others.
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At KPMG in Singapore we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe that diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients and communities. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, gender identity or expression, colour, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or other non-merit factors. We celebrate the different talents that our people bring and support every staff member in their journey to achieve personal and professional growth. One of the ways we do this is through Take Charge: Flexi-work, our flexible working framework which enables agile and innovative teams to help deliver our business goals.