SOA Architect - Albany, NY - 24 Months - # K18021/260755

Duties include but are not limited to:

The UISIm project is a multi-year program effort to redesign, test and implement business process improvements for the Department of Labor’s customers, partners and internal staff. Business process improvements will be made by satisfying the following project goals and functional objectives: operational improvement, program integrity, systems integration. UISIm will replace the 40+ year old Unemployment Insurance (UI) legacy computer systems and manual procedures with a new and improved integrated computer system.
Technical Architects SOA (Java/J2EE Application Architects/Analyst/Developers) are needed to lead system analysts, designers and developers to develop and implement component (SCA and web services) based J2EE applications through an iterative object-oriented design, development and implementation lifecycle.

Designing and developing the following Architecture/Design artifacts:

•  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:
1. Designing and developing enterprise foundational services such as Identity and Access Management, Workflow (Human Task Management), Logging (Router layer), Messaging (Enterprise Service Bus – ESB), Enterprise Correspondence Management, Enterprise Data Access Layer (DAL). Designing various services (web services, Service Component Architecture (SCA), etc) and working with development teams to establish patterns for composite application development.
2. Use of IBM’s Business Process design and development tools: WebSphere Business Modeler (WBM), WebSphere Process Server (WPS), WebSphere Integration Developer (WID). This includes importing models from WBM into WID and implementing service orchestration using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
3. Designing and developing J2EE applications using IBM’s Rational Software Architect (RSA), including the generation of Service Models, Service Classification Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams) for model driven development in Rational Application Developer (RAD).
4. Using IBM’s ESB tools such as WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and WebSphere ESB for message flow routing and enterprise application and service integration.
5. Using SOA Backplane technologies such as IBM DataPower and/or SOA Software Network Director, Policy Manager and Repository Manager to manage Service Repository facilities for service end-point lookup and service contract lifecycle management.
6. Strong communication skills to work closely with System and Business Analysts, Developers, Architects and IT managers and Project Managers.