Mastech Inc is a growing company dedicated to innovation and teamwork. We are currently seeking a Data Power XI50-Message Transformation Specialist for our client in the Insurance domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits, exciting challenges, and the opportunity for growth. This is a contract-to-hire position and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 6 months

Location: Hartford, CT/ Zip Code: 06115

Compensation: $65+/ Hourly on W2Role: Data Power XI50-Message Transformation Specialist

Role Description: The DataPower XI50 Message Transformation Specialist would be responsible for the design, development, implementation, and support and governance for DataPower XI50 life-cycle activities. This ideal candidate would have strong understanding of an enterprise level shared services development environment, high availability models and disaster recovery techniques, and a proven experience in middleware, message transformation and integration architecture, infrastructures and technologies.

Responsibilities:

- Maintain stability of the supported platforms and technical implementations through consistent monitoring/ tuning, and participate in the establishment of monitoring tools and alerting threshold definitions.

- Build knowledge/ expertise around understanding performance thresholds and tuning configurations for the supported tools and provide consulting to application areas on constrained design practices.

- Collect related metrics, and work closely with the Platform Architects and Infrastructure/ Platform Owners to analyze platform capacity and perform demand management activities (for upcoming application loads or change in existing load profiles).

- Collect learnings through implementations, design, and code reviews and health checks; translate them into best-practices; and document for establishing group level policies and standards.

- Adhere to ITIL and CMMI oriented eB&T standards, processes, and policies.

- Lead problem management discussions through employing an analytical methodology/ structure and engaging appropriate resources on a timely basis.

Required Qualifications:

- Strong process management skills with hands-on experience in process, quality, and performance management methodologies.

- Ability to influence and build relationships with development teams and internal/ external organizations.

- 5+ years of experience in the analysis,

architecture, documentation, and promotion of messaging infrastructure solutions including the use of SOA solutions is required (with emphasis on MQ and SOAP over HTTP message transportation protocols).

- Strong working knowledge/ experience in designing, implementing, and supporting DataPower XI50 solutions are required. (including design and development of MPGs, WSPs, and XML Firewalls with experience in support, troubleshooting, and tuning).

- Strong knowledge in any-to-any message transformation with advanced level of understanding/ experience in XSLT, Contivo, and/ or WebSphere Transformation Extender are required.

- Strong working knowledge/ experience with XML, XSLT, XSD, DTD, and Namespaces are required.

- Strong working knowledge/ experience with SOA (Web Services, WSDL, and SOAP) in J2EE implementations are required.

- Must have strong analytical and structured problem solving skills.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expensesTravel: NoLocal Preferred: YesRecruiter Name: Tinka Ivanova

Recruiter Phone: 412 253 0579WebSphere Message BrokerJob type: 6-9 Month ContractEducation: Bachelor


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