Senior Middleware Automation Engineer

Company Overview

At Spire, we believe energy exists to help people. To enrich their lives, grow their businesses, advance their communities. It’s a simple idea, but one that’s at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to understanding the needs of the homes and businesses we serve. That's why we're always looking for driven, collaborative people to join our team. Because we believe that offering our customers the best service means bringing together the best people.

 

And we find the best by hiring those who share our values of drive, safety, inclusion and integrity, and demonstrate our four essential behaviors that bring the Spire vision, mission and culture to life:

• We make it happen: We are a company of go-getters, acting on every opportunity to help our company advance
• We collaborate: We put teamwork first, bringing in everyone’s ideas, because our collective energy makes us stronger
• We seek out perspective: We challenge ourselves to be open to different ways of doing things, because learning from each other leads to breakthroughs
• We care: We treat people how we want to be treated, listening closely and doing what’s right, even when it’s hard

By living our values and behaviors every day, we strive to create an environment where every employee feels welcome, respected and valued.

Summary

Spire is seeking a Senior Middleware Automation Engineer to oversee Spire’s evolution in the automation journey.  This role will be primarily responsible for providing oversight and guidance within a team of automation developers to support data flow, performance, middleware development, and automation improvements for the application suite of products that enable critical business processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support integration and automation within stream of core applications, including Customer Care & Billing, E-Business Suite, Fusion middleware, Maximo, Click and other third-party applications.
• Provide technical oversight for development teams and business users, and enables end to end business processes with workload automation.
• Respond to triage production issues, related to integrations or scheduling operations and follow Service Level Agreement.
• Oversee and influence built-in quality, partnering with Quality Assurance, as it pertains to unit/developer testing.
• Fully imbedded in development team, and participates with Quality Assurance, as it pertains to unit/developer testing criteria that is clear, precise, and testable.
• Accept work into the team backlog and own the commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each PI.
• Accountable for development and updating of technical documentation, adhering to standards of development practices.
• Effectively collaborate within specific team, as well as across agile teams to ensure alignment in dependencies, and impact of team’s work.
• Identify and create efficiencies within existing end to end business processes and current batch operations.
• Responsible for monitoring performance issues, identifying and executing on long-term solutions to improve automation.

Essential Characteristics and Competencies

Supervisory Responsibilities

Required Education (certifications, licenses)

• Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Information Technology, Technical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or related technical discipline), or foreign equivalent.

Required knowledge, skill and abilities

• 7 years of relevant work experience.
• 7 years of experience with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
• 7 years of experience with any combination of the following: Oracle Middleware, BPEL, WebLogic Server, ADF or Automated schedulers.
• 5 years of experience design and development of SOAP and/or REST based APIs.
• 5 ye