Lead 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 Lead 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, and automation improvements for the application suite of products that enable Spire’s 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 enable end to end business processes with workload automation. 
• Respond to triage production issues related to integrations or scheduling operations and follow Service Level Agreements. 
• Oversee and influence built-in quality, partnering with Quality Assurance for unit/developer testing. 
• Participate in all ceremonies and planning with the development team, focused on acceptance criteria that is clear, precise, and testable. 
• Accept work into the team backlog and own commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each PI. 
• Partner with architects to understand technical landscape, as well as future roadmap to support middleware operations. 
• Accountable for development and updating of technical documentation. 
• Oversee and drive standards of development. 
• Collaborate within the specific team and across agile teams to ensure alignment in dependencies. 
• 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.