Technical Consultant III

Established in 2002, Zafin is the award-winning global leader in cloud-based product and pricing solutions for banks, enabling its clients to create and execute innovative products and propositions to respond to market challenges and opportunities at speed. The company is transforming the banking industry—catalyzing core modernization and digital transformation strategies, enabling improved customer experiences, driving revenue, and increasing operational efficiency across the globe. Zafin’s platform is proven. The company has high impact installations in place delivering value at more than 30 banks worldwide.

Zafin is privately owned and operates out of multiple global locations including North America, Europe, and Australia. Zafin is backed by significant financial partners committed to accelerating the company’s growth, fueling innovation and ensuring Zafin’s enduring value as a leading provider of cloud-based solutions to the financial services sector.

Zafin is proud to be recognized as a top employer. In Canada, UK and India, we are certified as a “Great Place to Work”. The Great Place to Work program recognizes employers who invest in and value their people and organizational culture. The company’s culture is driven by strategy and focused on execution. We make and keep our commitments.

What is the opportunity? 

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, the Senior Technology and Integration Services, the Integration Consultant will work in multiple client-facing projects to enable SaaS onboarding. You will act as the technical go-to person for SaaS onboarding and a thought leader on Zafin integration paradigms and its best practices across multiple cloud platforms. You will have ample opportunities to field your best communication, technical, and organizational skills to take a SaaS project from initiation to go-live. You will represent client interests internally to enhance process, product, documentation, and delivery experience. You will interact with senior technical leaderships on the client-side and present and align them with solution approaches. You will interact with multiple internal stakeholders to achieve alignment across various project goals and delivery targets. 

What will you do?

• Interact and collaborate with customers and partners to define the integration landscape. 
• Define the logical sequence of integration activities for a SaaS onboarding project.
• Coordinate with the product development team to implement recommended integration strategies. 
• Improve overall project delivery experience and go-live time by improving process and documentation. 
• Support cloud infrastructure and system components required for integration.
• Lead the identification, isolation, resolution, and communication of issues within a client environment. 

What do I need to succeed?

Must have:

• Worked on at least one end to end SaaS implementation project. 
• 7 to 10 years of application and data integration experience. 
• Experience with clustering and high availability configurations.
• Agile experience. 
• Designed an end-to-end scalable integration solution.
• Broad exposure to different technology stacks involved in a SaaS delivery model.
• Broad and in-depth knowledge of:
  • data integration concepts and tools 
  • network protocol stacks and related integration paradigms 
  • security postures in integration technology stacks 
  • API design and API based integration 
  • Azure, AWS and GCP public cloud platforms and provided services and their integration approaches
  • Integration frameworks used by SaaS applications.
• Skilled technical documenter.
• Solution designer at heart. 
• Experience in using modeling tools to create effective architecture views. 
• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and debugging skills. 
• Excellent communication skills. 
• Ability to break down complex technical and functional requirements and effectively articulate / communicate them to different stakeholders involved in a project.
• Self-starter willing to get involved in all aspects of solution delivery including implementation and process improvement.   
• Broad picture minded - one who sees the end-to-end solution of a project. 

Nice to have:

• Domain knowledge of banking and financial institutions and/or large enterprise IT environment.
• Strong delivery experience with geographically distributed delivery and client teams.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with setting up and configuration of Kafka brokers. 
• Strong knowledge and experience with the Kafka Connect Framework including working with multiple connector types: HTTP, RESTful APIs, JMS.  

What's in it for you?

If you work with us, we expect you’ll show the spirit, drive, and intellect that makes you great. We offer a challenging, team-oriented work environment, competitive remuneration and benefits, and excellent opportunities for professional and personal growth. If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at Zafin.

Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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