Sr. Staff-Software Development Engineer (Exstream)
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Your OpportunityWe are looking for an experienced OpenText Exstream Architect with a strong track record of architecting, implementing, and maintaining Exstream design and run-time environments, for both real-time and high-volume batch applications.The Client Reporting Technology (CRT) group champions innovative and scalable technology solutions to deliver a superior client communication experience, through multiple delivery channels. Some of CRT’s software products include brokerage and bank statement applications, letters, tax documents, trade confirmations, operational and marketing communications, and regulatory forms. In this position, you will administer and mature CRT’s OpenText Exstream design and run-time environments. Your responsibilities will include setting product direction with internal and external stakeholders, implementing new add-on products and features, ensuring CRT’s architectural and design governance is applied, coordinating upstream and downstream system integrations, and improving CRT’s overall development and deployment pipeline for the OpenText Exstream product suite.What you’re good atWe are looking for a technology leader who is enthusiastic about working across multiple communication verticals to enhance and streamline our existing communication pipelines, as well as increase our efficiency through tooling enhancements, process improvements, and overall platform modernization. You will be specifically responsible for implementing, administering, and maturing our OpenText Exstream design and run-time environments. You will not only maintain and improve CRT’s existing high-volume batch-based Linux run-time environment, but will help us modernize towards the use of additional OpenText products (such as Communications Server and Content Author), to provide enhanced workload and content management capabilities. In addition to these responsibilities, you will also help us architect and implement a modernized solution for both 1-to-1 and 1-to-many real-time multi-channel communications through the use of the Empower product. The role will require a high level of knowledge and responsibility, yet has the support structure necessary for development and growth.The role will focus on the following areas:
Exstream Platform Architecture – Set direction for, and help implement our adoption of new products and features, including but not limited to Communications Server, Content Author, Empower, CAS, Assured Delivery, etc.
Exstream Product Administration and Oversight– Manage Exstream versions in use within our design and run-time environments, including license management and the planning/prioritization of product version upgrades.
Risk Assessment – Code review and approval processes, scope management, and delivery quality.
Executing – Build and release coordination, deployment tactics, and issue management.
Measuring – Establish, mature, and automate metrics for application quality, communication delivery success, and other KPIs.
Process Improvement/Automation – Tool/feature adoption and improvements, process automation and innovation.
Education – Constant education for stakeholders and engineers regarding product capabilities, adoption, and best practices in the CCM space.
Mentoring – Mentor and coach team members.
What you have
10+ years working in an enterprise software organization.
8 - 10 years demonstrated real world experience with the OpenText Exstream suite of products.
Experience administrating Exstream design and run-time environments, including but not limited to:
Installation and upgrade of DBAdmin, Design Manager, and Designer products.
Design Environment management including areas such as:
Approval processes and states
Design layers
Flow targets
Message types
Outputs and output queues
Search keys
Empower Settings and other associated Interactive elements
Administration of design groups and users via Active Directory integration
etc.
Installation, administration, and integration of products in the expanded Exstream suite, including:
Communication Server
Content Author
Empower
CAS
Assured Delivery
Implementation of the Linux run-time Engine via shell scripting and/or other comparable mechanisms.
Installation and management of Exstream product keys and licensing via FlexNet.
Experience architecting Exstream applications to meet both real-time and high-volume batch needs, using features such as:
Variable-driven document assembly
Container-based design
Dynamic content import
Advanced tables
Dynamic charting
2-pass processing
Sorting and bundling
Application consolidator
etc.
Experience architecting Exstream applications and run-time environments to process successfully at scale (>10M customers per run).
Experience implementing various input/reference/connector formats supported by the Exstream product, including but not limited to:
Flat files
XML
MQ
SOAP
JSON
ODBC/JDBC
Custom DDA implementations
Experience implementing and detailed structural troubleshooting of various multi/omni-channel output formats, including but not limited to:
AFP
XML
HTML5
Experience with CCM best practices in both digital (web, email, SMS, mobile) and traditional (print) delivery channels, including design considerations for both (ex. dynamic content scaling on mobile, real-time vs. batch delivery by channel, considerations for print/insertion operational efficiencies, etc.).
Desire to dig deeper into how best to utilize the OpenText Exstream suite of products to meet the ever-changing needs of our business.
Strong understanding of high-volume batch processing, job scheduling, horizontal and vertical scaling concepts and best practices.
Experience in driving process improvements, enhanced feature adoption, scalability, and automation.
Strong problem solving skills and the ability to partner with Product Owners, Architects, Software Application engineers, Release Engineers and other engineers across an organization.
Experience mentoring and guiding engineers around CCM and architectural best practices.
Excellent facilitation, organization and collaboration skills.
Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
Ability to manage risk and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
Additional Desired Skills:
Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or other scaling frameworks), working with Agile teams and leveraging Agile tools (such as JIRA and Confluence) in order to accomplish software development objectives.
Exposure to automation efforts covering several aspects of software development; for example: automated build processes, automated deployment, artifact and configuration management (ie. experience setting up a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using tools like Jenkins or Bamboo).
Experience and working knowledge of implementing Blue-Green deployments to reduce downtime and risk.
Experience and working knowledge of PCF – Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Experience working with source code repositories (i.e. GIT, Bitbucket)
Experience with automation/configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible is a plus.
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