Oracle SOA Developer *CONTRACT TO HIRE* - Houston, TX

Oracle SOA Developer:

Responsibilities:
• Technical Development and Support: Support for Oracle SOA Suite applications, including custom-built interfaces. Designing and develop (or enhance) robust, secure and fault-tolerant Fusion Middleware components of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as per business requirements.
• Troubleshooting: Provide technical troubleshooting for complex time sensitive issues related to Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic Server environments.
• Monitoring and Performance Tuning: Monitor SOA servers/domains, applications, components, and composites to ensure business continuity. Tune SOA servers and applications for better performance.
• Patching and Upgrades: Apply patches and upgrade Oracle SOA components, BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), and Mediator products. Install and configure Oracle SOA Suite components and adapters.
• Security: Establish and enforce security policies and procedures for Oracle SOA applications and infrastructure. Configure secured web service connections among servers in the web, application, and database tiers of different applications.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other IT teams, External Vendors to ensure seamless integration and operation of SOA services.
• Familiarity with Service Now ticketing system, SLA requirements, JIRA and SharePoint.

Qualifications:
• Education: A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience: At least 4-5 years of experience with implementation and support of Oracle SOA or similar platform. Extensive knowledge of SOA principles, service design, application integration patterns, and messaging. Understanding of Infrastructure, Security, Network setup in Corporate environment will be a plus.
• Skills: Proficiency in XML technologies (XSL, XQuery, XSD, SOAP, WSDL), Java, and building enterprise service and orchestration services using BPEL. Familiarity with Oracle server stacks, Linux, including WebLogic application server, Oracle HTTP web server, and SOA server will be a plus.