IT Integration Specialist

PG is the name for glass in Southern Africa. Established in Cape Town in 1897, the Group produces, distributes and installs automotive, building glass, aluminium and glass film solutions. The PG Group is a significant worldwide player and our operations comply with the highest international safety, quality and environmental standards.  PG Group is invested in the following divisions:  PG Glass, PG Glass Africa, Shatterprufe, LLumar, Widney, PFG Building Glass, PG Building Glass, PG Primador and PG Aluminium.

Main job purpose

Join us as the Architect of Integration Excellence! Dive into the heart of our technological ecosystem, sculpting seamless connections between systems, ensuring every byte flows harmoniously. Your canvas includes sophisticated integration strategies, harnessing the power of message brokers, intricate buses, and lightning-fast point-to-point architectures. Collaborate with passionate project teams, crafting data symphonies that elevate our business processes end to end.

As our Integration Maestro, you'll be the guardian of functional and technical integrity, identifying and implementing cutting-edge tools that propel us toward unparalleled efficiency. Picture yourself leading requirement gatherings, transforming visions into tangible realities, while mentoring future champions who will drive our success forward. If you thrive on challenge, innovation, and making every bit count, let's shape the future together.

Main Objective

• Accountable for the overall functional and technical integrity of the solution and its interfaces to the external landscape.
• Design integration strategies that encompass message broker, buses, and point‐to‐point connection architectures.
• Plan and manage the integration of data and systems throughout the enterprise and external dependencies and data requirements to ensure business processes work end to end.
• Identify and implement the most suitable enterprise and solution architecture and Data Integration tools for the organization’s needs.
• Liaise with internal and external project teams to gain an understanding of required data architectures, functionality and services.
• Identify suitable KPI's and measure and manage SLAs related to all data integration solutions
• Approve the request for and development of all Integration Service objects with a view to regulate the use of implemented standards and reuse of already developed objects.
• Participate in the requirement gathering sessions with internal and external customers.
• Manage the design, validation, configuration, implementation, testing, and debugging of solutions.
• To effectively coach and mentor identified high potential candidates in order to improve skills, support succession plans for key critical and scarce positions, drive staff engagement and retention and ultimately increasing profits through improved capability, performance and productivity.

Critical job requirements

Qualification(s):

• Relevant IT degree
• Integration tools certification    

Knowledge:       

• Knowledge of data integration tools
• MS Office suite
• Proficient in the use of Visio
• Knowledge of project management principles
• Process mapping principles
• Knowledge of data formats

Skills:    

• Technical analysis and design
• Business acumen
• Ability to communicate at all levels within the organisation with both technical and business audiences.
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities

Experience:

• 8 - 10 years relevant experience in a diverse and distributed systems and infrastructure landscape (SAP and Microsoft CRM - On Premises and Cloud solutions)
• 5 years in managing vendors and project teams

PG Group, and its subsidiaries, are committed to the principles of employment equity and as such are equal opportunity employers.  Qualified applicants who apply for any vacancies will be considered with due consideration based on of fairness and equity. Factors such as race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability are not consider exclusively and are not determinative of any appointments made by PG Group or its subsidiaries.

Requisition ID: 2343