Lead Middleware Automation Engineer

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.

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.

• 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.

• Bachelor's degree (Computer Science, Information Technology, Technical Engineering or related discipline), or foreign equivalent.

• 7 years of relevant work experience.
• 7 years of experience with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
• 7 years of experience with any combination of Oracle Middleware, BPEL, WebLogic Server, ADF or Automated schedulers.
• 7 years of experience with the design and development of SOAP or REST based APIs.
• 7years of experience with structured and object-oriented programming, relational database design, operating systems, networking concepts, and systems integration.
• 2 years of experience with Hana Cloud Platform development and integration.

• Position allows for telecommuting 3 days per week within a reasonable commuting distance of the reporting office in St. Louis, Missouri.
• Position requires domestic travel up to 5% of the time.

Spire accepts online applications through our career site at jobs.spireenergy.com

Posting requirements: The above posting description is intended to describe the general nature of the level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Spire, Inc., and its subsidiaries are Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

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Job Req ID: 10995

Job Segment: ITS