Job Role : SOA Architect / Technical Lead

Location:
Remote

Experience:
12+years Role overview : An SOA Architect or Technical Lead will play a key role in ensuring that the Oracle upgrade does not disrupt integrations, business processes, application availability, or downstream systems. The role is broader than simply upgrading the database. It involves assessing the impact on the SOA platform, validating compatibility, coordinating technical teams, managing risks, and ensuring a controlled cutover with a reliable rollback strategy. SOA Architect will be responsible for target-state design and technical direction, Defines the cross-platform compatibility assessment, Recommends the upgrade approach and key design decisions, owns architectural risks and mitigation, ensuring the target architecture, compatibility approach, migration patterns and technical controls support a safe, phased transition of business-critical integrations.

Skills:
• Architecture designing and Middleware experience.
• Oracle SOA Suite 12c and 14c; Oracle WebLogic; Oracle Service Bus; BPEL; Mediator; BPM Suite; Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Handson experience in Integration Development.
• BPEL; XSD/XSLT; XML/XPath; SOAP web services; REST APIs; Java/J2EE
• DevOps and Automation : Jenkins; Git; Maven; Ansible; deployment scripting; Docker where applicable
• Database : Oracle Database; PL/SQL; SQL performance tuning
• Quality Engineering : SoapUI; Postman; Selenium; JMeter; regression automation; test data and defect management
• Infrastructure and Operations : Linux; load balancers; monitoring and alerting; Kubernetes where applicable
• Delivery and Governance :



Project management; migration factory management; architecture governance; release management; ITIL-aligned transition

Key responsibilities
• Assess the current SOA estate, including composites, BPEL processes, OSB services, adapters, shared components, custom code and external dependencies.
• Define target architecture, upgrade strategy, technical standards, migration patterns and design decisions.
• Lead compatibility and impact assessments for integrations, libraries, adapters, security, certificates and runtime configurations.
• Produce technical designs, interface dependency maps, migration-wave recommendations and implementation guidance.
• Review code and configuration changes, resolve complex technical issues and conduct peer/design reviews.
• Work with QA and operations to define technical regression coverage, observability, rollback criteria and production-readiness checks.
• Support cutover, defect triage, performance tuning and stabilization.
• Required skills and experience
• Robust hands-on Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware experience.
• Expertise in BPEL, Oracle Service Bus (OSB), Mediator, SCA composites, adapters and integration patterns, as applicable to the estate.
• Working knowledge of Oracle WebLogic Server, JDeveloper, XML, XSD, XSLT, WSDL, SOAP and REST.
• Experience with middleware upgrades, platform migration, compatibility assessment and production troubleshooting.
• Ability to produce clear architecture/design documentation and guide offshore engineering teams. we are looking for someone with 30-45days of availability to start.

📌 SOA Architect (India)
🏢 Darize
📍 India