Job Description

Valleysoft | Center of Excellence is a well-established IT services provider based in Egypt, leveraging partnerships with global technology leaders to deliver innovative solutions to our clients. Our mission is to optimize business processes through advanced technology with a focus on excellence and customer satisfaction.

Job Purpose

We're looking for a Technical Team Lead (ACE) to lead delivery of mission-critical banking integration solutions using IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

2 Resources (one onsite and one offshore)

. You'll own technical design, mentor developers, enforce engineering standards, and work closely with architecture, security, and platform teams to deliver secure, resilient integrations under strict SLAs.

Key Responsibilities

Lead a squad of ACE developers: task planning, technical guidance, reviews, delivery governance. Own solution design for integrations across

core banking, payments, channels, AML/Fraud, CRM/KYC

, and enterprise services. Define integration standards: naming conventions, reusable libraries/subflows, error handling, logging, tracing, and deployment patterns. Architect and develop ACE solutions:

message flows, API flows, ESQL

, mappings, routing/orchestration. Drive

non-functional requirements

: security, performance, scalability, high availability, DR readiness, and audit compliance. Partner with security teams on

TLS/mTLS, certificates/keystores, OAuth2/JWT

, secrets handling, and secure configurations. Ensure operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, runbooks, incident response support, RCA and preventive actions. Lead technical ceremonies with stakeholders: design walkthroughs, risk reviews, release readiness, dependency management. Guide CI/CD and environments: BAR packaging, configuration management, promotion strategy, rollback planning. Support production issues and coach the team in debugging MQ/API/network/cert issues.

Requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications

Strong hands-on experience in

IBM ACE

(or

IIB

) with end-to-end delivery ownership. At least 5-10 years of experience. Expert knowledge of

ESQL

, message modeling (XML/JSON), mapping, validation, and integration patterns. Strong experience with

IBM MQ

(backout handling, DLQs, channels, performance tuning). Proven leadership experience: mentoring, code/design reviews, estimation, delivery planning. Strong understanding of

API management concepts

(versioning, contracts, governance, security controls). Banking domain awareness: SLA-driven systems, audit trails, data privacy, segregation of duties, change management. Solid troubleshooting skills in complex enterprise environments (Linux basics, networking, certs, middleware). ACE on

OpenShift/Kubernetes

and container-first deployment patterns. Exposure to DevOps practices: pipelines, automated testing, quality gates.

Leadership & Governance Expectations

Establish and enforce

coding standards

, reusable components, and documentation quality. Ensure

traceability

end-to-end (correlation IDs, structured logs, audit events). Maintain technical backlog (tech debt, performance improvements, platform upgrades). Act as primary technical point-of-contact for integration streams and cross-team alignment.

Benefits

Private Health Insurance * Training & Development