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Main Responsibilities:
- Gather and analyze integration requirements from business stakeholders.
- Collaborate with business analysts, clients, and IT professionals to understand and document integration needs.
- Coordinate with external vendors, partners and countries to analyze the integration needs and data exchange requirements, create data mapping, define API specifications including request/response details, data validations and message formats; identify business use cases for integration, document the integration document including API request/response samples and get it review and approved with external stakeholder.
- Maintain an integration architecture repository, including system diagrams, data flows, interface specifications and API URLs/path by respective environment for all APIs.
- Provide training and support to end-users and other IT team members on integration-related topics.
- Design integration solutions to connect disparate systems, applications, and data sources using appropriate tools and technologies (e.g., APIs, middleware, ETL tools).
- Perform API testing using tools like Postman and SoapUI to validate the API request/response and troubleshoot response codes & errors.
- Conduct System Integration Testing (SIT) to ensure data integrity and functionality.
- Work with the integration developers and operations support team to troubleshoot and resolve integration issues in a timely manner.
- Perform gap analysis and identify impacts as a result of any changes or enhancements to existing APIs.
- Ensure all integration processes are thoroughly documented, including data mappings, workflows, message formats, validations and transformation rules.
- Maintain version control for all integration documentation, ensuring it is up-to-date and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
- Plan the rollout/migration of services to the new API and validate the integration post-implementation.
- Provide regular status updates and present progress reports for assigned tasks to supervisors and management.
- Create integration specifications document covering integration flows, data mapping, message formats, sample API payloads, response codes and logging criteria.
- Mentor a team of integration specialists and manage their day-to-day activities and project assignments.
- Any other task assigned by the line manager/HOD.
Qualification, Experience & Technical Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or any relevant discipline.
- Minimum 6 years of experience in IT business/integration analysis, integration development or a related field.
- Experience in software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies and techniques.
- Experience of working on integration projects, documenting integration specifications and API testing.
- Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to work with internal & external stakeholders.
Job Details
Pakistan Single Window
Pakistan Single Window (PSW) is an ICT-based system in Pakistan providing a single window for trade. PSW is a facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardized information and documents at a single-entry point to fulfill all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements. If information is electronic, then individual data elements need to be submitted only once. PSW will connect relevant government departments with each other and with economic operators like importers, exporters, customs agents, shipping agents, transporters etc, in Pakistan for efficient management of cross border trade. It will provide the ease and transparency in achieving compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, through an on-line facility, that will intelligently handle the information for each transaction without the need to provide same information more than once or to physically visit such government departments. Pakistan has committed to implement various provisions of World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement that includes implementation of a National Single Window (NSW) system before February, 2022. Pakistan also needs PSW implementation to overhaul management of its external trade for reducing time, cost and complexity involved to improve its position in various global rankings on competitiveness and ease of doing business. Guiding vision and mission objectives: VISION: Pakistan will establish a world-class automated hub by 2022, offering services and creating efficiencies, to reduce cross border trade related costs, time and complications for improved trade facilitation and compliance. MISSION: Improve cross-border trader processing by providing centralized ICT based services, simplified processes, effective and reliable automation, harmonized data exchange and risk-based selectivity in enforcement of government’s regulations.
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