IT Integrations Specialist (Boomi Developer)

Osborne Clarke are seeking an experienced IT Integrations Specialist (Boomi Developer) to join our growing IT department in either our Bristol or London office.

This role is crucial in designing, developing, and maintaining integration solutions that connect various systems and applications within the organisation, ensuring seamless data flow and communication between disparate systems to enhance overall business efficiency and performance.

This is a permanent position offering hybrid working.

The role

The ITS Integrations Specialist will be responsible for formulating, maintaining, and evolving the firm's Integrations Strategy, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.

Other key responsibilities include:

Integration Requirements: Collaborating with business stakeholders to understand integration requirements and translating them into technical specifications. Working closely with other parts of the IT team to ensure seamless integration with existing systems and applications.

Technical Support: Providing technical support and troubleshooting for integration issues. Maintaining documentation for integration processes and solutions.

Performance Monitoring: Continuously monitoring and improving integration performance and reliability. Performing unit and integration testing to ensure the quality and functionality of integration solutions.

Technology Trends: Staying updated with the latest trends and technologies in integration and recommending improvements.

Technical skills

• Significant proven experience in developing and managing integration solutions, with a strong preference for Boomi skills (certification preferred), although experience with other Enterprise Service Bus platforms such as Microsoft BizTalk Server will also be considered.
• Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as JavaScript and PowerShell.
• Experience of integrating various Enterprise class platforms, both on privately hosted (Virtual, PaaS, IaaS) and Cloud (SaaS) platforms.
• Extensive experience of consuming APIs and using tools like SOAPUI, Postman and Curl for integration development and testing. Also, a core understanding of modern API concepts, authentication methodology (OAuth, SAML, JWT) and common protocols (SOAP, REST, GraphQL and OData).
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving integration issues.
• Experience in working in a collaborative team environment and managing multiple integration projects simultaneously, whilst acting as the lead engineer in integrations aspects of those projects.
• Understanding of ETL (Extract Translation and Load) principles and preferably experience of manipulating data for movement between systems.
• Familiarity with various data formats (XML, JSON, etc.) and data transformation techniques.
• Good understanding of Microsoft SQL Server (or equivalent) and strong skills with SQL.
• Understanding of source control and version management best practices.
• Understanding of network protocols and security best practices related to integrations.
• Hands-on knowledge and experience of the following classes of Software Solutions: Client Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Financial/Practice Management Systems, Document Management Systems, Reporting Solutions.

Person specification

• Ability to multi-task and oversee multiple projects at any given time, as well as perform accurately under time pressures and constraints, meeting deadlines as required.
• Ability to maintain confidential information and work in a fast-paced, dynamic and creative organisation.
• Initiative and good judgement, functioning well under pressure, able to switch gears on a moment's notice.
• Ability to concentrate in an environment of multiple demands and distractions.
• Demonstrated flexibility and responsiveness.
• Detail-oriented, well-organised, self-motivated, problem solver who can work independently.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a wider UK and international team with the best interests of the team and your customers being paramount.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Dan Jones (Recruitment Manager) on 0117 917 4097 or email dan.jones@osborneclarke.com.

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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