Boundary Systems Consultant

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The Job: As an Integrations and Boundary Systems Specialist, you will support the assessment, design, testing, and deployment of interfaces connecting Maximo environment to its enterprise and operational systems as part of the MAS 9.2 upgrade. You will work with Maximo functional and technical teams, integration developers, middleware teams, boundary-system owners, and stakeholders to document current interfaces, define future-state requirements, identify dependencies and impacts, and maintain traceability through design, build, testing, cutover, and Hypercare. The role will support 22 identified boundary system integrations across REST/OSLC APIs, interface tables, direct connections, MuleSoft, and Informatica. Job Responsibilities: - Maintain the boundary-system and interface inventory, including system owners, business purpose, source and target systems, direction, frequency, volume, and criticality - Facilitate workshops and interviews with business, technical, middleware, security, and boundary-system stakeholders - Gather and document functional, technical, integration, security, operational, and non-functional requirements - Develop and refine integration requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, Interface Control Documents, and Integration Design Documents - Document current-state and future-state data flows, mappings, transformations, authentication, certificates, endpoints, and message structures - Assess each interface for MAS 9.2 compatibility and support disposition decisions such as retain, reconfigure, remediate, refactor, replace, or retire - Identify dependencies involving Maximo, MuleSoft, Informatica, ECM/OpenText, S/4HANA, eSOMS, Primavera P6, and other connected systems - Clarify responsibility for MAS-side, middleware, and boundary-application changes and flag items requiring additional scope, estimates, or approval - Maintain traceability between integration requirements, designs, development work, test cases, defects, decisions, and approvals in Azure DevOps - Coordinate with integration developers to clarify requirements and validate that completed interfaces align with approved designs - Support Functional and Technical Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, UAT, regression testing, and defect triage - Assist with test-data preparation, interface monitoring, error handling, retries, message reprocessing, and reconciliation - Support mock cutovers, Final Dress Rehearsal, interface shutdown and restart sequencing, production activation, and validation - Track interface risks, decisions, dependencies, defects, and readiness status across all affected workstreams - Support integration issue analysis, production validation, knowledge transfer, and Hypercare activities Here's What You Need: - Experience supporting integrations for IBM Maximo, MAS, enterprise asset management, or comparable enterprise platforms - Understanding of the IBM Maximo Integration Framework, including object structures, endpoints, enterprise services, publish channels, processing rules, and error handling - Experience documenting interfaces, data flows, mappings, transformations, and technical dependencies - Familiarity with REST APIs, OSLC, JSON, XML, interface tables, direct database connections, and middleware-based integration - Experience with MuleSoft, Informatica, or comparable enterprise integration platforms - Ability to translate business-process needs into clear and testable integration requirements - Experience developing interface specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and design documentation - Experience supporting System Integration Testing, defect analysis, retesting, and interface reconciliation - Familiarity with Azure DevOps or a comparable requirements, backlog, testing, and defect-management tool - Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-coordination skills Would Be Nice To Have: - Experience upgrading Maximo 7.6.x integrations to MAS 9.x.Utility, nuclear, generation, transmission, supply-chain, finance, or field-operations experience - Familiarity with S/4HANA, eSOMS, Primavera P6, ECM/OpenText, MuleSoft, Informatica, or similar TVA boundary-system technologies - Experience supporting integration cutover planning, mock rehearsals, production activation, and Hypercare - Familiarity with SOX-controlled, NQA-1, or other highly regulated environments. 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