TIBCO Administrator - H5402

(Reference code: 00054M) Status: Full Time, Employee Location: Northbrook, IL 60062 Job Category: IT/Software Development Career Level:Experienced (Non-Manager) Education Level: Bachelor's Degree Job Description: The Allstate Corporation is the nation’s largest publicly held personal lines insurer. A Fortune 100 company, with $156 billion in assets, Allstate sells 13 major lines of insurance, including auto, property, life and commercial. Allstate also offers retirement and investment products and banking services. Allstate is widely known through the “You’re In Good Hands With Allstate®” slogan. Allstate was founded in 1931 and became a publicly traded company in 1993.The purpose of this department is the Delivery of Enterprise Technology Services for Allstate and to provide new capabilities around Enterprise Common Component support as well as application environment and configuration support mission of the Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) department is to enable Allstate to rapidly develop core technology aligned competencies, leverage those competencies against business-aligned initiatives and assist in continually updating reference architectures.  Specifically, this role is part of the ETS-TIBCO Team, which is responsible for the Enterprise-wide Integration Platform and comprises the Integration Center of Excellence (iCoE).  All Enterprise business critical transactions and documents flow through this platform and utilizes the common services that are developed and maintained by the ETS-TIBCO team.  Therefore, the ETS-TIBCO integration platform is of paramount importance to the Enterprise. The scope of this job is an experienced TIBCO — Administrator; build and upgrade infrastructure; implement and maintain/support Enterprise TIBCO integration platform. The individual will be responsible for: Building out and upgrading existing and new ETS-TIBCO infrastructure. Management of all environments (development thru Production) Development and Implementation of Hawk Rules Code Deployments following standard ITIL Change Management Practices Participation in Disaster Recovery/High Availability testing Participate in Rapid response to resolve issues experienced by Enterprise-wide TIBCO Applications area Participation in Root Cause analysis post Rapid response call/ Incident tickets Provide Level 3 support for ETS-TIBCO Operations Team Creation of detailed training materials for internal and potential external use. Must have excellent communication skills and be very self-motivated. Assure the consistency across all project work products Collaborate effectively with other teams (internal and external) in a very dynamic environment The individual must have a demonstrated history of successfully working in a high-paced team environment. Required Skills / Experience: Expertise in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Excellent technical, logical, analytical and problem-solving skills Exceptional expertise and detailed knowledge of TIBCO Administrator, Business Works, HAWK, EMS, RVD and Business Connect. Demonstrated ability to analyze technical information, evaluate products, services and vendors, and make recommendations This resource will need to be comfortable presenting to all levels of client staff as a representative of the iCoE. Strong planning and organizational skills Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills Strong project/team leadership skills Knowledge of Change Control and ITIL Processes. This individual must be willing to provide rotational Off-hours support (24 * 7)Computer Proficiency: TIBCO Business Works 5.x (including 5.2.1, 5.3.2 and potentially higher versions) TIBCO Business Connect 5.1+  (knowledge of v. 3.6 considered a plus) TIBCO Admin 5.x TIBCO EMS 4.3 and higher TIBCO Hawk TIBCO RVD/RVRD (Rendezvous) TIBCO Adapters:  SAP, File, ADB, MSMQ SSH SSL MQ Series MSMQ Oracle Solaris 8, 9 and 10 UNIX Languages: C++, C#, XML, J2EE, SQL, Visual Basic Scripting VSS TOAD USD