Boundary Systems Consultant

About the Role

As an Integrations and Boundary Systems Specialist at Accenture Federal Services, you will support the assessment, design, testing, and deployment of interfaces connecting the Maximo environment to its enterprise and operational systems as part of the MAS 9.2 upgrade. You will collaborate with various teams to document current interfaces, define future-state requirements, and maintain traceability throughout the project lifecycle. This role supports 22 identified boundary system integrations across various technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the boundary-system and interface inventory.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with 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.
• Identify dependencies involving Maximo, MuleSoft, Informatica, ECM/OpenText, S/4HANA, eSOMS, Primavera P6, and other connected systems.
• Clarify responsibility for 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 completed interfaces.
• Support testing phases including 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 cutover activities, including mock cutovers, final dress rehearsals, and production activation.
• Track interface risks, decisions, dependencies, defects, and readiness status.
• Support integration issue analysis, production validation, knowledge transfer, and Hypercare activities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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.

Qualifications (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.