Lead Specialist Integration Engineer | SITA | United Kingdom - London

Lead Specialist Integration Engineer | SITA | United Kingdom - London

Lead Specialist Integration Engineer

Location: United Kingdom - London | Full time | Job opening ID: 7512

Purpose

Translate and align technical, business and operational requirements of systems, applications, services etc into technical and / or functional specifications, ensuring the overall capability / viability of a specific product(s) is achievable.
Ensure the integration of the requirements match those of interacting systems, applications and services both inside and outside of SITA in the wider airline community.
Act as a 'technical lead' for multiple small to medium projects that have a significant business impact ensuring the solution(s) developed are able to sustain the long-term technical and business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

- Contribute to user workshops to validate customer requirements, confirm and negotiate technical specifications upon activation of a project, verifying adherence to requirements in delivered solutions.
- Investigate, advise and implement added functionality; either from specific application enhancements or functionality requirements of the user community.
- Advise, implement and manage technical change request processes ensuring all system changes follow agreed policy and comply with audit requirements.
- Overall responsibility for technical set-up of the system, liaising with development teams to determine effort, feasibility, scheduling, etc.
- Responsible for the creation of technical documentation that supports the products as defined in the requirements.
- Using the technical specification, create unit test plans and test cases, scripts and documentation and perform actual testing relating to the technical testing.
- Ensure all risks and issues that effect the project are raised following set processes and are actioned appropriately. Escalate risks and issues that pose a significant impact to deliverables.
- Implement continual process improvement to ensure best practice is maintained and where appropriate implement such processes in the wider development organisation.
- Work with technical and functional teams to design extensions to the existing applications functionality.
- Mentor and coach a small group of less experienced Specialists ensuring they have the skills and knowledge in order to perform their roles.
- Support implementation of specific application/s in each specific country / region.

Education & Qualifications

- University degree or equivalent preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or similar
- Where applicable a recognised professional qualification is desirable.

Experience

- At least 8+ years experience in deployment or support of application software, implementing systems and modules with experience of multiple full lifecycle implementations.
- Formal project management training desirable
JRockit
Oracle Entitlements Server/Oracle Web Services Manager
Oracle Enterprise Repository
Experience of Airline or otherTravel industry.

Knowledge & Skills

- Essential: Experience of implementing SOA in a WebLogic/Oracle Service Bus using Java; understanding of key concepts and Web Service/XML standards including versioning.
- Good knowledge of build and deployment practices in a J2EE environment (including Maven, Artifactory)
- The ability to be the lead technical role on complex projects (size or scope) overseeing requirement analysis through implementation and/or support
- Costing projects of medium complexity
- Understands the customer's business objectives for assigned projects
- SITA development and project tools, such as version control, debugging
- Manages project documentation in ePM for change control, risks and issues log and project planning.
- Coordinates multiple technical streams of work to produce a complete solution
- High-level designs for small to medium systems/applications with input from more experienced staff
- Resolves very complex problems in QA / Architecture
- Understands the concept of IT security and its application to computer systems architecture.
- Expert knowledge of and ability to apply advanced software development principles, theories, programming languages, concepts and techniques.
- Expert understanding of system integration and hardware
- Superior understanding of SITA methodologies and practices
- Understanding trade-offs and risks with technical choices
- Ability to analyse complex problems in a multi-tier system and break down into self-contained pieces of work.
- At least one member of the team is required to have deeper experience of Oracle databases, including some profiling tuning expertise.
- Java diagnostic tools
- Ability to grow understanding of the business domain
- Ability to document and explain issues to a wide audience including developers and 3rd party suppliers
- Experience of Agile

Profession Competencies

Planning & Organising
Analytical Skills
Project Management
Applications Support
Infrastructure/Platforms
Problem Solving
Technical Communication
Application Development
Telecommunications Network
Business Analysis
Quality Assurance& Integration

Core Competencies

Adhering to Principles & Values
Creating & Innovating
Customer Focus
Results Orientation
Teamwork
Communication
Impact & Influence
Leading Execution

Additional Information

- Essential: Experience of implementing SOA in a WebLogic/Oracle Service Bus using Java; understanding of key concepts and Web Service/XML standards including versioning.

SITA Overview

We are the world's leading specialists in air transport communications and IT solutions.
We deliver and manage business solutions for airline, airport, GDS, government and other customers over the world's most extensive network, which forms the communications backbone of the global air transport industry.
Created and owned by the air transport community, SITA is the community's dedicated partner for information and communications technology. As a team of industry experts, our know-how is based on working with customers across the global air transport community. Almost every airline and airport in the world does business with SITA.
With a customer service team of over 1,700 staff around the world, we invest significantly in achieving best-in-class customer service, providing integrated local and global support for both our communications and IT application services.


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