Senior Lead Specialist Integration Manager | SITA | United Kingdom - London
Senior Lead Specialist Integration Manager
Location: United Kingdom - London |
Full time
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Job opening ID: 7513
Purpose
Lead the development of specific SITA Products or
internal systems and applications using appropriate resources,
processes, methodologies and technologies, in compliance with SITA's
policies and procedures, and industry standards.
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 expert' for multiple large-scale technical projects
that have a significant cross functional business impact ensuring the
solution(s) developed are able to sustain the long-term functional and
business requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead 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.
- Develop end-to-end road map for system testing, sign-off of test
cases, scripts and documentation relating to the functional and
performance testing.
- Advise, implement and manage technical change request processes for
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 high-level technical documentation that supports the products as defined in the requirements.
- Drive the continual improvements of processes to ensure the best
practice is maintained and where appropriate implement such processes in
the wider development organisation.
- Ensure all risks and issues that affect the project are raised
following set processes and are actioned appropriately. Escalate risks
and issues that pose a significant impact to deliverables, but
ultimately responsible for ensuring remedial actions are achieved.
- Work with technical and functional teams to plan and design extensions to the existing applications' functionality.
- Participate in the strategy and vision for the future of existing
products and solutions, ensure and provide guidance where required on
steering committees and / or at industry events.
- Mentor and coach a small group of less experienced Specialists
ensuring they have the skills and knowledge in order to perform their
roles.
- Act as the 'Technical Lead' for 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 10+ 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.
- Gigaspaces and Cisco ACE.
- Oracle Enterprise Repository
- Experience of Airline or other Travel industry.
Knowledge & Skills
- 10+ years of experience in design and development of n-tier architecture based solutions with distributed components.
- Experience of Web Logic Server 11g , Oracle RAC, Oracle Service Bus.
- Exposure to J2EE technology Stack (JSP, Servlets, EJB, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Struts, Web Services)
- Good knowledge of build and deployment practices in a J2EE environment (including Maven, Artifactory)
- Experience of formulating Integration Strategy for service based
development for cross functional development and SOA Middleware strategy
and implementation.
- Strong experience in Integration Architecture, Service Orientated Architecture, SOA Integration Standards and Governance
- Ability to manage, prioritise and provide resolutions for issues in Continuous Integration Environment.
- Strong experience of Continuous Integration and Build practices, with exposure to Jenkins and/or Hudson.
- Ability to document and explain complex issues to a wide audience
including senior management, developers and 3rd party suppliers.
- 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 large 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 significant systems/applications with input from more experienced staff
- Resolves very complex problems in QA / Architecture
- Expert knowledge of and ability to apply advanced software development
principles, theories, programming languages, concepts and techniques.
- Understands the concept of IT security and its application to computer systems architecture.
- Expert understanding of system integration and hardware
- Superior understanding of SITA methodologies and practices
- Understanding trade-offs and risks with technical choices
- Strong Project Management Skills, managing large complex projects
comprising cross-functional dependencies in various domains and
technologies.
- Strong Team Management Skills, managing a specialised technical team.
- 10+ years of experience in design and development of n-tier architecture based solutions with distributed components.
- Exposure to J2EE technology Stack (JSP, Servlets, EJB, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Struts, Web Services)
- Good knowledge of build and deployment practices in a J2EE environment (including Maven, Artifactory)
- Experience of formulating Integration Strategy for service based
development for cross functional development and SOA Middleware strategy
and implementation.
- Strong experience in Integration Architecture, Service Orientated Architecture, SOA Integration Standards and Governance
- Ability to manage, prioritise and provide resolutions for issues in Continuous Integration Environment.
- Strong experience of Continuous Integration and Build practices, with exposure to Jenkins and/or Hudson.
- Experience of Web Logic Server 11g , Oracle RAC, Oracle Service Bus.
- Ability to document and explain complex issues to a wide audience
including senior management, developers and 3rd party suppliers.
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
- Experience of Web Logic Server 11g , Oracle RAC, Oracle Service Bus.
- Exposure to J2EE technology Stack (JSP, Servlets, EJB, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Struts, Web Services)
- Good knowledge of build and deployment practices in a J2EE environment (including Maven, Artifactory)
- Strong experience in Integration Architecture, Service Orientated Architecture, SOA Integration Standards and Governance
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.
http://www.sita.aero/node/11370
