Integration Engineer (7 Month FTC)
A bit about the role
We are transforming our Selfridges Integration platform and bringing the capabilities in house and have an exciting opportunity for an Integration Engineer (Maternity cover) to join our rapidly expanding teams based in our London office.
Your vision and ambition will contribute to shaping our Integration technology and influence our future technical direction. This is not necessarily a hands-on role, but you would have the expertise and experience to challenge and guide our engineering and operations teams.
Responsibilities:
Work as an integration SME and first point of contact for any integration platform related queries across estate
Assure the Integration platforms for both prod and non-prod services across Selfridges technology landscape from an application perspective.
Organise and lead technical design and high-level scoping sessions while working closely with the team on best ways forward.
Working closely with other teams especially when working on cross team initiatives.
Ensure on time delivery of quality integration deliverables within projects and BAU, improved tracking and review of the integration related activities, ensuring zero/low number of defects in Live Service and minimize planned impact to the business during deployments.
Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing Cloud technologies and help introduce them where appropriate.
Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by ensuring best practices and processes are followed, as well as track any technical debts and risks.
Ensure the platform health is maintained with timely upgrades and robust capacity management.
Look for areas of improvement across the Integration platforms and contribute to the domain strategy in line with the overall Integration Platform strategy.
A bit about you
Great engineering – Knowledge of Integration principles and practices and the ability to apply meaningfully to system integrations. Your responsibility will span across engineering and operations.
Leadership and Coaching - You’re highly proactive, you take ownership of problems and propose solutions. Using your knowledge and experience, you will drive improvements across the team.
Flexible delivery - Your delivery supports both Waterfall and agile methodology, reducing risk and creating a fast feedback loop.
You effectively work with vendors and external partner support services to obtain solutions and/or workarounds that are acceptable to business operations.
You are willing to support potential out of hours calls.
Skills:
Experience in design, development, testing and deployment of Service Oriented Architecture based applications or ETL tools like for Oracle Fusion Middleware, IBM IIB, MuleSoft, WebMethod or similar Middleware technologies.
Experience in XML, XSLT, XSD’s, SOAP, REST and other widely used protocols in Integration space.
Experience in using JMS/MQ for building messaging related solutions.
Good understanding of batch/ETL concepts.
Adept at drilling down to the point of failure and investigating specific issues independently.
Coordinate with the technical teams, DBAs, IT Infrastructure, Technical consultants and/or other Functional consultants for implementing bug fixes/ SR resolution.
Ability to diagnose problems and come up with solutions and/or workarounds in a fast-paced environment and effectively communicate with business and technical team members in a timely manner.
