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Job Summary
The Lead Engineer – Integration Services role supports MVW business lines globally. Develops technical specifications and software for MVW applications; providing end-to-end technical services to facilitate the effective delivery of optimal solutions that meets MVW business objectives. Responsible for developing software based on best practices, and DevOps capabilities. Provides oversight and ensures software developed by third party system integrators is compliant with MVW Technical Standards.
Expected Contributions
- Supports technical architects in performing research, analysis, and design of technical solutions to meet current and future user requirements.
- Responsible for technical software design, development, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Leads efforts to implement technical solutions from the design specifications.
- Responsible for application technical design, code and system implementation.
- Provides input/expertise for project estimation, work plan development and staffing.
- May supervise a work team, providing input to performance review, mentoring on technology.
- Partners with third-party vendor on-shore and off-shore teams to ensure their work products comply with MVW technical standards.
- Continuously keeps up to date with new technology and IT processes.
- Contributes to MVW Best Practices Library by creating or enhancing standards.
- Contributes to enhancing DevOps capabilities.
- Performs other duties as appropriate.
Candidate Profile
Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Certifications Preferred
- MuleSoft Developer Certification
Experience
- 5-8 years of experience in application development, with a focus on the travel, hospitality, and timeshare industries desirable.
- Strong technical skills, with expertise in applications such as contract management systems, reservation systems, property management systems, and timeshare management applications.
- Proven experience implementing software solutions in the Integrations area especially using MuleSoft and Kafka.
- Experience leading and mentoring technical teams, with a focus on developing talent and promoting a collaborative work environment.
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards, particularly in the travel and hospitality sectors
- ITIL certification and experience with IT service management practices is a plus.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a focus on delivering high-quality services.
- Must have strong customer service skills to ensure that all users are satisfied with the services provided by the team.
Skills/Attributes
- Analytical and Strategic Thinking
- Strategic Thinking: ability to develop and implement long-term plans and strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team and applications.
- Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze data and metrics to assess the performance and impact of applications/systems and impact of any major incidents.
- Technical
- Solid understanding of microservices based Architecture including experience with designing and developing APIs on the MuleSoft ESB platform.
- Experience in designing, developing server-side enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, Springboot, SQL, Kafka and similar technologies.
- Strong emphasis on application of patterns and data structures, as appropriate.
- Solid understanding of transaction management, thread safety and thread management, database design and query optimization.
- Experienced in code optimization & performance tuning of various applications.
- Experienced in delivering projects using waterfall and agile methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience integrating systems in multi-user, multi-platform environments.
- Ability to analyze, absorb, advocate, and apply rapidly changing technologies and apply them as part of integrated solutions to business requirements.
- Experience with common SDLC tools (Maven, Jenkins, Jira, Splunk, GitHub, OpenShift etc.).
- Work Management Skills
- Requirement Analysis: Skills in gathering and analyzing business requirements to meet organizational needs.
- Planning and Execution: Ability to plan, execute, and manage business requests, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget while meeting technical and quality requirements.
- Interpersonal Skills
- Communication: Proven verbal and written communication skills to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in easy-to-understand ways.
- Customer Focus: Commitment to a strong customer service orientation to understand and address client needs effectively.
- Collaboration: Proven ability to collaborate within the Global Technology organization at all levels, vendors, and Managed Service providers to architect solutions and oversee successful project implementations.
- Leadership Courage: Ability to lead and motivate teams, driving successful incident and problem management solution.
- Additional Attributes
- Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing organizational dynamics within a matrixed organizational structure.
- Curiosity and Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying updated with latest technologies and tools in the market to improve the operational stability and best practices.
- Coaching and Training: Ability to identify critical learning objectives for user groups and partner with learning program designers in support of developing technical training programs and collateral. Proven ability to deliver both in class and on-line technical training sessions.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on root cause analysis and process improvement. Proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential issues before they escalate.
- Attention to Detail: Ensuring accuracy and thoroughness in all aspects of application development.
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