Solution Lead

4 months ago

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China Cathay Pacific Full time
Role Introduction

Reports to: Senior Solution Lead

This role is responsible for understanding business needs and driving technology direction and solution delivery within a business domain.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work with key resources including business units. IM and vendors to conceptualise and derive solution approaches
  • Drive and challenge the business units on their assumptions and justifications of how they will realistically execute the business plans and realize the benefits
  • Elicit business requirements or product backlog user stories using essential techniques such as interviews, workshops, use cases and workflow analysis
  • Analyse workflow and tasks to generate business process documentation which
    describes the business framework, business rules and role category
  • Prepare and support business case
  • Maintain regular and timely communications with project stakeholders throughout the  project life cycle to ensure risks/issues are addressed and impacts are escalated
  • Keep abreast of the corporate technology and tools, business strategy and plans
  • As one of the key team members in product vertical team to  
    • Analyse requirements and assess detailed solutions options from a system perspective
    • Support solution design and contribute expertise and detailed knowledge to ensure high level design decisions be able to deliver.
    • Ensure requirements, technical details and solutions are documented into the knowledge portal for software development projects and support.
    • Carry out application development and coach the vendors on development and implementation work.
    • Oversee and QA the development of all solution components ensuring this meets requirements and complies with all relevant Cathay Pacific standards.
    • Carry out level 2 and level 3 incident supports for in-production systems and manage end user expectations.
  • Contribute and follow standards and frameworks for development.
  • Collaborate with other IM domains to drive innovation.
  • Keep abreast of the business strategy, business plan and latest industrial trends
  • Participate in Scrum activities as Subject Matter Expert to identify and understand  business processes, available technology solutions and their configuration and management to provide seamless, integrated solutions
  • Be committed to the agile values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver value to our customers.
  • Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
  • Ensure the proper use of collaborative processes and remove impediments for the team.
  • Organise and facilitate agile ceremonies, and decision-making processes, including demo and product testing.
  • Support Product Owner and stakeholders with creating transparency on team progress
  • Track necessary delivery processes, deliverables, and financials.
  • Ensure the Scaled Agile Framework, IT standards and procedures are effectively implemented at team level
  • Facilitate all agile team activities, such as Program Increment Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, System Demos, and Retrospectives
Requirements
  • A minimum of 8 years of IT experience with at least 3 years in Application Development. 
  • Tertiary qualifications are essential. 
  • Good attitude with strong interpersonal skills; promoting healthy relationships and team dynamics with internal and external stakeholders. 
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity; strong troubleshooting skills; ability to identify patterns and generate ideas. 
  • Proven experience in working with both waterfall and agile development process 
  • Agile Scrum or SAFe certified is preferred 
  • Proven experience in applying Software Engineering best practices and techniques such as structured analysis, use cases and formal estimation. 
  • Ability to listen and articulate ideas verbally and in written formats to a broad range of audiences; ability to ask probing questions and deliver presentations. 
  • Focus on the end user’s or customer’s needs; ability to set expectations and understand end user behaviour. 
  • Ability to take raw product requirements and develop software architectures and designs to bring them to life. 
  • Ability and willingness to proactively accept and drive change to accomplish positive collective outcomes. 
  • Solid experience in implementing the secure e-commerce high transaction volume application at enterprise scale and traffic. A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects. 
  • Solid experience in systems analysis and software development, with sound knowledge and experience in some of the below areas: 
    • Front-end framework, responsive web design and scripts such as HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, AngularJS and ReactJS, Websockets and JSON. 
    • Secure, robust and high transaction volume web development with Spring boot, J2EE, [...], Adobe Experience Manager, web accessibility and Search Engine Optimization 
    • API and micro-services development 
    • Open Source Technology and its managed cloud services such as Java, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB. 
    • Implementation and operation of reference architecture, resources and services on Public Clouds. 
    • Docker configuration of Tomcat Application Server, Adobe Experience Manager. 
    • CI/CD and monitoring tools (e.g Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and AppDynamics). 
    • Knowledge on database design and ETL tools. 
  • Technical diagram drawing tools to facilitate discussion among the team 
  • Knowledge and experience of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations 
  • Experience developing software foundations and environments for application development. Good understanding of technology concepts, trends and capabilities. 
  • Passion with new technologies and as a fast learner in picking up business and technical knowledge. 
  • Relevant business domain experience in Airlines and B2C. 
  • Occasional non-office hour work will be required for application support and release. 
  • Candidates with less experience may be considered as Solution Analyst. 
Personal & Application Information

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