Senior Engineer - Integration Solutions

WestJet Group • Calgary, AB

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Engineer is accountable to design, develop, implement, and support integration platforms/solutions. This role will collaborate closely with data analytics, cybersecurity, architecture, and product engineering teams. You are the technical lead of our integration platforms, solutions, and delivery partners, leveraging modern practices and tooling to enable our business.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, and 10+ years’ experience, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
• 8+ years Azure cloud experience: have used a wide array of Azure resources and selecting appropriate resources that solve complex business process/issues
• 5+ years working with agile DevOps teams
• 10+ years of Java Spring Boot development and Spring Framework/components
• 5+ years leading technical delivery
• Highly experienced in event-driven development especially using Kafka or other messaging, pub-sub systems such as MQ, or Service Bus
• Expert knowledge of Microservices (and API) both in REST and SOAP, containers, and server-less workloads with Docker
• Intimate knowledge of Microservice design patterns and have a good track record of using them effectively
• Expert in building high-performance distributed systems coupled with resiliency, security, and recovery applications
• Expert in managing, transforming, and storing complex data structures
• Broad knowledge of all aspects of IT, including application development, network and system administration, quality assurance, and application and data management
• Requires expert problem-solving skills and advanced interpersonal and communication skills including influencing others

Nice To Haves

• Kubernetes, automated testing frameworks/tools, IIB and DataPower experience
• Experience with ITIL considered an asset

Responsibilities

• Design & develop integration solutions, platforms, guidelines, and standards
• Develop and deliver quality code driving best practices, documentation and knowledge sharing
• Partner with architecture to create detailed designs
• Guides and mentors’ technical staff, and provides advice to management
• Collaborate with technical leaders and developers on enterprise solutions
• Provide recommendations for the integration roadmap related to solutions, platforms, resiliency, scalability, and security
• Participate in requirements gathering and analysis for multiple products/initiatives
• Serves as an advisor to management and drives appropriate actions, while ensuring implementation of compliance and communication protocols
• Engage in daily stand ups, requirements/estimation sessions, code reviews and sprint retrospectives
• Provide developer technical support for complex platforms/solutions
• Often operates in ambiguous situations and provides original/innovative process/technical guidance to others
• Regularly makes decisions under minimal guidance that have a significant impact on the organization
• Provide off business hour on-call support for Integration Solutions in a weekly rotation
• Deploy/Implement solution updates/upgrades into multiple environments
• Manage different priorities and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Hands-on experience in different deployment strategies.
• Experience mentoring/coaching developers and students
• Hands-on experience in platform configuration, policy fine-tuning, optimization, and maintenance

Benefits

• A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win
• Travel privileges for you and your family, effective from your start date
• Savings and Benefit programs that are flexible to meet your specific needs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior