Integration Engineer (SOA)

Role Responsibility

We are transforming our Selfridges Integration platform and bringing the capabilities in house and have an exciting opportunity for an Integration Engineer (SOA) 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:  

• Assure the SOA platform 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.  
• Provide functional and technical assurance for the current and future messaging platforms.  
• 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 SOA platform and contribute to the domain strategy in line with the overall Integration Platform strategy. 

Requirements:  

• Great engineering – Knowledge of SOA 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.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience in design, development, testing and deployment of SOA Suite(12c) and OSB/ESB based applications for Oracle SOA product(12c) suite or similar Middleware technologies.
• Experience in BPEL orchestration and using Mediator, Adapters, Business rules, XML, XSLT, XSD’s, SOAP, REST and other protocols.
• Experience in using JMS (QUEUE and TOPIC) for building messaging related solutions.
• Adept at drilling down to the point of failure and investigating specific issues independently.
• Experience securing SOA processes, especially data-in-motion as per WSSECURITY standard.
• Coordinate with the technical team, Oracle support, DBA, IT Infrastructure, Technical consultant 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.

About the Company

Our Creative Spirit 

We are more than a shop. We are a social space where culture and commerce collide to release an energy that we call the Selfridges spirit. We are here to make our world brighter, and everyone is welcome. 

Our Awards Cabinet 

We’re not ones to brag, but since you asked...Selfridges has won the award for The World’s Best Department Store an unprecedented four times at the IGDS awards, with an additional award for the Best Sustainability Campaign. We were also recognised as a ‘Best 25 Big Company to Work For 2020’ as awarded by The Sunday Times.

Our Future 

Since 1909 we have been at the forefront of retail and today our stores in London, Manchester and Birmingham – alongside selfridges.com and the Selfridges App – continue to redefine the way we shop and socialise. As a Selfridges team member, you will learn what it takes to consistently drive innovation, success and amazing customer experiences. 

Everyone is welcome

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive working culture, and we see this as key to our success and our working culture. Here at Selfridges, everyone is welcome - irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age or disability, we stand by equal opportunities for all. We are diverse, we are inclusive, we are Selfridges.

The Fun Stuff  

There are lots of reasons to be excited about joining Team Selfridges – from our fantastic team member communities to volunteer days and behind-the-scenes Selfridges experiences throughout the year. 

Other benefits and rewards include:

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme 
• Discounted gym memberships 
• Pension contributions  
• Annual travel pass and cycle to work schemes 
• Up to five paid volunteering days
• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development