Integration Solution Lead

Bringing True Hospitality to the world.

We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty and a passion for providing True Hospitality.

We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way. With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there's countless opportunities at your fingertips. We're growing; grow with us.

Role Purpose

The Solution Lead role primarily leads, advises, and coaches a team of software developers and support roles. The Solution Lead is an execution-focused leader within a team, providing leadership, technical guidance, and workflow management daily. The Solution Lead triages complex problems escalated by junior team members, explains procedures, and coaches the team members through the escalation. This person will work closely with Scrum Master to ensure work intake is in priority order and with Product Owner to ensure features are well understood.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide technical solutions for complex problems for analyzing, designing, coding, debugging, and documenting software, including interface components, graphical screens, reports, and high-level logic for application system(s).
• Develop strategies for the continued planning, scheduling, and coordination of system tests for reliability, scalability, and maintainability and monitor test results to take or assign required corrective action.
• Leads proofs of concepts and advises Sr. level IT management on strategic decisions concerning legacy and/or new technology.
• Provide expertise in conducting project and code reviews to ensure development conforms to governance, standards, requirements, and the software development life cycle as defined.
• Facilitate the design, development, and implementation of real-time applications in a multi-platform environment.
• Implement complex programs and lead/coordinate project/program and systems documentation according to established IT standards.
• Diagnoses complex problems and leads/coordinates cross-team collaboration to resolve them.
• Provide reports on project development status to software engineering management and other key stakeholders.
• Analyzes the stability and health of our systems/environment utilizing monitoring tools and may be required to produce reports or dashboards.
• Leads system upgrades and complex break/fix solutions.
• Act as subject matter expert in focus area(s) and acts as a lead role for both onshore and offshore vendor/supplier development teams

Key Skills & Experiences

Education- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Experience -

• Typically, at least 10+ years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.
• Experience working with a set of geographically dispersed teams and bringing a holistic view of development projects

Technical skills and Knowledge -

• Strong knowledge and understanding of structured analysis and technical design techniques.
• Strong knowledge in addition to experience in related software architectures and development methodologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to display effective verbal and written communication skills when explaining complex technical issues to various technical and non-technical audiences, including clients, vendors, senior management, and staff.
• Ability to establish and maintain high customer trust and confidence in the software engineering team's knowledge of the customer's business needs.
• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
• Extensive knowledge and development expertise in one or more of the following disciplines required:
• Systems applications including but not limited to: - JAVA, J2EE, OO, OpenAPI, XML, Web ServicesSQL
• AWS/EKS is a must
• AWS (CloudFront/DynamoDB/Elasticache)
• Security & Identity Technologies'

Additional Skills -

• Big Data Technologies (BigQuery, DynamoDB, Kafka)
• Familiar with Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, ETL tools
• SOA middleware architecture
• Apigee
• GEMfire/WMQ/AMQ
• Microservices
• GCP
• Monitoring and Service Tools
• App Dynamics
• Service Now (Nice to have)
• Rally (Nice to have)

We'll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits - including great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you'll become part of the global IHG family - and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together - we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - click here to find out more about us.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

IHG is committed to promoting a culture of inclusion where everyone feels safe, respected and valued. We seek talent from all backgrounds to join our teams, and encourage our colleagues to bring their authentic and best selves to work.

Not Applicable for Colorado Applicants.

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At IHG, we've made a promise. As one of the world's leading hotel groups, we're here to deliver True Hospitality for Good. Making our guests and colleagues feel welcome, cared for, recognised and respected - wherever they are in the world. Want to be part of the journey?

We need people like you to make a difference and create exceptional experiences every single day. Don't just join a growing team of 370,000 colleagues across 100 countries. Let your passion shine. Innovate and collaborate around the world. Embrace your ambition.
Let's Go Further Together.

Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today and let's #GoFurtherTogether.