Intergration Lead

Greggs ,
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £45,000 per annum

Overview

Vacancy Details This is a full time permanent role based at Innovate House, Balliol Industrial Park. Join the Family The Integration Lead is responsible for ensuring the delivery of architecture and solutions for all integration work carried out within the Greggs system infrastructure and externally to third parties. The Integration Lead role has two main focuses, day to day solution delivery and the definition and adoption of strategy and direction to ensure an efficient and integrated solution landscape. We believe in growing together – as a united team and working towards the achievement of our vision which is to be a winning brand in the food-on-the-go market. Greggs is a much loved and trusted brand with a strong traditional bakery heritage. Our people are what makes our business successful. We aim to provide our people with a great place to work, where they feel valued by listening, developing and rewarding them. Salary Upto £45,000 depending on experience. Work Pattern Our working hours are usually Monday- Friday, you may be required to work alternative hours to fulfil business needs Responsibilities Strategy The Integration Lead is responsible for the definition of the system integration strategy for Greggs, defining the tools and integration patterns to ensure an efficient and integrated solution landscape. You will work across all Product teams and projects to ensure their delivery is aligned with the strategic integration architecture and quantify the impact of changes on the existing integration. The Integration Lead will act as a governance point for all decisions and issues pertaining to the integration architecture and interface delivery. You will need to work with the existing Developers, Functional analysts, Business Analysts, Operations team and third parties to assess the current interface landscape and define its direction. Delivery The Integration Lead will take ownership of the current integration landscape comprising a mixture of technologies and strategies. They will ensure the landscape is clearly understood, documented and the criticality of each aspect of integration is defined. Based on the current landscape, the strategic direction of Greggs and established best practice they will develop a roadmap for integration such that it can be appropriately monitored, managed and maintained. The Integration Lead will be required to assess, design and deliver changes to the existing interfaces and respond to new requirements to deliver value to the Greggs business and our customers. Skills Strong technical knowledge and practical experience of all integration types including batch and real time integration; including SOA, API and Microservices; utilisation of and transformation between various message formats including JSON, xml, csv. Knowledge of the Azure integration toolset, SAP PI, SAP Cloud Platform. Experience of integrating systems across both on premise and cloud-based environments for internal and external stakeholders. A knowledgeable and practical approach to the design and implementation of an integration architecture. An appreciation of data modelling and data lifecycle management. An understanding of the architectural implications of performance, scalability and extensibility on system design and approaches for high volume transactional integration solutions. Excellent communication, presentation, team management and inter-personal skills. Benefits Our Greggs Employee discount Scheme is very generous, offering you up to 50% off our food Your holiday entitlement starts with 26 days, in addition to Bank Holidays, which increases with service up to a maximum of 30 days after 25 years’ service (pro-rata for part time) After 6 months service you may be eligible for our profit share scheme You will be invited to participate in our Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 12.5% of your salary, subject to the Company meeting certain performance criteria. You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages The Management Pension Scheme is supported by a free life assurance scheme. This is a death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary Other benefits include Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme Share Save and Share Incentive Schemes Employee Assistance Programme Healthcare Plans Cycle to Work Scheme Your Application During the application process we’ll keep in touch every step of the way. We know how big a decision it is for you to apply for a job. Once you do we’ll work hard to keep you up to speed on how your application is progressing. With your help we can make your application as quick and as smooth as possible