Enterprise Integration Developer

Job reference number 106859 Enterprise Integration Developer Full time Permanent Royal Mail Farringdon About Us The Royal Mail Technology team is passionate about delivering high-quality products and outstanding digital experiences to our customers. Technology is instrumental in helping us achieve our objective to be recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe. With a workforce of 150,000, our core network handles c.16 billion letters and c.1 billion parcels a year, delivering to more than 29 million addresses, 6 days a week. Our technology vision is to “Enable, Digitise, Realise”. Your role in the team As an Integration Developer, you'll be applying your technical skills and knowledge across all areas of Royal Mail Group. This role focuses on supporting the existing Integration estate but also adapting it for a hybrid cloud environment. Royal Mail are using cutting edge cloud providers, like Google and Microsoft, to update and innovate new business solutions. Extensive use of DevOps processes and Agile methods to deliver solutions. You will be supporting project’s integration needs, working with Solution Architects to form solutions based on a defined integration framework. Royal Mail is a good place to learn and progress to leadership roles such as Lead Developer or Solution Architect. You’ll be joining the team at an interesting time as we explorer what is new in IBM’s offering as well as help in proof of concept work to try out newer, more API driven technologies out there. They’ll always be scope to learn something new. You’ll be in regular conversation with other technically minded folks but also be able to explain the value of your suggestions to non-technical people (so, great communication skills are important). Skills needed The fundamental skills required are that of IBM middleware technologies: IBM Integration Bus / App Connect Enterprise IBM MQ IBM DataPower IBM App Connect Any knowledge of other integration technologies (such as Tibco and Mulesoft) would also be of benefit but isn’t mandatory. Experience of Kubernetes also an optional but very useful skill to have. Proven experience of integration solutions using IBM software. Understanding of good SDLC techniques, such as test driven development, strict config management (git) and code quality. What we offer When you join the team you will receive a Competitive Salary & Bonus, Car allowance, you’ll get 25 days holiday (as well as the 8 bank holidays) scheme, pension, life assurance and many other benefits. We are an inclusive employer with equality, diversity and fairness at the heart of our values. We welcome applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and are committed to promoting fair participation and equality of opportunity for all of our job applicants. We’re proud to be in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2019 for a 6th consecutive year. We are happy to have a conversation about flexible working, depending on the role and subject to business needs. LI-POST RMG About Royal Mail: The Royal Mail Technology team is passionate about delivering high-quality products and outstanding digital experiences to our customers. Technology is instrumental in helping us achieve our objective to be recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe With a workforce of almost 160,000, our core network handles c.14 billion letters and c.1.8 billion parcels a year, delivering to c. 30 million addresses, 6 days a week. Our technology therefore needs to operate at scale. As a data driven business, with the largest PDA estate in the country, our systems need to handle more than 60m scan events and 1.4bn data points per day. Royal Mail is committed to building an internal development and testing capability, driving digital innovation across the business enabling our business to transform at pace. You will be working for a brand that’s a household name and a critical part of the UK’s infrastructure. Our technology vision is to “Enable, Digitise, Realise”: Enable - Create environments where open conversations are the norm and where teams work alongside each other to complement skills. Digitise - Utilise Technology to support the business. Making Technology thinking integral to the business. Increase the level of automation and implement connected systems. Realise - Invest in technology and keep taking all opportunities to consolidate systems. Focus on removing complexity within our systems and enable our cost base to decrease. We are fully embracing Agile and DevOps, and using tools such as Alexa, Azure and Google Cloud, Chatbot, Microsoft .NET Core, Angular and mobile apps. Our priorities include: Our postmen/women use 80,000 Android mobile devices and we are continuing to roll out new Apps all the time to help them to deliver a first class customer service. International business is one of our fastest growing areas - our IT systems have to integrate with IT systems in over 200 different territories in order for customers to track their parcels around the world. Continuously expanding our services to our customers, utilising predictive analytics and personalised services. Transforming our customer’s digital journey’s through our website which is in the top 50 most visited UK websites – with 300m visits per annum, from 100m devices, resulting in 1bn page views, with 9.2m registered users, 20m unique visitors per month, and peaking at 7m visits per day during the Christmas peak. We are an inclusive employer with equality, diversity and fairness at the heart of our values and we’re proud to be recognised in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2019 for a 6th consecutive year. We welcome applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and are committed to promoting fair participation and equality of opportunity for all of our job applicants. We are happy to have a conversation about flexible working, depending on the role and subject to business needs. Closing Date: 22/04/2020. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached. Job Segment: Bank, Banking, Developer, System Administrator, .NET, Finance, Technology