Solution Lead
At Cathay Pacific, we share one common aspiration: to be the world's best airline. We believe in looking for the best in our people, in working as a team, in doing the right thing by our shareholders and our communities.
With a global team, we offer a diverse range of career choices and opportunities - in the air, on the ground; in customer service, in the office; managerial or professional roles. Our team of great people each plays a key role to deliver the quality service that we are famous for.
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This role is responsible for understanding business needs and driving technology direction and solution delivery within a business domain.
Responsibilities
Business Engagement
-Support pre-project consulting for a portfolio pipeline of initiatives
-Capture and communicate business direction, challenges and requirements
-Support business process change
-Recommends commercially and technically viable ideas to improve the business performance
Technology Design and Implementation
-Work closely with the developers, analyst and architects to architect and develop the best technical design. Conceptualise and propose solution approaches
-Planning, designing, developing, implementing, and supporting IT products and applications to meet the customer needs
-Provide an escalation point for solution analysts in order to deliver business solutions that include technology implementations and/or adaptations
-Recommends and implements simple continuous improvement of standard Cathay IT Practices
-Keep abreast of latest trends in technology, industry and corresponding business domain
-Responsible for application maintenance and striving for continuous improvements within the application lifecycle
Project Delivery
-Focus on small to medium scale initiatives
-Initiate, define, plan and execute tasks / initiatives
-Test all solution aspects including but not limited to security, performance, integration
-Facilitate project progress through relevant gates
-Manage the day-to-day activities of the software development team and external 3rd parties as required
People Management
-Contribute to team resource planning
-Manage external 3rd parties as required
The Solution Lead may also:
-Be directly involved in implement solutions in an Agile development team
-Directly manage one or more Solution Analysts
-Perform the role of surrogate Product Owner / BU SME (generally Senior)
-Coach Solution Analysts on any aspect of their role
E&A Responsibility
-Emergency and Accident and Crisis Response responsibilities as required
-Support pre-project consulting for a portfolio pipeline of initiatives
-Capture and communicate business direction, challenges and requirements
-Support business process change
-Recommends commercially and technically viable ideas to improve the business performance
Technology Design and Implementation
-Work closely with the developers, analyst and architects to architect and develop the best technical design. Conceptualise and propose solution approaches
-Planning, designing, developing, implementing, and supporting IT products and applications to meet the customer needs
-Provide an escalation point for solution analysts in order to deliver business solutions that include technology implementations and/or adaptations
-Recommends and implements simple continuous improvement of standard Cathay IT Practices
-Keep abreast of latest trends in technology, industry and corresponding business domain
-Responsible for application maintenance and striving for continuous improvements within the application lifecycle
Project Delivery
-Focus on small to medium scale initiatives
-Initiate, define, plan and execute tasks / initiatives
-Test all solution aspects including but not limited to security, performance, integration
-Facilitate project progress through relevant gates
-Manage the day-to-day activities of the software development team and external 3rd parties as required
People Management
-Contribute to team resource planning
-Manage external 3rd parties as required
The Solution Lead may also:
-Be directly involved in implement solutions in an Agile development team
-Directly manage one or more Solution Analysts
-Perform the role of surrogate Product Owner / BU SME (generally Senior)
-Coach Solution Analysts on any aspect of their role
E&A Responsibility
-Emergency and Accident and Crisis Response responsibilities as required
Requirements
-Degree qualification in Information Technology related discipline, Masters preferred
-8+ years of related IT experience covering but not limited to:
Software development
System analysis
Business analysis
Solution definition
System Testing
-Client facing experience with successful relationship management is a plus
-Proven verbal and written communication skill
-Professional, passionate, innovative, self-motivated and able to present solutions to diverse groups of stakeholders
-Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
-Proven troubleshooting skills; ability to identify patterns and generate ideas
-Airline or travel industry knowledge is highly beneficial
-Solid software development skill is highly beneficial
-8+ years of related IT experience covering but not limited to:
Software development
System analysis
Business analysis
Solution definition
System Testing
-Client facing experience with successful relationship management is a plus
-Proven verbal and written communication skill
-Professional, passionate, innovative, self-motivated and able to present solutions to diverse groups of stakeholders
-Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
-Proven troubleshooting skills; ability to identify patterns and generate ideas
-Airline or travel industry knowledge is highly beneficial
-Solid software development skill is highly beneficial
Salary
Negotiable
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