Solution Lead
Cathay Pacific
- Guangzhou, Guangdong
- Permanent
- Full-time
- IMT - Information Technology
- Guangzhou, Chinese mainland
- Cathay Pacific
- Application Deadline
- Applicants must have the right to live and work in Chinese mainland.
- Once employment is confirmed, the employment contract and personnel file will be arranged through local FESCO/ FASCO.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Contribute to team resource planning
- Manage external 3rd parties as required
- 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
- Emergency and Accident and Crisis Response responsibilities as required
- Bachelor degree or above, 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
- Solid experience in systems analysis and software development, with sound knowledge and experience in some of the below areas:
- Front-end framework, responsive web design and scripts such as HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, AngularJS and ReactJS, Websockets and JSON.
- Secure, robust and high transaction volume web development with Spring boot, J2EE, Node.JS, Adobe Experience Manager, web accessibility and Search Engine Optimization
- API and micro-services development
- Open Source Technology and its managed cloud services such as Java, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB.
- Implementation and operation of reference architecture, resources and services on Public Clouds.
- Docker configuration of Tomcat Application Server, Adobe Experience Manager.
- CI/CD and monitoring tools (e.g Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and AppDynamics).
- Knowledge on database design and ETL tools.