
Senior Consultant Specialist
- Xi'an, Shaanxi
- Contract
- Full-time
- Work as part of Global Digital Engineering team with responsibility for API delivery
- Collaborate with API Architects & Technical Platform Architects to understand& feedback for the established API best practice
- Work with Global Enterprise/Solution Architects to review end-to-end technical design.
- Lead engineers to work on API delivery including API development & deployment with good quality & on schedule
- Review/Ensure the technical design/code structure is technically coherent and future proof and compliance with technology standards and regulatory obligations
- Identify any issues that may arise to delivery risk, formulate preventive actions or corrective measures and timely escalate major project risks & issues to senior management
- Define project scope, list out priority of all items in project
- Set up team goals, ensure every teammate aware and excute goal with time line
- Define develop detailed project plan and schedules, ensure pod team delivery by the project plan
- Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders, make all stackholder aware project status and fix the block during delivery
- Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure their requirements are met no matter scope but also for quality
- Provide professional consultancy/support immediately for application teams’ queries/requests.
- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline
- Solid and proficient skills in Java, Spring Framework, Web Service, JSON, RAML
- Knowledge or experience in Enterprise Integration Platform (EIP) and API design with implementation experience on any ESB tools (e.g. IIB , Kong, MQ, SpringBoot)
- Knowledge and experience of DevOps, Microservice, Restful API, Agile concepts. SAFe Agilist certificate is a plus.
- Knowledge of DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Splunk, Jira/Confluence, AppD, Docker, Kubernetes
- Solid knowledge of SQL, DDL and database design
- Solid knowledge of BDD, Continuous Integration, Selenium, continuous deployment and testing
- Solid knowledge of external cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, or Ali Cloud
- Track record in working on the delivery of complex deployment projects and under diversified/ matrix structure
- Strong business sense with good understanding in how IT systems impact business objectives
- Strong communication, presentation & influencing skills, able to operate well across cultures and in multi-cultural, diverse work environments
- Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills
- Excellent team player with ability to work under minimal supervision
- Strong project planning and management skill, including but not limited in define project scope, goal, plan, schedule, monitor&track project progress and deliverables
- Strong stakeholder management including communicate project status, stakeholder expectations
- Strong risk management skill including but not limited in clear blocker, discover potential risk, fix risk and issue
- Strong team coordination including but not limited in lead and motivate the development team, facilitate commucation and collaboration among team members
- Strong quality assurance capability, ensure that the project meets quality standards, implement best practices and processes for development and delivery
- Good command of written and spoken English. Mandarin is also preferred
- Able to work at flexible hour for late evening meeting with colleagues in various regions, API deployment & production support
- Able to work under pressure
- Willing to learn/explore various technologies especially in Integration domain