Job Ref: 213540083

Date: 2021-04-14 11:02:02

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Welcome Break is one of the largest motorway service operators in the UK and has led the revolution in changing the motorway service sector.

We've been around for 60 years and are now in locations across the UK. Our 5,000+ strong team strive to proudly and passionately offer our customers' world class hospitality and retail brands such as Waitrose, Starbucks, Subway, KFC, Ramada, Days Inn and Burger King to name a few in a friendly and relaxing environment.

Our business is about people, the 80 million people who visit our sites each year and the teams who make the business the success it is. Every one deserves to get a warm welcome and enjoyable break with the very best service, facilities, food and drinks we can provide.

Providing customers with a welcome break is really important to us. Every day here is as challenging as it is enjoyable, as rewarding as it is fun. We believe that the same should be true once our working day is over, so we do everything we can to make sure our teams can get their work/life balance just right!

Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed at Welcome Break. To make sure that those achievements are recognised, we have many recognition schemes, most of which are peer to peer recognition. What's more, we work hard to build a culture of openness, listening to customers and our own people so we can identify opportunities to improve service, innovation and engagement.

IT Integration Specialist
Welcome Break Support Centre, MK16 9EZ
Full time position
Salary upto £35,000k depending on experience
Fantastic benefits & discounts, free parking & great career opportunities

This role works within the IT team to plan, design and deliver cross application integration as well as supporting the existing data architecture. This role will also be responsible for platform level integrations, as well as assisting with the maintenance of the data infrastructure within a retail / hospitality business.

This role would suit a Junior Developer with experience in API management who wants to take the next step towards a Data Architect position.

Responsibilities

* Design, document and develop application integration solutions, via API and direct database connections.
* Support the Data Architect in maintaining the Data infrastructure
* Assist the wider business with queries regarding data flow, reporting, and integration requirements.
* Ensure that project/product technical options are considered, and recommended approaches are clearly designed with valuable solutions. All project/product technical issues and risks should be managed appropriately and resolved.
* To understand the direction of the business, its imperatives, its future challenges and how these may be supported by an appropriate overarching IT architecture and principles
* Understand the current or "as is" state of the IT architecture and the path required to move this to the future "to be" state recognising that this target will constantly be moving away

Your experience

* Experience with web services/APIs, and tools used to integrate with them
* A basic understanding of relational databases and the transact-SQL language.
* The ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbal) regarding architectural designs, and technological concepts to technical and non-technical staff. To present in a clear, succinct way, architectural concepts and designs to senior and technical stakeholders.
* Proven problem-solving skills, with the ability to ‘think outside the box' and deliver initially challenging functionality within compliance and security constraints.
* The ability to apply knowledge and experience to work independently and solve technical problems through well architected designs as well as adapting to and assimilating new technologies within your approach

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