Job Title: Integration Engineer - A2A

Location: Milton Keynes 

Contract: Permanent 

Hours: Full-time (40 hours per week) 

Grade: 22 

Overview

Looking to work within a vibrant company, combining 25 years of industry expertise with ongoing investment in cutting-edge technology to drive future success? Seeking a role where proactivity is welcomed, with scope to develop and grow?

Be part of an Integration team to manage internal and external integration activities.

Create and maintain agile, reliable and cost-effective technology solutions as and when required by the business, to business specifications and aligned with Enterprise Architecture policies and guidelines.

We are Viking. We provide business supplies and services to help our customers work better - whatever their workplace. We are a single source for everything customers need to be more productive, including the latest technology, core office supplies, print and document services, business services, facilities products, furniture, and school essentials.

About the Role

The  Integration Engineer - A2A role will act as an Integration specialist. They will be responsible for the development, validation and governance of all integration solutions for Viking and its channels. They will be capable of evangelising and advocating integration principles to establish the credibility of the group both internally and externally.

 Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and specification of the core Integration Patterns and services to be implemented by Viking
• Assure the delivery of the integration artefacts to Viking, ensuring they conform to the design principles, standards and guidelines
• Develop relationships with customers, internal and external engineering and business teams to gather requirements
• Promote an agile and flexible approach to Integration design delivery across both internal and external delivery teams
• Design and deliver Integration solutions with intelligent reuse of existing applications, development/purchase of reusable applications and smart integration methods to drive harmonization

 Your Profile

• Experience with Agile delivery methods
• Organisational agility, able to manage ambiguity and effectively problem solve
• Result driven and ability to work under pressure has a focus on innovation management
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
• Strong leadership, mentoring, analytical and technical skills.

 Experience of Technologies

• IBM MQ
• IBM DataPower
• Mule
• Kafka

Benefits: 

• Generous pension (matched contribution up to 6%, of your monthly salary) 
• PMI via AXA for your partner and dependents living in the same house up to 24 years of age 
• Life assurance, including: Free global travel insurance & discounted gym membership 
• Staff discount  
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 27 days after 5 years' service) 
• Car allowance 
• 8 hours paid appointment time per annum 
• £10 pcm contribution towards running costs when you work from home 2 days a week  
• Employee Assistance Programme 
• Free on-site parking
• Subsidised canteen in Leicester 

About Viking:

Looking to work within a vibrant company, combining 25 years of industry expertise with ongoing investment in cutting-edge technology to drive future success? Seeking a role where proactivity is welcomed, with scope to develop and grow?

We are Viking. We provide business supplies and services to help our customers work better - whatever their workplace. We are a single source for everything customers need to be more productive, including the latest technology, core office supplies, print and document services, business services, facilities products, furniture, and school essentials.

Our values:

INTEGRITY

We earn the trust and confidence of employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders by being open, honest and truthful in all that we do.

RESPECT

We treat others the way we want to be treated 

TEAMWORK

We believe in empowering our employees and foster an open and equal approach to teamwork.

INNOVATION

With a culture of creativity and a thirst for intelligent risk-taking, we aspire to do what has not been done before.

ACCOUNTABILITY

We are responsible for achieving and sustaining unprecedented results that create extraordinary value to our shareholders and stakeholders through personal commitment, sensible thrift, collaboration, and shared leadership.