Junior Integration Engineer

The Company

SSP is a leading operator of food and beverage outlets in travel locations worldwide, with c.42,000 colleagues in over 600 locations across 37 countries.

We operate sit-down and quick service restaurants, cafes, lounges and food-led convenience stores, principally in airports and train stations, with a portfolio of around 550 international, national and local brands. These include our own brands Upper Crust, Millies Cookies etc. as well as franchise brands such as M&S, Starbucks and Burger King.

Our purpose is to be the best part of the journey, and this is underpinned by our aim to bring leading brands and innovative concepts to our clients and customers around the world, with an emphasis on great value, taste, quality and service.

The Role

Working with architects, technical teams and business stakeholders to pioneer an API led architecture within SSP, using MuleSoft to help continuing to create a culture where integration can happen easily and seamlessly. Accountable for helping design, implement, test and support various IT systems and technologies across the business in an efficient manner. Responsible for helping to move the Group IT function towards a DevOps operating model favouring automation, integration, quality and performance engineering, software development pipelines and infrastructure as code wherever possible. The immediate focus will be working within the MuleSoft Centre for Enablement (C4E), continuing to enable the use of MuleSoft throughout the SSP estate, creating reusable assets and evangelising an API led environment.

Main Duties

• Work with the C4E lead and senior integration engineer to help develop an efficient operating model, establish development practices, establish self-serve asset consumption, and enable the organisation to continue using MuleSoft to unlock assets and data
• Work with technical teams and business users to establish a feedback loop, and continuously improve processes and assets
• Support the evangelisation of MuleSoft using brown bag sessions, API events, hackathons, etc
• Contribute to and help to drive the transformation of culture which will include the training and upskilling of colleagues and business resources
• Work with project teams to support project specific developments using MuleSoft
• Work with our managed service to monitor SSP’s usage of Anypoint Platform, working with the C4E lead and senior integration engineer to establish effective alerting, monitoring and logging, ensuring the platform is used in an optimal way
• Write and communicate technical requirements for new and ongoing projects
• Research and recommend systems, solutions, and technologies
• Work with the project technical leads to help to define, scope and deliver integrated IT solutions utilising Application Programming Interface (API) techniques
• Turn requirements into technical implementations between internal and 3rd party systems and services
• Perform data analysis and recommend, implement, and support solutions for data extraction, enriching, load and interchange

The job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties to achieve business objectives.

Skills/Knowledge Required

Essential

• Proven experience using MuleSoft
• Proven experience developing interfaces (APIs)
• Experience with using Continuous Integration systems such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps
• Proficiency in implementing and delivering business requirements throughout the software development life cycle
• Proficiency in creating and supporting solutions deployed to business teams
• Proficiency in troubleshooting software issues and debugging distributed systems
• Experience of creating technical documentation and interpreting business requirements
• Experience of testing applications, manually or through automation technologies
• Experience working within project delivery for a retail business
• Experience working with testing business requirements
• Experience supporting and performing defect resolution on IT Systems

Desirable

• Experience of using Jira to manage project delivery
• Experience of Value Steam Mapping
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Experience delivering solutions using waterfall and agile methodologies
• Experience of working within a C4E

Belong at SSP:

Great food and drink is diverse by nature. It’s authentic, creates great experiences and brings people together. The same goes for our DEI strategy at SSP. By empowering our colleagues and celebrating our differences, we create great experiences for our people and help them thrive as one global team. Spanning 6 continents, we’re very diverse when it comes to our backgrounds. But it’s so much more than that, it’s listening with humility, taking conscious action, and having the determination to do things right. True diversity, equity and inclusion can only happen when everyone feels able to bring their full self to work.

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at SSP. We are an equal opportunities employer committed to engaging all of our people, so they feel valued and motivated; we champion diversity, promote inclusion, and ensure equality. We respect and protect human rights and prevent discrimination; and we positively impact our communities. We encourage and welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates regardless of background, gender, race, religious beliefs, disability, sexual identity and orientation or age.