Technical Engineer

As our next Technical Engineer you’ll shape, lead, coordinate, and transition technical change into service. You’ll join our Data Technology Solutions function, based in our Leeds City Centre Office, with working from home capacity.

What You'll Do

• Identify, shape, scope and lead development work.
• Create delivery plans together with underpinning assumptions that show the build effort including design, build, developer testing and route to live processes. Clearly illustrate requirements traceability as part of design activities
• Primary contact for IT, solution architecture, product owners, infrastructure, testing and release. Work with colleagues in these areas to review data solution options to assess impact of new requirements on existing functionality, data and systems including alternative design scenarios. Perform detailed gap analysis between current and future state applications/systems.
• Primary contact for 3rd party delivery partners for sharing of SME knowledge and processes. Understanding third party technology roadmaps and the impacts on YBS systems and the opportunities and threats
• Proactively drive the detailed design; taking ownership for ensuring that it is supportable within the service, meets the business requirements and non-functional requirements are included.

How You’ll Do It

• Expert knowledge of current technologies and platforms. Examples are Oracle (Database, ODI, Pl-SQL), SAP Business Objects, SAP business objects data services, Denodo Virtualisation, MDM solutions, reference data management
• Experience in Meta data driven design for Data pipelines
• Proven communicator at all levels from engaging with senior business leaders to detailed technical conversations with developers and testers.
• Be available for on call support for critical business systems
• Proven ability to manage the work of a development team on a project, directing, guiding and mentoring YBS colleagues, contractors as appropriate.
• Extensive experience of the design, build and implementation of complex application systems
• Proven data modelling and database design capabilities.

If you’ve got a solid background in data provisioning and integration and you want to develop a career in an empowering, respectful and supporting business then why not join us?

Our people are our heart and soul; we’re commercial and caring, big enough to offer you a challenge and small enough for you to make a real impact. We’re devoted to putting people first and doing the right thing by providing real help with real life.