Senior Software Engineer

Collinson is the global privatelyowned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide marketleading airport experiences loyalty and customer engagement and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass the worlds original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1500 lounges and travel experiences including dining retail sleep and spa in over 650 airports in 148 countries helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the worlds leading payment networks over 1400 banks 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.


We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.


Key clients include Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.


Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.


Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1800 global colleagues.

Purpose of the job

The Engineering Team is responsible for maintaining and enhancing our strategic platform whichsupports our core Insurance functions.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be a key member of this team which delivers functionalityusing the Agile delivery methodology. You will be responsible for contributing to the design anddevelopment of pragmatic complete and maintainable software solutions under the guidance of aPrincipal Software Engineer to the agreed development plan and to approved specifications.

You will have the opportunity to work with cuttingedge technologies and experience all aspects of thesoftware development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Develop products processes or standards in support of the business strategies under theguidance of more senior members of the team

Develop collaborative relationships with both external and internal stakeholders

Resolve daytoday challenges or issues without the need for technical guidance

Support the Engineering Team on new and existing systems as required on a projectbyprojectbasis

Participate in out of hours support rota responding to advance support issues

Deliver Software and Documentation of a high quality which adheres to our standards

Maintain a good technical awareness and familiarity with new and forthcoming relevant Technologies

Provide detailed planning input on estimated effort to develop certain modules/functions

Contribute to software analysis design and specification tasks for specific modules/functions

Provide competent proactive and professional Technical Support when required to customers and clients

Actively engage in and contribute to agile planning and design sessions

Support agile process improvements that will improve productivity effectiveness and professionalism of the team without impacting budgets and delivery plans

Contribute to the Code Peer Review community to improve the quality of Software Development

Participate in regular team meetings to ensure the correct tasks are being worked on and share key decisions required risks identified and highlight any issues encountered

Support Develop and Improve our Continuous Integration pipelines

Knowledge skills and experience required

Required:

University Degree in computer science computer science engineering or related experiencerequired
At least 5 years experience with similar technical systems or an application software developmentrole in both agile and structured project environments
Experience with Scrum Kanban or another Agile application development methodology
Experience of working across multiple delivery organisations practising distributed development

Specific Technical Skills:

Understanding of ObjectOriented software analysis and design methodology experience includingSOA
Solid experience with .NET Web stack (.NET 6 C# Web API)
Experience with AWS or Azure Cloud Platforms
Technical capability to develop databases and structure efficient queries (SQL NoSQL)
Experience in maintaining CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity Octopus Deploy)
Knowledge of Caching Technologies (Redis ElastiCache)
Solid experience working with unit testing frameworks and experience of integration testing toensure and maintain code quality (NUnit Moq SpecFlow)
Understanding of modern application architectures
Scripting experience (PowerShell Python)
Usage of Source Control tools (GitHub)

Personal Skills:

The ability to demonstrate through examples the effective management of stakeholderrelationships
Excellent written and spoken English
Personable enthusiastic and a good communicator (ability to present inform and guide others)
Ability to bridge communications between technical and business focussed groups
Enthusiastic about technology willingness to learn about new and emerging technology withinweb cloud languages frameworks and methodologies
Ability to thrive in a fast moving and changing environment
Ability to show initiative and to work independently
Willingness to take on a variety of roles and responsibilities

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoing success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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