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Location: Hong Kong
Job type: Permanent
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Sector: IT & Communications
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Reports to: Senior Solution Lead
Purpose
This role is responsible for understanding business needs and driving technology direction and solution delivery within a business domain.
Key responsibilities and tasks
The Solution Lead, in collaboration with key stakeholders, should understand how and how well the business is supported by the IT product or applications in your area. You are responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of IT product or application with high quality deliverables that are aligned with the business vision and goals by managing a very energetic team using different delivery methodologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Business Engagement
* Support pre-project consulting for a portfolio pipeline of initiatives
* Capture and communicate business direction, challenges and requirements
* Focus on small to medium scale initiatives
* Support business process change
* Recommends commercially and technically viable ideas to improve the business performance
* Develop and maintain a cross departmental view of IT and business
* Technology Design and Implementation
* Work closely with the developers, analyst and architects to architect and develop the best technical design. Conceptualise and propose solution approaches
* Planning, designing, developing, implementing, and supporting IT products and applications to meet the customer needs
* Provide an escalation point for solution analysts in order to deliver business solutions that include technology implementations and/or adaptations
* Recommends and implements simple continuous improvement of standard Cathay IT Practices
* Keep abreast of latest trends in technology, industry and corresponding business domain
Project Delivery
* Focus on medium to large scale initiatives
* Initiate, define, plan and execute tasks / initiatives
* Test all solution aspects including but not limited to security, performance, integration
* Facilitate project progress through relevant gates
* Manage the day-to-day activities of the software development team and external 3rd parties as required
* Identifying areas of risk and prepare strategies for mitigation for the projects
People Management
* Contribute to team resource planning
* Manage external 3rd parties as required
* Keep abreast of latest trends in technology, industry and corresponding business domain
The Solution Lead may also:
* Be directly involved in implement solutions in an Agile development team
* Directly manage one or more Solution Analysts
* Perform the role of surrogate Product Owner / BU SME (generally Senior)
* Coach Solution Analysts on any aspect of their role
Qualifications / Experience
Minimum:
* Degree qualification in Information Technology related discipline, Masters preferred
* 8+ years of related IT experience
* At least 4 years of experience with BI Tools and technologies (data modelling, data integration/ETL, reporting, metadata management, data quality management, data mining, corporate performance management etc.)
* Strong in Database concepts and competence in SQL query and optimization (preferably Oracle PL/SQL)
* Experience with dimensional modelling concepts (star schema, slowly changing dimensions etc.)
* Proven extensive client facing experience with successful relationship management
* Outstanding verbal and written communication skill
* Professional, passionate, innovative, self-motivated and able to present solutions to diverse groups of stakeholders
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
* Proven troubleshooting skills; ability to identify patterns and generate ideas
* Proactive ‘can do’ attitude and sense of urgency
* Airline or travel industry knowledge is highly beneficial
* Solid software development skill is highly beneficial
* Consulting background is highly beneficial
Competencies
* Setting Direction
* Leading and Engaging Teams
* Driving Business Performance and Change
* Developing and Recognising Others
Application deadline : 24 October 2017
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