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SalaryCollinson is the global, privately-owned 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 market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.
Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500+ 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 world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 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 1,800 global colleagues.
The Engineering Team is responsible for maintaining and enhancing our strategic platform which supports our core Insurance functions.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key member of this team which delivers functionality using the Agile delivery methodology. You will be responsible for contributing to the design and development of pragmatic, complete and maintainable software solutions under the guidance of a Principal Software Engineer to the agreed development plan and to approved specifications.
You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and experience all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop products, processes, or standards in support of the business strategies under the guidance of more senior members of the team
- Develop collaborative relationships with both external and internal stakeholders
- Resolve day-to-day challenges or issues without the need for technical guidance
- Support the Engineering Team on new and existing systems as required on a project-by-project basis
- 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 experience required
- At least 5 years’ experience with similar technical systems or an application software development role 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 Object-Oriented software analysis and design methodology experience including SOA
- 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 to ensure 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 stakeholder relationships
- 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 within web, 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 on-going 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.
In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).
If you need any extra support throughout the interview process, then please email us at ukrecruitment@collinsongroup.com
We also have our very own Beacons (Domestic Abuse Advisors) supporting within each of our global offices. Our Beacons will be your point of contact if you or someone you know needs support.
