Role Introduction
This role is responsible for understanding business needs and driving technology direction and solution delivery within a business domain.
Key Responsibilities
The Solution Lead (SL) is responsible for delivery of high quality IT product or applications to the business. Key responsibilities may be categorised into five areas:
Business Engagement
- Support pre-project consulting for a portfolio pipeline of initiatives
- Capture and communicate business direction, challenges and requirements
- Support business process change
- Recommends commercially and technically viable ideas to improve the business performance
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
- Responsible for application maintenance and striving for continuous improvements within the application lifecycle
Project Delivery
- Focus on small to medium 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
People Management
- Contribute to team resource planning
- Manage external 3rd parties as required
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
Requirements
Minimum:
- Degree qualification in Information Technology related discipline, Masters preferred
- 8+ years of related IT experience covering but not limited to:
- Software development
- System analysis
- Business analysis
- Solution definition
- System Testing
- Client facing experience with successful relationship management is a plus
- Proven verbal and written communication skill
- Professional, passionate, innovative, self-motivated and able to present solutions to diverse groups of stakeholders
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
- Proven troubleshooting skills; ability to identify patterns and generate ideas
- Airline or travel industry knowledge is highly beneficial
- Solid software development skill is highly beneficial
Personal & Application Information
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