Senior Software Engineer

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WHO ARE WE?

Iconic British brand ghd is a global leader in high end professional hair styling tools and the UK's number one recommended styling brand. Loved by stylists and consumers, loved by press, and loved by the people that work for the brand!

Merging science and innovation, with luxury beauty and style; ghd combines cutting edge technologies and beautiful designs to create the most technically advanced hair tools in the world. ghd tools deliver "safer for hair" heat styling that have become an essential part of the daily lives of professional hair stylists and consumers globally.

Renowned for game changing innovation and superior performance, at ghd we are on a mission to transform lives with the power of a good hair day!

LOCATION

This role will be based in our Leeds office, and we offer a hybrid working pattern of 3 days in the office and 2 days WFH.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We're looking for an energetic Senior Software Engineer with the ability to drive the successful delivery and support of enterprise-grade integration solutions and software support.

This technical expertise role requires close interaction with business leaders to understand requirements/use cases, schedule, and propose solutions.

Reporting to the Head of Systems and Integration, you will work with a range of technologies, contributing to the continued growth and success of ghd.

JOB ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with Global Process Leaders to capture software/integration requirements and provide necessary architectural guidance where needed.
• Manage a team of 5 Software Engineers to develop high quality applications and solutions, aligned with ghd's growth ambitions.
• Work with your peer group to ensure the development team's pipeline of development is managed appropriately, delivering high quality solutions on time.
• Develop, test and deliver software/integrations to provide highly scalable and reusable solutions.
• Follow the full development lifecycle through to production support.
• Proactively triage and resolve project or BAU-related issues.
• Create knowledge-based articles and documentation to help other development team members.
• Undertake continuous service improvement to identify process and technical changes that can enhance system and platform stability or efficiency.
• After an appropriate onboarding period, take part in the out of hours support rota.

REQUIREMENTS

Essential:

• 7+ years of experience using integration platforms like Snaplogic, Mulesoft or other IPaaS solutions. SAP BTP expertise would be very beneficial.
• Knowledge of SOAP/XML/JMS/JSON, expert understanding of REST principles, and REST and SOAP APIs.
• Experience in building APIs using Swagger or Open API Specification.
• Deep understanding of HTTP protocols.
• Functional knowledge of program scripting such as SQL.
• Excellent analytical and verbal communication skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of API Management architecture and API Lifecycle management.

Desirable:

• Strong understanding of Microsoft C# / .NET Framework / .NET Core.
• Applied knowledge of agile, iterative, and waterfall development processes.
• Experience with asynchronous Architecture.
• Exposure to Azure cloud platform.

VALUES

We at ghd are proudly committed to our Company Values and aim to attract and retain employees who live our Values.

• Collaborative - We work together to create the extraordinary.
• Creative - We foster creativity & excellence to create value for our brands and business.
• Courageous - We are agile, entrepreneurial & we own our future.
• Connected - We stay connected and ensure we are always consumer first.