Senior Solutions Engineer

• Work closely as part of our teams and provide technical leadership in designing evolvable systems that can scale to meet our customer needs.
• Help guide development using JLR API patterns and practices.
• Collaboratively design, implement, and run API technology solutions on our platform.
• Drive the strategic alignment of our products with our business models, focusing on delivering value to our business.
• Ensure quality attributes such as security, reliability, performance, etc. are always under consideration and the trade-offs understood.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• Docker
• GCP
• Grafana
• JSON
• Java
• Kafka
• Kanban
• Kubernetes
• PagerDuty
• Prometheus
• REST
• RabbitMQ
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Terraform
• DevOps

• Expert experience in Java & Spring Boot and/or similar languages (Go, Java Script).
• Expert experience with API First approach and API standards (REST, JSON, patterns & practices, RESTful API design).
• Expert experience with API technology (API gateways) and API security (authentication / authorisation / identity providers).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical subjects on multiple levels.
• Experience working in cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Terraform.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working in a genuine agile environment-Scrum, Kanban, or anything in between.
• Worked in a true DevSecOps culture with ownership and responsibility for your code in production.
• Inclusion of monitoring and observability with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Incident management with tools such as PagerDuty.
• A deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns and event-driven architecture.
• Experience working with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.).
• Genuine advocate for modern high-quality software engineering practices (good to have).
• Customer-focused, driven to deliver experiences users will love, and keen to collaborate with product stakeholders across the business (good to have).
• Resilient, energetic, and enthusiastic, able to deliver results in a complex environment while responding constructively to innovative ideas and inputs (good to have).
• Comfortable challenging existing thinking in a positive way, while building credibility and trust through experience and personal style (good to have).

We are eager to embark on a journey alongside our organization to become the best tech, modern luxury, and sustainable mobility company in the world. Located in Manchester, we offer a hybrid working model with a minimum of 2 days in the office. As part of the Enterprise API portfolio, we are scaling our API operations and seeking top talent to join us as a Senior Solution Engineer. We value innovation and collaboration, aiming to create seamless new customer experiences across all our iconic brands.