Senior Manager Integration Design

Job Description

We've got a great new opportunity for a Senior Manager Integration Design to join the Enterprise Integration & Automation team!

You'll oversee the Enterprise Integration Design team, ensuring APIs meet all our Integration design standards and principles.

The Design Manager leads all aspects of integration design as it moves through the implementation process, coordinating changes by keeping an eye on delivery plans and sharing updates. Engagements into the team vary, you may be working with your team to come up with practical delivery plans or handling resource requests for integration consulting or federating the work of partners delivering design.

You'll play a key role in leading API design, managing integration strategies, and setting design standards and policies to ensure our APIs are secure, scalable, and efficient. This role is all about delivery—helping us grow and enhance our API capabilities on a large scale. You'll need to be a problem-solver, coming up with innovative solutions for a core function at VMO2.

You'll lead a small but key team and work with suppliers to help us scale. You’ll take charge of the roadmap for our strategic API Catalogue, making sure our APIs are the key building blocks for VMO2's capability and maximising API re-use. You'll also be responsible for maintaining clear and detailed API documentation and offering training and support as needed.

Who we are

The UK’s fastest broadband network. The nation’s best-loved mobile brand. And, one of the UK's biggest companies too.

Diverse, high performing teams - jam packed with serious talent. Together, we offer the UK more choice and better value, through our boundary-pushing, customer-championing values and ambitions.

Together, we are Virgin Media O2, and we can't wait to see what you can do.

Accessible, inclusive and equitable for all

Virgin Media O2 is an equal opportunities employer and we're working hard to remove bias and barriers for our people and candidates. So, we build equity and inclusion into everything we do, from the policies we craft to the relationships we shape. We support and encourage you to be your authentic self throughout your application journey with us.

The must haves

In order to be considered, you must have the following experience;

• Experience in solution architecture or Integration/API Design
• People and resource management, coaching and leading a team
• Previous evidence of making decisions on major technical and delivery issues
• Demonstrable ability to collaborate closely with stakeholders at all levels, whether they're technical or non-technical

The other stuff we are looking for

We'd also love you to bring;

• Understanding of development methodology and software development
• Results driven with a thorough understanding of the business objectives
• Previous demonstrable experience in a similar senior design manager role in a complex technical environment
• A knowledge of HTTP and REST
• Design principles, Integration patterns and Microservices

What's in it for you

Our goal is to celebrate our people, their lives and everything in-between. We aim to create a culture that empowers everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work each and every day. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world.

Working at Virgin Media O2, you get a bumper reward package bursting with benefits, and loads of extras you can add if you’d like to. These are designed to support both you and your loved ones, making sure that you’re covered no matter what life throws your way.

Next steps

Our goal is to celebrate our people, their lives and everything in-between. We aim to create a culture that empowers everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work each and every day. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world.

Working at Virgin Media O2, you get a bumper reward package bursting with benefits, and loads of extras you can add if you’d like to. These are designed to support both you and your loved ones, making sure that you’re covered no matter what life throws your way.

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