Integrations Developer / Specialist | London | Up to £49k | Higher Education sector
We are supporting a university on exclusive basis who are in the market for a Senior Integration Specialist to work on a well-defined implementation of a new Student Management System and the BAU support of the university's integrations. The successful candidates will be deputising and be a safe pair of hands to 5 other specialists ensuring strategies and designs for system integrations are robust.
Summary of the Role:
Role: Senior Integration Specialist
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid | 1 day a week - London
Salary: £37,999 - £49214 - depending on experience and skills
Benefits: USS pension scheme (19%-21%), 30 days + Uni Closure days + bank holidays, and more.
What we need to see as essential:
- Development experience relating to ETL, SSIS & SSRS
- Strong knowledge of Oracle and SQL databases & using SQL to query MySQL/MSSQL Databases
- Knowledge of C# OR Python
- Understanding of the importance with data quality
- Ability to translate non-technical requirements to technical solutions
Key Projects You will be involved in:
The overarching strategy is to improve student and staff experience and the project will have the following phases:
- Moving from legacy system to more widely used student record system
- Migrating legacy integration programmes on SSIS, rebuilding them and hosting them on the Azure platform
- Integration with an extensive portfolio of existing University's student applications - other ERP systems (HR & Finance)
- Business Change and Transformation associated with new processes and student journeys
Reporting to the head of Integrations, the successful candidate will work on an exciting implementation project to replace the existing student management system to a new one and support the existing integration. The main remit of the role is collecting, analysing, and translating data integration and reporting requirements into robust solutions meeting stakeholder requirements. But also to be a safe pair of hands with the junior integration specialists. Knowledge of data structures and warehousing, ETL solution development, SOA, SQL, web services, reporting technologies; Business Intelligence; and Data Management (master data management).
This is a good opportunity for someone that is hungry and looking to make an impact within a small organisation. There are the opportunities to impact changes that are upcoming but most importantly be hands on operationally. The successful candidate is joining an organisation that has huge appetite for continuous improvement.
Joining the programme at early stage the post holder will have plenty of opportunities to influence, improve and change processes/solutions in order to leave their mark. Across all these projects, you will be given the autonomy in ensuring effective communication with students and staff, address issues proactively, and produce accurate data and reports to support decision-making.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience working in higher education sector
- Knowledge of Stutalk and SITS Student record systems
- Working with Azure Data factory - data integration services on Azure platform
- Experience working with data visualisation tools - PowerBI, Tableau and QlikView
- Agile project management knowledge and experience
- Experience with window Linux
Please reach out to y.okubet@gravitasgroup.com or on 07802244258 regarding any queries. Interviews will be taking place on the18th and 19th of December.