Cathay Pacific Airways is an international airline registered and based in Hong Kong, flying to over 190 destinations around the world.

We are proud of our home Hong Kong, where the company was founded in 1946. Our corporate headquarters are located at Hong Kong International Airport. We employ over 21,000 people worldwide.

We are also a founding member of the oneworld global alliance whose combined network serves over 750 destinations worldwide.

Role Introduction

Reports to: Senior Solution Lead

Department: IMT - Information Technology

This role, Solution Lead, Big Data Platform and Data Engineering, is the subject matter expert that understands how and how well the business is supported by the IT product or applications in their area. The main focuses are to provide subject matter technical leadership in designing, implementing, maintaining and administrating the Big Data Platform, data pipelines and machine learning solutions.

You are responsible to define solutions to bridge gaps and make sure the project scope is maintained, and solutions implemented in line with design.

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
Analyze commercially and technically viable ideas to improve the business performance
Develop and maintain a cross departmental view of IT and business
Interact and work closely with solution provider or internal senior management
Promote and maintain the agreed product roadmap with the business
Challenge the business on their assumptions and justifications in a constructive manner in order to keep the resources on Cathay Pacific’s best interests.

Technology Design and Implementation

Design, build and support large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks on Amazon Cloud Platform and hybrid cloud environments
Collaborate with application development teams, architects, Data Scientists and Machine Learning experts and stakeholders
Design, develop, implement, and support IT products and applications to meet the customer and IT needs
Support design walkthroughs with IT and business people
Recommend best practices in continuous integration and delivery
Generate ideas to improve data quality
Provide an escalation point for solution analysts in order to deliver business solutions that include technology implementations and/or adaptations
Generate ideas and develop new approaches to improve overall system design and/or streamline delivery of product/system with adherence to security policy and data governance framework

Project Delivery

Focus on multiple medium to large 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
Identify areas of risk and prepare strategies for mitigation for the projects

People Management

Contribute to team resource planning
Manage external 3rd parties as required
Keep abreast of latest trends in technology, industry and corresponding business domain

The Solution Lead may also:

Participate in Product Vertical Teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver product objectives through adopting Agile development practices
Perform the role of surrogate Product Owner / BU SME (generally Senior)
Mentor Solution Analysts on any aspect of their role
Act as an IT practice champion or be an Agile coach if required

Requirements

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
At least 3 years of experience in leading the solution implementation of high volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as EMR, BigQuery, Hadoop
Experience in application development methodologies, Big Data Architecture, ELT design, and real time streaming
Experience in cloud based design and development, data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques on cloud platform(s), preferably Amazon core services and writing distributed, high-volume services
Knowledge in Spark, python, R, Hadoop ecosystems, Node.js, open source development framework etc.
Knowledge in Machine Learning and data wrangling
Experience in agile development processes and data-driven development
Proven experience in applying Software Engineering best practices and techniques such as structured analysis, use cases and formal estimation
Proven extensive client facing experience with successful relationship management
Outstanding verbal and written communication skill
Experience managing a software development team
Professional, passionate, innovative, self-motivated and able to present solutions to diverse groups of stakeholders
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
Proven troubleshooting skills; ability to identify patterns and generate ideas
Experienced in driving technical innovation
Experience with utilization of outsourced and/or globally distributed resources
Airline or travel industry knowledge is highly beneficial
Solid software development skill is highly beneficial
Experience in working with Agile projects
Consulting background is highly beneficial

Application Deadline: 17-May-2024

on their assumptions and justifications in a constructive manner in order to keep the resources on Cathay Pacific’s best interests.

Technology Design and Implementation

Design, build and support large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks on Amazon Cloud Platform and hybrid cloud environments
Collaborate with application development teams, architects, Data Scientists and Machine Learning experts and stakeholders
Design, develop, implement, and support IT products and applications to meet the customer and IT needs
Support design walkthroughs with IT and business people
Recommend best practices in continuous integration and delivery
Generate ideas to improve data quality
Provide an escalation point for solution analysts in order to deliver business solutions that include technology implementations and/or adaptations
Generate ideas and develop new approaches to improve overall system design and/or streamline delivery of product/system with adherence to security policy and data governance framework

Project Delivery

Focus on multiple medium to large 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
Identify areas of risk and prepare strategies for mitigation for the projects

People Management

Contribute to team resource planning
Manage external 3rd parties as required
Keep abreast of latest trends in technology, industry and corresponding business domain

The Solution Lead may also:

Participate in Product Vertical Teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver product objectives through adopting Agile development practices
Perform the role of surrogate Product Owner / BU SME (generally Senior)
Mentor Solution Analysts on any aspect of their role
Act as an IT practice champion or be an Agile coach if required

Requirements

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
At least 3 years of experience in leading the solution implementation of high volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as EMR, BigQuery, Hadoop
Experience in application development methodologies, Big Data Architecture, ELT design, and real time streaming
Experience in cloud based design and development, data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques on cloud platform(s), preferably Amazon core services and writing distributed, high-volume services
Knowledge in Spark, python, R, Hadoop ecosystems, Node.js, open source development framework etc.
Knowledge in Machine Learning and data wrangling
Experience in agile development processes and data-driven development
Proven experience in applying Software Engineering best practices and techniques such as structured analysis, use cases and formal estimation
Proven extensive client facing experience with successful relationship management
Outstanding verbal and written communication skill
Experience managing a software development team
Professional, passionate, innovative, self-motivated and able to present solutions to diverse groups of stakeholders
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
Proven troubleshooting skills; ability to identify patterns and generate ideas
Experienced in driving technical innovation
Experience with utilization of outsourced and/or globally distributed resources
Airline or travel industry knowledge is highly beneficial
Solid software development skill is highly beneficial
Experience in working with Agile projects
Consulting background is highly beneficial

Application Deadline: 17-May-2024

Personal & Application Information

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Solution Lead - Big Data and Data Engineering