Application Support Lead

2 weeks ago

Colchester, United Kingdom Penguin Books Limited Full time

Penguin Random House UK is the world's leading trade publisher, championing brilliant voices from across the globe, bringing their stories, ideas and writing to audiences everywhere. We have a great opportunity for an **Application Support Lead** to join our Integration Services Centre of Excellence on an initial 12-month FTC.

Working as part of a team of 8 and reporting into our Head of Integration Services, you will be a key member of a collaborative team and be comfortable working autonomously.

We are currently experimenting with a hybrid approach to working. For this role, we anticipate that you would need to come into our Frating office for certain in-person meetings and activities at least once or twice a month for anchor days. We are open to discussing the balance of office-based to remote working through the recruitment process. All interviews will be held virtually.

**To succeed in this role, you will**:

- Be experienced in using various middleware solutions, such as BizTalk, SI and Automic, to create messaging components, orchestrations, Business Rules Engine, Business Activity Monitoring and ESB Toolkit.
- Be experienced in following standard based technology such as SOAP, BPEL, Web Services, MTOM, WCF.
- Have a strong understanding of middleware structures, theories, principles, and practices.
- Be experienced with ESB and SOA design and principles.
- Be experienced in working simultaneously on multiple large and complex projects.
- Have solid technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring and supporting middleware systems.
- Be experienced in designing, maintaining and rehearsing middleware disaster and backup recovery plans.
- Have a good understanding and practical experience of software support life cycles.
- Have good Service Management experience, including incident, service or change management.
- Be a strong team player but also able to work independently.
- Have good communication, analytical and problem solving skills. You’ll be confident to use these skills to communicate with a number of key stakeholders within and around the Service Integration Centre of Excellence.

**What you can expect from us**:
**Salary**: £28,000 - £36,500 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

- 27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
- Medical cover
- Life assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Generous pension scheme
- Summer working hours (role dependent)
- Volunteering policy and charity matching
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mentoring programme
- Extended gender neutral parental leave
- Access to books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK
- Each site has trained mental health first aiders
- We plant a tree for every new employee to our business

**Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.**

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

**Company**: Penguin Books Limited

**Country**: United Kingdom

**State/Region**: London

**City**:Colchester

**Postal Code**: CP7 7BW

**Job ID**: 243307

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