BizTalk Integrations Developer

Integrations Developer (Biztalk and AIS)

Business Area: Group IT

Location: Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK – Hybrid (open to flexibility)

Contract: Permanent

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm

Why join us.
We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. As a valued Developer, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do.

We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.

About this role.

Due to internal promotion, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced BizTalk / AIS developer to join our development team responsible for the design, development and support of critical integration software solutions and the associated key operational systems and processes.

In this busy and exciting role, you’ll work with product specialists, developer colleagues (on and offshore) and 3rd party organisations to produce high quality applications that transform our organisation and help us continue to meet the needs of our internal and external customers.

We’re midway through a program of work to transform our system landscape, implementing best in class systems and modernising key platforms - integration being one of these. 

We currently use Biztalk (2013 R2 and 2020) as our sole integration platform, however we’re evolving towards a blended solution with AIS later this year. 

Integration is absolutely key to our business and we’re looking for a driven, hard-working and skilled developer to join our team. 

Key role responsibilities.

• Development - Responsible for the creation of solutions based on a functional and technical specification
• Analysis & Documentation – Undertake estimation and analysis work to draw up quotes or technical specification documents
• Software Development Skills - Solutions will require you to maintain a broad range of software development knowledge / skills, including quality management and testing
• Software Standards Adherence – Responsible for developing solutions against the defined standard
• Application Lifecycle Management – Responsible for all developed solutions being administered within a source / version control solution
• Working Practice - Promote and adhere to the current working practices that are being used whilst challenging and reviewing the standards to achieve continual improvement
• Support - Undertake support responsibilities ensuring solutions are provided in an efficient and effective manner
• Quality & Release – Responsible for the delivery of solutions, with associated quality and release management due diligence

About you.

Ideally, you’ll have previous experience within a similar role and the following knowledge/skills

• Biztalk Server 2013R2 and above
• Installation and configuration
• Performance Optimisation
• Design and develop Orchestrations, Maps (UI, XSLT), Schemas, BRE , Custom Pipeline
• Configure Adaptors (WCF, FTP, SMTP etc)
• BAM – Design activities and maintain BAM data
• Debugging and Troubleshooting Biztalk Applications
• Programming Language
• C#, VB
• .NET Framework
• Database Management
• SQL Server 2014 and above (T-SQL, Stored Procedures, SQL Agent jobs)
• Design and optimisation
• Webservices
• SOAP and RESTful services
• WCF
• Messaging and Middleware
• EDI (EDIFACT & TRADACOM)
• MSMQ
• DevOps
• CI/CD using Azure DevOps or similar tools
• Source control (Git or TFS)
• Other Tools
• Biztalk Deployment Framework
• Biztalk 360
• Postman or SOAP UI
• Cloud Integration
• Azure Integration Services

What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Short Term Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover)
• Cash allowance (car)
• Free Carparking

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor.

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

Find out more and apply.

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