Azure Integration Software Engineer

at  CDW

Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.

JOB SUMMARY

CDW UK’s Business Transformation are responsible for driving and accelerating change and transformation across people, process, and systems. Its role is to:

• Provide portfolio management for all change initiatives ensuring they are assessed, prioritised, sequenced and governed to maximise benefit to CDW’s customers and co-workers, supported by robust Change Management
• Support change initiatives with additional resource and skills, from Project Managers to Business Analysts and technical experts
• Own some of the major 70+ business-wide initiatives including Robotic Process Automation, ServiceNow implementation, Process Re-engineering, and ERP replacement.

WHO WE ARE:

CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

CDW is undergoing a roll out of our Azure data platform, and we are looking for an Azure-based Software Engineer to join a growing team to build our data integration services, responsible for managing the communication of data between distributed operational systems across CDW’s technology estate. The data integration project transitions from point-to-point integrations to a centralised hub and spoke model, promoting decoupling of systems, improved data quality, and simplified estate architecture.

• Engineer highly scalable and resilient data integrations, leveraging Azure Cloud PaaS and reference architectures.
• Create data integrations using different data latency methodologies, e.g., real-time and periodic.
• Subscribe and publish to operational systems using their native application interface technologies, such as REST, GraphQL, SOAP, Service Bus, SQL, etc.
• Perform transformations to conform the data with expected schema required by downstream operational systems.
• Develop a toolset to monitor the health of data integrations, including near real-time alerting of failures, data volume metrics, resource consumption metrics, etc.
• DevOps approach to software; create high quality code using traditional software practices, such as building, linting, unit and integration testing, source control, CI/CD, peer reviews, etc.
• DevOps approach to support; monitor pipelines to ensure businesscritical data pipelines are processed meeting time constraint and data quality expectations (including implementing reactive changes where applicable).
• Integrate into the data team’s SCRUM ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives, including translation of user requirements into technical requirements including complexity estimation, implement in two-week sprint cycles, collaboration into process improvement, etc.
• Offer Level 3 and beyond support for platform.
• Based on requirements, perform ad-hoc analysis of data across multiple data sources to inform solution design.
• Document datasets in data catalogue, including ownership, stewardship, dictionaries, glossaries, lineage, sensitivity, etc.
• Document solution design in wiki.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience Management Responsibilities

• Strong Azure Function Apps experience for data integrations, using C# and .Net Core; including Durable Functions.
• Strong Azure SQL and data skills.
• Strong understanding of software development practices, such as SOLID principals, functional and object oriented, structuring code, testing, IOC, dependency injection, etc.
• Strong unit testing, including TDD.
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps Repositories, Pipelines and Artifacts (git, multistage YAML, NuGet).
• Strong experience with Azure data integration stack, including Azure Function Apps, Azure Logic Apps, Azure API Management, Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage etc.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, considering scalability, resiliency, high availability, disaster recovery, networking, etc.
• Strong understanding of application interface technologies including REST, GraphQL, SOAP, Service Bus, SQL, etc.
• IaC, e.g., Terraform, ARM, Bicep, etc. o Includes solid Azure Resource Manager skills including Azure Portal, Az CLI and Az PowerShell.
• Demonstrate understanding of Event driven Architectures.
• Knowledge of Canonicalised modelling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Presentation skills, e.g., to Architecture Review Board.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as an Azure Software Engineer.
• A demonstrable track record of getting stuff done whilst managing competing pressures and deadlines and retaining an eye for detail and quality.
• A passion for technology and its ability to have a positive impact on business.

CDW UK’s Business Transformation are responsible for driving and accelerating change and transformation across people, process, and systems. Its role is to:

• Provide portfolio management for all change initiatives ensuring they are assessed, prioritised, sequenced and governed to maximise benefit to CDW’s customers and co-workers, supported by robust Change Management
• Support change initiatives with additional resource and skills, from Project Managers to Business Analysts and technical experts
• Own some of the major 70+ business-wide initiatives including Robotic Process Automation, ServiceNow implementation, Process Re-engineering, and ERP replacement