Reporting to: Senior Solution Lead

Join Cathay as a Solution Lead in our Cargo Solution Centre. You will be the one to manage advanced IT systems that streamline air cargo operations for our people and enhance experience for our customers across our global network.

Thrive in a dynamic and agile environment that embraces AI and cutting-edge technologies. Our culture fosters teamwork and progressive thinking, while our internal mobility program offers diverse career opportunities.

Leverage your expertise to lead technical delivery in the Cargo Solution Centre, ensuring we deliver on our brand promise and drive organizational success together with our wide-reaching Cargo teams around the world.

• Translate business direction into technical solutions, ensuring commercial and technical feasibility
• Collaborate with solution analysts and solution architects to design and implement scalable IT products and applications
• Drive application development lifecycle, including planning, coding, integration, and continuous improvement
• Act as technical escalation point for Solution Analysts, providing guidance and enforcing best practices
• Stay current with emerging technologies, applying industry best practices to enhance solution design and delivery
• Manage small to medium-scale technical projects, covering planning, execution, and testing (security, performance, integration)
• Oversee development teams and external vendors, contributing to resource planning and technical governance
• Participate in Agile delivery, manage Solution Analysts, and serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for technical decisions
• Provide mentorship and coaching to Solution Analysts to strengthen technical capabilities and team performance

• Ability to translate raw product requirements into software architectures and solution designs, including creating technical diagrams for team discussion
• Strong recent hands-on programming experience in Java, Node.js, Python, with solid systems analysis and software development background is a must
• Front-end proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, React, TypeScript, and responsive design; familiarity with modern frameworks is an advantage
• Back-end development expertise in Python, Java Spring Boot, Node.js, and microservices architecture
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker Compose, Podman Compose, Kubernetes, or ROSA
• Web development knowledge, preferably Adobe Experience Manager, aligned with W3C standards and SEO best practices
• Cloud and managed services experience, especially AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, ElastiCache), and managed open-source services (MongoDB Atlas, RDS MySQL, Redis Enterprise Cloud)
• Strong experience in secure, high-volume transactional system design, including integration with message-based middleware, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and solid database/ETL knowledge
• Advanced software engineering practices including Agile, DevOps, Design Thinking, SDLC, coding standards, code review, testing, and operations; experience in both agile and waterfall
• Operational responsibilities including full SDLC participation, L2/L3 production support, Scrum SME involvement, and a passion for continuously learning new technologies and business domains
• Strong knowledge in security and compliance practices and technologies

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