The Company
Christie’s, the world’s largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting & enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art Departments, or in one of our more Operational teams, we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 260 year old company, steeped in history, bringing fresh ideas whilst not forgetting our shared values: Integrity, Excellence, Innovation, Responsibility & Relationships. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is inspiring to work with industry leaders across our business.
Why This Role Matters
Christie’s is looking for an experienced Enterprise Integration Technical Lead to join our technology organization and play a key role in delivering scalable, reliable, and secure integrations across the enterprise. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader with strong Azure integration experience who enjoys working in complex environments and partnering closely with product and business stakeholders.
You will work collaboratively within a cross functional team of engineers, product owners, architects, and delivery leads to design and deliver modern integration solutions that support Christie’s ongoing digital transformation. With your technical expertise, you will help set technical direction, manage delivery priorities, and ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for scalability, resilience, and security.
You will be part of a highly experienced team using modern cloud technologies to help Christie’s continue to evolve as a digital leader in the art world.
How You'll Make an Impact
Be responsible for the technical quality and delivery standards of the enterprise integration team.
Partner closely with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders on requirements gathering, solution design, and technical validation.
Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of integration solutions on Microsoft Azure.
Drive technical direction and best practices for API-led, event-driven, and message-based integration patterns.
Ensure integration solutions meet non-functional requirements including scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
Be hands-on in delivery, contributing code, reviewing designs, and supporting the team as a senior technical authority.
Identify and drive continuous improvements across development, testing, deployment, and operational processes.
Work alongside delivery and agile leads to ensure high-quality outcomes are delivered on time and within agreed constraints.
Collaborate with Tier 1 and 2 application support teams to provide production support.
What you’ll bring to the team
Technical
Strong experience designing and building enterprise integration solutions in a cloud environment.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure integration services, including:
o Azure Functions
o Azure Service Bus (queues and topics)
o RESTful API design and integration
o API Management
o Azure Logic Apps
Experience with event-driven, message-based, microservices, and serverless architectures.
Solid understanding of integration patterns (synchronous, asynchronous, pub/sub, orchestration).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code.
Strong background in building secure, resilient, and observable systems in production.
Development experience using modern languages and frameworks (e.g. .NET, C#, or equivalent).
Experience with Power Platform is a plus.
Working practices
Working with a cross discipline team to ensure delivery of high quality products on time and on budget
Leading a technical team, setting direction, getting deep into the code when needed and being looked upon as a senior authority in software development tasks, projects, etc.
Lead level commercial experience managing a tech team through large-scale production builds
Extensive experience working in cross vendor, remote working environments
Pragmatic approach to problem solving with a clear view on value delivery (user and business)
Helping design colleagues understand technical limitations from existing architecture and opportunities for improvement from new technologies
Strong communication skills and client stakeholder management
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience working with and running agile teams
Character
You have a strong appetite to explore new technologies and share knowledge.
You welcome feedback and look to improve project development and understanding.
You are able to communicate well with non-technical team members or stakeholders.
You are able to work to deadlines and in a fast-paced environment.
You are comfortable setting expectations for the team on following best practices and coding standards.
You are a team player.
What’s great about working for us
25 days annual leave + 1 day Birthday leave
Christie’s Christmas office closure (guaranteed between 25th Dec – 1st Jan) – in addition to annual leave: almost two weeks to fully switch off and spend time with friends and family
Additional 1 week’s annual leave within the year of a 5-year anniversary i.e. 5th, 10th, 15th and so on
Volunteering day: Take an additional day of annual leave to volunteer for a charitable organisation that’s important to you
Donation matching of up to £500 per annum to help you support the organisations you care about
Flexible Fitness Fund - £400 per year expense allowance for health and wellness related activity (taxable)
Access to world-renowned art: with regular exhibitions in our galleries to wander around and exclusive guided tours hosted by specialist colleagues
Discretionary Bonus (dependent on the business and employee performance payable in March each year)
Generous retirement plan: We will double match your pension contribution up to 5% of your basic salary (Max 10% contribution from Christie’s)
Private Health Insurance – no employee contribution needed, subsidised for other family members
Dental Insurance – (may be extended at personal cost)
Generous Income Protection Insurance in the event of accident, sickness or injury after 12 months
Competitive Life Insurance policy from first day
Employee Assistance Programme – access to personal advice and support services including counselling
Eyecare vouchers (once a year)
Cycle to Work scheme
Christie’s Extras – discounts on over 800 retailers, holiday packages, dinners and weekly shops
Seniorcare by Lottie, a comprehensive eldercare solution
Robust family first policy:
Ø 16 weeks full pay on Maternity Leave
Ø Eligible to return to work for 80% of your agreed normal weekly working pattern while being paid as though you were working 100%, post a minimum of 16 weeks of leave
Ø Dependent back-up care: 10 sessions/ days of childcare or eldercare per year
Ø Christies Family Network: Our community of parents who meet regularly over breakfasts, lunch, afternoon tea…
*Christie’s reserves the right to change company benefits at any time
Closing Date: Sunday 5th April
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