Integration Expert, Wood Supply

This recruitment is carried out anonymously.

Metsä Group ICT is a group level service function having about 250 employees. Group ICT is responsible for delivering and developing competitive ICT services to all business areas and group functions. As a strongly investing organization, we are now strengthening our Group ICT Integrations team and looking for a proficient, experienced and service-oriented professional.

Metsä Group is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic

PRODUCT OWNER / INTEGRATION EXPERT, Wood Supply

What will you get to do?

We are looking for a development-oriented professional with a strong experience in IT systems and application integration, to join Metsä Group ICT in Espoo. The integration expert will be part of a team of 10+ IT professionals, who cooperate closely and contribute by sharing ideas and knowhow.

As an Integration Expert you will be responsible for ensuring a smooth communication/transition of requirements between our business representatives and vendors. More specifically you will be able to leverage your expertise in the following topics:

• Coordinating Metsä Group Wood Supply integration work and integration related Wood Supply solutions.
  • Lead and coordinate Wood Supply area integration architecture design, integration development work and API management in integrations product owner role.
  • Collaborate with business, integration suppliers and ICT process teams to ensure fit for purpose integrations and interfaces supporting Wood Supply processes and solutions.
     
• Designing and managing application integrations of Wood Supply process area on selected cases.
  • Gathering overall and detailed requirements for new business demands for integrations.
  • Designing integration logic and mappings, participating to integration testing and verifying implementation in production (together with external partners).
     
• Assisting integration support organizations if needed.
• Operative management of external partners’ work by verifying workload estimates, controlling progress, quality of work and costs of implementation to ensure required business service level.
• Creating/maintaining the solution documentation together with business, external partners and other ICT teams as well as approval of the solution documentation.
   

What are we expecting of you?

We are looking for a service oriented person with a positive attitude and willingness to learn. You proactively develop your way of working and take initiative to put development plans into action.

In addition a successful candidate has

• Experience in working in with integration solutions. Preferred technologies are Microsoft Azure Integration Services or SAP integration tools, but experience can be from some other technologies as well.
  • Understanding on integration standards, design patterns, security principles, communication protocols and formats, at least on high level. Experience on API management is considered additional asset.
     
• Ability to transfer or manage Wood Supply business requirements into integration design – and especially to coordinate integration implementation to fully functional solution.
• Independent way of working and solution oriented mindset.
• Good understanding and ability to utilize ICT standards and tools (for example ITSM, ITIL, Agile/Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow).
• Former experience of working in forest industry and specifically in wood supply area (for example forest harvesting, transportation, planning, purchasing solutions) is considered an asset.
• Fluent Finnish and English (written and spoken) skills.
   

Good people-skills and ability to influence people in the matrix organization are good qualities to have in this position. This work requires flexibility and ability to prioritize your own work. You can be in the beginning of your career with few years of valid experience, our professional team will support you to succeed in this role.

Career in the new era at Metsä Group

The best sparring for business – deepen your expertise as a specialist. At Metsä Group, you’ll work with professionals from many fields. Our atmosphere is open, and it’s easy for newcomers to fit in. We want to renew the business by striving for positive impacts on the environment and society. This means significant development opportunities and agile projects, competence development, and understanding the business. Our big company offers a wide range of career opportunities and many interesting challenges. 

Metsä Group has a responsible corporate culture that creates a safe working environment for all of us. We value good leadership and support for personal career development. We encourage you to display your competence and will provide you with opportunities to use it.

We offer our employees a wide range of fringe benefits, including comprehensive occupational health care, and extensive training and development opportunities. To support wellbeing at work, we encourage our employees to take advantage of culture, sports and bicycle benefits.

Metsä Group has a hybrid working model. In this position, part of the work can be done remotely. #LI-HYBRID

Above all, this position offers you diverse working days, challenging projects and a job that affects the present and future of Metsä. Our team builds new technology for our plants and mills, and secures that the existing ones serve our business in the best possible way.

More information about us and the role of ICT in Metsä you’ll find from the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_q6DgVjHFo

Enter a new era in your career,​ welcome to Metsä Group!​

Anonymous recruitment - this is how it works

This is an anonymous recruitment process. The gender and date of birth of the applicant are not asked for on the application form. Personal details such as name, mother tongue, time of studies, name of educational institution and contact details are hidden until the interview stage. Attachments (such as CVs) are also hidden.

This recruitment is carried out by Metsä Group’s recruitment partner. Our partner sees the applicants’ details in the system, but the applicants remain anonymous to Metsä Group during application processing. Our recruitment partner is committed to presenting the most suitable applicants for the open position.

Our system will guide you through the application process. The questions on the application form will help you present your skills and experience anonymously. Answer all questions carefully. If you’re invited for interview, your CV will be displayed to the recruiters to support the interview.

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Would you like to know more? Contact us!

Because the application process is anonymous, we don’t record any information about people who contact us. So don’t hesitate to call us if you have any questions about the position or the recruitment process itself. For more information about the position, please contact Kari Mustonen. You can reach Kari by phone on +358 50 5571833 best on Wed 25.9.2024 at 15-16 or Tue 1.10.2024 at 15-16.

What happens next?

Click on the link below to apply. Note that attachments won’t be visible in anonymous recruitment until the interview stage, so it’s important to fill in the application form carefully. Please send your application as soon as possible, as we’ll already start processing applications during the application period. Please include your CV and salary request. You’ll receive a confirmation message the next morning after your application has been received.

The application will be open until 6.10.2024. We wish you the best of luck!