IT Developer, Integration

Ornua – The Home of Irish Dairy and KERRYGOLD, is an agri-food commercial co-operative. Headquartered in Dublin, Ornua is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, exporting to over 110 countries worldwide. It employs over 2,000 staff and operates from 20 business units worldwide and has sales and marketing teams working in-market across all four corners of the globe.

At Ornua, we Grow Together by investing in the development of our people and providing great leadership for all. We Achieve Together through valuing collaboration, innovation, and diversity and by empowering our people to make decisions. We Belong Together by staying true to our co-operative roots, valuing each other's individual differences, and remaining humble in our interactions with each other and our customers.

We want to find people that understand and work with heart, with thought with vision, with drive – Ornua’s core values.

role summary

The IT Integration Developer will be involved in supporting and developing Integrations and Interfaces between Ornua and its wide and disparate partner network (especially customers, members, suppliers, banks, warehouses, freight/haulage providers and regulatory bodies), between internal Ornua business units and between our best of breed applications. They will support users and partners onboarding new partners

The IT Integration Developer will report to the Integration Lead within the Digital & Applications Team and in addition to Integration Development they will support other functions within the Digital and Applications Team, especially ERP and Enterprise Applications. They will also support the maintenance and deployment of the Ornua Digital and Technology Strategy.

This is an ideal role for a technical and data orientated individual who enjoys business engagement and support and being part of a team which designs and develops innovative solutions to solve business challenges.

why join us?

The Global IT team has expanded rapidly over the last number of years and it plays a major role in enabling Ornua’s new business operating model. Within our team, we have a range of skills and staff from graduates to 20+ years experience. This team interacts with all aspects of the business and subsidiaries at home and abroad.

The IT Integration Developer within Integration will have opportunities to learn new best of breed cloud-based and on-premise manufacturing, commercial and quality applications and tools and also to help shape our future technical landscape.

key areas of responsibility

• Supporting the development delivery of Integration projects through their entire project lifecycle. This includes gathering of business requirements, solution and technical design, testing and implementation.
• Maintenance of existing Integration landscape – troubleshooting errors, liaising with business users, improving user visibility, documenting solutions
• Onboarding partners - implementing partner specifications and testing tools – engagement with partners during and after this process and developing relationships with key partners and colleagues across our network
• Work with technology partners to ensure applications are compliant, supported and up to date, fit for purpose and optimised

key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or a similar field.
• Minimum 1 years IT experience, ideally with development experience in integration or middleware tools (e.g. especially IBM/Sterling B2Bi or Azure Logic Apps) or other development roles

• High level of integrity, passion, self-motivation and analytical skills. Flexible attitude and willingness to travel.
• Strong team player and organisational abilities.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder relationship management skills.
• Languages: Fluency in English

optional requirements

• Knowledge of XML and related technologies (XSLT, XPath, XSD, DDF etc)
• Experience of Programming Languages especially Java and JavaScript
• Experience of development environments and frameworks like Eclipse and ExtJs
• Knowledge of Source Code Management (Git) & DevOps
• Knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs
• Experience with other applications in our Global portfolio would be an advantage:
  • ERP application (e.g. Infor M3 or similar)
  • BI application (e.g. Power BI)
  • Technical competence in enterprise report development, data analytics tools, BI, ETL, SQL or equivalent relationship database query language

•  OWNERSHIP: Motivated and dynamic – ability to work to deadlines and deliver quality work.

• COMMUNICATIVE: Good communication skills, considering impact on the audience and desired outcomes. Ability to work with users and partners to assess requirements and support BAU processes
• WORKING TOGETHER: Good team player who ensures own team effectiveness, facilitates and leads cross-functional working with Global IT team, business users and business management.

CLOSING DATE: 12th September 2025