Kept coming back for more
I've started out studying something called "Information management" with a focus on web based technologies. As part of my studies I started an internship with TUI and had the opportunity to explore every IT team my floor (and the one above mine ;) ) had to offer. It sparked my love for more hands-on IT instead of "just" doing the technical planning. Afterwards I worked a student job there for a while and decided to explore other companies to broaden my horizon. I've quickly discovered what I left behind and decided to make a return. I've since worked with different teams within TUI as the possibilities are endless. I'd now much rather bounce to a new team to explore my opportunities and keep learning new skills than bounce to another company.
I manage and develop new features for our agency management service.
I'm currently taking care of TUI's agency management service and work in an agile team.
As a solution architect I have a wide variety of tasks ranging from simple every day support questions to complex designing and developing of solutions for our technical requirements and everything in between. As the person on the team who has been around for the second longest time it's also my job to teach newer colleagues about our system and it's functionalities as well as explain legacy features to newer dev colleagues. It's important to me that everyone can ask their questions regularly and feels confident doing so. Knowledge needs to always be shared between as many people as possible to enable the team to deliver the best product possible.
Paving the way to a unified TUI IT landscape with great colleagues
For me enjoyable work starts with a great team. From my experience TUI has a really great social infrastructure with lots of colleagues who can make any work interesting. I'm currently involved in a larger project and get to know colleagues from many different countries around the world. I think this level of diversity helps a lot with finding solutions for the challenges we face in trying to replace legacy systems with unified cross-market applications.
tl;dr: Our goal is it to provide great state-of-the-art solutions to unify TUI's IT landscape while having fun on the way ;)
Be courageous!
Take on challenges head-on. Everyone has failed at some point and everyone will fail again. Just take time to reflect on the failures. It's the only way we can really grow as humans and evolve into the best possible version of ourselves.
Having an environment that allows you to fail and learn gracefully is vital to being able to deliver the best possible work we can. This is something I really enjoy in my day-to-day work: I've never felt afraid to ask all my questions, no matter how stupid I felt they were and I was always met with respect and dignity.
