Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- BI, Application
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Herzogenaurach
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will lead technical deliveries within the SAP BTP team, develop cloud solutions, design and test software, and manage system integrations and the implementation of data architectures.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer - SAP Business Technology Platform. You will lead technical deliveries with your product teams, be the reference of our SAP BTP Cloud team, and participate in the respective workstreams together with the business counterparts to ensure a successful delivery & enablement. Therefore, he/she assumes responsibility for assigned projects and stream, driving the day-to-day SAP Cloud transformation, and supporting the road to S/4 HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform for standardization and simplification.
- Actively maintains recognized expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
- Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s).
- Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third-party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives.
- Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
- You will be the technical reference of a BTP Center of Excellence, driving initiatives, managing BTP subaccounts, and shaping the roadmap of our product team.
- Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization.
- Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.
- Architect, develop and implement projects based on proven development methodologies for SAP BTP, and other modern Cloud Development Frameworks on hyperscalers.
- Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
- Contributes to the selection of the software development approach for projects, choosing appropriately between predictive (plan-driven) approaches and adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
- Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.
- Define and ensure internal SAP BTP guidelines to bring consistency.
- Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology.
- Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
- Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.
- Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems.
- Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications.
- Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities.
- Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, to evaluate alternative options.
- Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.
- Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.
- Accepts responsibility for creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications (such as reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability, and portability).
- Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements.
- Produces test scripts, materials, and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services.
- Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources, and tools.
- Interprets, executes, and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards.
- Records and analyses actions and results and maintains a defect register.
- Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary.
- Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project.
- Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases.
- Provides specialist advice to support others.
- Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing.
- Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
- Defines complex/new integration builds.
- Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
- Designs, performs, and reports results of tests of the integration build.
- Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
- Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
- Configures software and equipment and tests platform-specific versions of one or more software products.
- Reports the outcome of testing and identifies potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs and standards.
- Contributes to the availability management process and its operation and performs defined availability management tasks.
- Analysis of service and component availability, reliability, maintainability, and serviceability.
- Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all their agreed performance targets and service levels.
- Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures.
- Conducts testing of recovery procedures.
- Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information.
- Regularly analyzes service records against agreed service levels to identify actions required to maintain or improve service levels, and initiates or reports these actions.
- Assesses and analyses release components. Provides input to scheduling.
- Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods - manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management.
- Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained.
- Monitors service component capacity and initiates actions to resolve any shortfalls according to agreed procedures.
- Applies techniques to control the demand upon a particular resource or service.
- Contributes to capacity modelling and planning.
- Supports the design of service component capacity.
- Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan.
- Handles problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
- Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
- Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
- Is involved in the recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decisions and pre-selection of candidates.
- Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload, and organizational efficiency.
- Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs.
- Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
Qualifications
- Proficient spoken and written command of English
- Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer
- Managed critical elements and cross-functional and regional projects
Experience
- At least 7 years of experience in IT
- 5 years of experience in relevant area
- 2 years of experience in team management
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What we offer
- Adidas is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace.
- We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders (including gender identity), ethnic and social backgrounds, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions and beliefs, and those with apparent or non-apparent disabilities.
- We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees.
- We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
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Adidas AG
adidas is a global company with German roots. With over 57,000 employees, we are a truly international organization, with people from around 100 different countries working at our headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany - the "World of Sports." We are proud to be a leading employer in the region and to have such a diverse and talented workforce.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Sports, Leisure, Logistics, Transportation
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Senior Platform Engineer - SAP BTP
- Location
- Herzogenaurach
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
