Assistant Manager

If you are passionate about playing a key role in the success of a German Multinational Automotive Corporation, we want to hear from you

Our client is a well-established brand in the Automotive industry and they are looking for a passionate and driven
**Assistant Manager - Integration Technical Consultant (STS) **to join their team.

This is an exciting opportunity to expand your skillset, and achieve job satisfaction and work-life balance.

**As an IT Consultant, your core responsibilities will include the following**:
- Be a particular domain expert and respective integration expert in terms of system logic, data flow, and data quality.

- Work closely with relevant business unit (BU) Product Owners to ensure that blueprint business processes are followed (as opposed to customizing IT solutions).

- Clarify and analyze requirements from a technical point of view and bridge business requirements into technical requirements, business blueprint into system blueprint, customization of market legal requirements as well as identification and definition of integrations with global and/or regional systems.

- Check to code and review the design/solutions to ensure the quality and those solutions are configurable as opposed to being hard-coded.

- Be able to sense the critical topics from the rollout, markets, and other stakeholders and proactively address the topics with proposals accordingly.

- Work closely with the Solutions Architect to initiate new architect solutions or revamp the existing architect solutions, compose technical user stories/tasks based on defined solutions, and by following company security guidelines or mitigation proposals proactively as well as ensure this kind of user stories/tasks is implemented on time.

- Assess demands critically in the context of business value - i.e. evaluate the business case of each change requested, agree with BU Product owner to approve or decline, and prioritize accordingly.

- Collaborate with BU Production owner to obtain business use cases and translate business use cases into proper system end-to-end test cases/scenarios.

- Govern and drive QA and ensure the quality of system integration testing in line with the agreed scope in quality on time.

- Prepare and structure the user acceptance test and support UAT and go-live hyper care.

- Actively participate in relevant workshops and meetings, and conduct GAP analysis together with relevant Product Owners.

- Ensure that user stories are sufficiently detailed to enable as-fast-as-possible development processes.

**Qualifications**:
**_Education & Experience: _**
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology / Computer Science / Software Engineering.
- 3+ years of experience working in software development projects a significant part of which is in an IT / Business consultant role.
- Proven track record in developing and implementing digital projects.
- Ability to work independently with mínimal supervision.
- Experience within the automotive field of business preferred.

**_Soft skills: _**
- Self-reliant working style.
- Working in an international and multicultural context.
- Good planning and organizational skills.
- Good communication skills (in writing, verbally, and visually).
- Ability to multitask and manage different priorities, with a focus to deliver on time.
- Independent self-motivator without losing connection with management.
- Effective change management agent.
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a solution-oriented context.

**_Functional Competencies: _**
- Previous technical consultant/solution consultant experience is mandatory; preferably in the automobile industry.
- Should have rolled out one or more products into multiple markets; according to customizable blueprint solutions.
- Intermediate level scripting skills required - e.g. power-shell scripts.
- Strong understanding of API architecture, request payloads, and response payloads - e.g. JSON.
- Strong technical understanding to do high-level feasibility analysis on new features for the products.
- Intermediate-level skills required on Linux, Windows, and Docker.
- Ability to understand infrastructure topics and support the team on interface and connectivity topics.
- Hands-on experience with Postman to automate API calls for other interfaces, and to gauge 3rd party APIs.
- Knowledge of related trends such as DevOps, Performance Engineering, Containers (Docker), etc.