Assistant Manager

We are looking for highly motivated individual to join us in supporting the agile building and delivering of robust blueprint software solutions within the Omni-channel product development area by analyzing, translating, filtering and prioritizing demands originating from the respective user communities, business units, and ensuring delivery of demands in quality on time meanwhile supporting rollout and providing system consultancy.

***Job Requirements and Qualifications**:
Education & Experience:

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

Soft skills:

- Self-reliant working style
- Self-learning and adaptation into dynamic cross departmental functions and integrations
- Working in an international and multi-cultural context
- Good spoken and written English
- Good planning and organizational skills
- Good communication skills (in writing, verbally, and visually)
- Ability to multitask and manage different priorities, with 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
- Experience in rolling 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, 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
- Good to have exposure regarding coding (.net CORE, React) to support developers on conceptual level
- Knowledge of related trends such as DevOps, performance Engineering, Containers (Docker) etc.
- Familiar with the Atlassian Toolchain specifically JIRA and Confluence
- Master testing automation e.g. Tosca in certain level
- Have strong adaptability for Agile SAFe working environment and being resilient in project management and rollout management

**Job Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Be an particular domain expert and respective integration expert in terms of system logic, data flow and data quality
- Drive, steer and facilitate vendor e.g. external ITC, developers, release manager and scrum master to follow Mercedes-Benz development guideline, IT security guideline as well as Data protection and privacy guideline
- Work closely with relevant 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
- Match the requirements with system design and relay back to the product development teams in a clear and structured way to enable them to develop accordingly
- Govern the conceptual design by ITC and system design from development team
- Check coding and review the design/solutions to ensure the quality and that solutions are configurable as opposed to being hard-coded
- Work closely with the Solutions Architect to initiate new architect solution or revamp the existing architect solutions, ensure that solutions at all times adhere to Mercedes-Benz guideline and industry best practices, compose technical user stories/tasks based on defined solutions and by following Mercedes-Benz security guideline or mitigation proposal proactively or actively and ensure this kind of user stories/tasks implemented on time
- Participate in PI and IP and commit to Agile Release Train to assess demands critically in the context of business value - i.e. evaluate the business case of each change requested, and agree with BU Product owner to approve or decline, and prioritize accordingly as well as to collaborate with BU Production owner to obtain business use cases and translate business use cases into proper system end to end test cases/scenarios
- Participate in and contribute to all SCRUM events especially Grooming, Review and Retrospective
- Own and steer the demand process in close coll