<div>Adidas is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders (incl. 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.</div> <div>*We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process</div> <h2 style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:18.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight:normal"> Senior Platform Engineer - SAP BTP </h2> <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0cm"> Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: 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. </div> Key Responsibilities: Specialist advice <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s). </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">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. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Share the knowledge, guidelines, and best practices within the SAP community at adidas.</li> </ul> Emerging technology monitoring <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">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.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.</li> </ul> Programming/software development <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Architect, develop and implement projects based on proven development methodologies for SAP BTP, and other modern Cloud Development Frameworks on hyperscalers.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.</li> </ul> System design <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Define and ensure internal SAP BTP guidelines to bring consistency.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications.</li> </ul> Database design <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, to evaluate alternative options.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.</li> </ul> Testing <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">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).</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Produces test scripts, materials, and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources, and tools. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Interprets, executes, and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Records and analyses actions and results and maintains a defect register. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provides specialist advice to support others. </li> </ul> Systems integration and build <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Defines complex/new integration builds. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Designs, performs, and reports results of tests of the integration build. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.</li> </ul> Porting/software configuration <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Configures software and equipment and tests platform-specific versions of one or more software products. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Reports the outcome of testing and identifies potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs and standards.</li> </ul> Availability management <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Contributes to the availability management process and its operation and performs defined availability management tasks. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability, and serviceability. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all their agreed performance targets and service levels. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Conducts testing of recovery procedures.</li> </ul> Service level management <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Analyses service records against agreed service levels regularly to identify actions required to maintain or improve levels of service, and initiates or reports these actions.</li> </ul> Release and deployment <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Assesses and analyses release components. Provides input to scheduling. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">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. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained.</li> </ul> Capacity management <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Monitors service component capacity and initiates actions to resolve any shortfalls according to agreed procedures. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Applies techniques to control the demand upon a particular resource or service. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Contributes to capacity modelling and planning. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Supports the design of service component capacity.</li> </ul> Relationship management <ul style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-bottom:2.0pt"> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan. </li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. </li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. </li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm 2.0pt 0.0px;line-height:14.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.<a name="_Hlk531341574"></a></li> </ul> If required: People Management / Resource Management: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of candidates </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload, and organizational efficiency</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">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.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives </li> </ul> Key Relationships: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Global IT</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">HR Management</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Controlling</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Proficient spoken and written command of English </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">At least 7-year experience in IT </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">5 years of experience in relevant area</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">2 years of experience in team management</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects</li> </ul>

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