Software Engineer

 Date: August 2022 Page 1 of 4 Software Engineer Area: IT - Software Engineering / Development Subsidiary/Country: Germany Location: Herzogenaurach GSMS Grade: M4 Number of Personnel Managed: see most recent Org Chart Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: tbd. TECH Job Family: Software Engineering Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. Key Responsibilities: Specialist advice Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization s planning and operations. Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization. Emerging technology monitoring 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. Information security Communicates information security risks and issues to business managers and others. Performs basic risk assessments for small information systems. Contributes to vulnerability assessments. Applies and maintains specific security controls as required by organizational policy and local risk assessments. Investigates suspected attacks. Responds to security breaches in line with security policy and records the incidents and action taken. Date: August 2022 Page 2 of 4 Requirement and definition management Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for smallscale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives. Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements. Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required. Prioritizes requirements and documents traceability to source. Reviews requirements for errors and omissions. Provides input to the requirements baseline. Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy. Software design Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems. Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs. Models, simulates, or prototypes the behavior of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Programming/software development Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or 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. Database design 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. Date: August 2022 Page 3 of 4 Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics. Testing Reviews requirements and specifications and defines test conditions. Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting outcomes. Analyses and reports test activities and results. Identifies and reports issues and risks associated with own work. System integration and build Defines the software modules needed for an integration build and produces a build definition for each generation of the software. Accepts completed software modules, ensuring that they meet defined criteria. Produces software builds from software source code for loading onto target hardware. Configures the hardware and software environment as required by the system being integrated. Produces integration test specifications, conducts tests and records and reports on outcomes. Diagnoses faults and records and reports on the results of tests. Produces system integration reports. Release and deployment Uses the tools and techniques for specific areas of release and deployment activities. Administers the recording of activities, logging of results and documents technical activity undertaken. May carry out early life support activities such as providing support advice to initial users. Application support Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures. Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics. Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks. If required: People Management / Resource Management: May be involved and gives some input on hiring Transition decisions Ensures appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained, and provided with career opportunities through development Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload, and organizational efficiency Date: August 2022 Page 4 of 4 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 Key Relationships: Global IT Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail) HR Management Controlling Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience Proficient spoken and written command of English At least 5-year experience in IT 2 years of experience in relevant area 1 year of experience in team management Understanding of different culture Participated in projects with people from other functions/markets

 

•   COURAGE:  Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need. .

•   OWNERSHIP:  Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.

•   INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.

•   TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.

•   INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company s standards.

•   RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.