Technical Design Expert, KONECT/KFM

Main responsibilities

• Work closely with the product owner and other team members to clarify proposed changes to IT products and/or platform from a technical point of view.

• Responsible for bringing the technical point of view, during backlog refinement and prioritization, including for example scoping the technical changes, estimating their complexity and efforts.

• Accountable and responsible for the integrity and quality of the technical design of the IT product and/or platform through its lifecycle. Create fit-for-purpose and fit-for-use technical designs to implement the prioritized backlog items, Accountable for ensuring non-functional requirements are addressed in the technical design.

• Responsible for making sure the technical design continues to be in alignment with applicable quality and compliance standards (e. g. , cybersecurity and data models and standards), and is aligned with IT Product and/or platform roadmap.

• Responsible for keeping the complexity of technical designs low, by for example, minimizing custom implementations and actively promoting out of the box functionality where applicable.

• Responsible for ensuring that technical dependencies between the IT products and/or platforms are planned and implemented in accordance with agreed architecture guidelines.

• Accountable & Responsible for reviewing, validating, and approving technical changes Provide required technical guidance to the team members.

• Play an active role in ensuring that applicable Flow IT processes are followed within the teams. (e. g. , Develop & Release, Govern Architecture, Govern Quality)

• Support product owner of product lifecycle management. Taking a lifecycle view of the IT product and/or platform, play proactive role in identifying improvements to performance, eliminating technical debt in IT products and/or platforms Play a proactive role in technology management to avoid technical debt. Work with product owners to prioritize such improvements.

• Support Operations teams in addressing critical operational issues

• Responsible for technology management activities and supporting activities related to technical health checks, upgrades and maintenance of the technical elements of the IT products and/or platforms throughout their lifecycle.

• Accountable for Maintaining up-to-date technical documentation including technical design specifications in accordance with applicable architecture guidelines, taking accountability for the overall quality of the technical documentation of the IT products and/or platforms in scope.

• Works closely with other agile team members and actively promotes DevOps ways of working within the Product team. Plays an active role in improving & maintaining DevOps maturity capabilities and agile ways of working within the team.

Requirements for the role

• Self-motivated professional with strong will and desire to technically manage the Field Service Management Product (KONECT)

• Experienced technical professional in BMC Action Request technology to further develop a fully custom developed product.

• Excellent experience with SQL foundations

• Experience with SQL advanced (stored procedure, indexes, triggers)

• At least basic knowledge with Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services and SQL Server Reporting Services.

• Fast learning capability to understand the business and product viewpoint, make mapping to the technical needs.

• Familiarity and experience in design thinking techniques.

• Financial and business acumen with practical experience on manufacturing maintenance business and process.

• Strong experience with agile, DevOps ways of working and Value- driven prioritization and execution practices.

• Excellent communication, networking and stakeholder management skills.

• Leading virtual matrix technical team with outstanding emotional intelligence skills, able to motivate team, remove the impediment, build excellent collaboration and psychological safe environment, champion for teamwork

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