Senior Director Technology Consultancy

Job Description

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:The role of the Technology Consultant is responsible for the planning, installing and for theconfiguration of software solutions and systems. It is capable to support employees with specificapplications and provides expert advisory. The role analyzes information systems of adidas andindividualizes specific system solutions to meet the demand of the business.Key Responsibilities: Consultancy? Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, deliveringanalysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options,implementing if required.? Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informalconsultancy agreements.? Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of clientpersonnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriatelyexploited.Specialist advice? Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiablespecialisms.? Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s).? Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiplesources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisationalobjectives.? Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within theorganisation.Business analysis? Takes responsibility for investigative work to determine business requirements and specifyeffective business processes, through improvements in information systems, informationmanagement, practices, procedures, and organisation change.? Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques;selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile)approaches.? Collaborates with stakeholders at all levels, in the conduct of investigations for strategystudies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.? Prepares business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefitsthrough development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.Requirements definition and management? Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large,complex initiatives.? Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods,tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches oradaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.? Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range ofstakeholders.? Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.? Establishes requirements baselines.? Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.? Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards.Systems design? Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreedarchitectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.? Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.? Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of thearchitecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.? Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enableapproval by stakeholders.? Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems.? Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.Systems integration and build? Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other systemcomponents and equipment for systems testing.? Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and reporton progress.? Defines complex/new integration builds.? Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.? Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.? Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configurationmanagement system.? Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.Porting/software configuration? Leads a team, providing expert technical knowledge in the systems testing of platform[1]specific versions of the software products, on varying platforms.? Provides specialist guidance information to support, systems testing and quality assurancefunctions to assist in improving procedures.Application support? Maintains application support processes, and checks that all requests for support are dealtwith according to agreed procedures.? Uses application management software and tools to investigate issues, collect performancestatistics and create reports.People Management / Resource Management ? Responsible for salary reviews, recruitment, selection, assessment, on-boarding andtransitioning of resources.? Manages the effective implementation of resource planning, recruitment, selection,assessment, on-boarding and transitioning of resources.? Advises on standards, methods and tools for resource management.? Ensures compliance with relevant statutory or external regulations and codes of goodpractice.? Contributes to the development of resource management policies, standards and guidelinesand to audits and assessment of resource management processes.? Ensures appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating amotivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained andprovided with career opportunities through development? Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity,workload and organizational efficiency? Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with thesupport of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changesto meet business needs.? Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned withbusiness needs and GIT objectivesKey Relationships:? Global IT? Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)? HR Management? ControllingRequisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:? Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT orrelated areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience? Proficient spoken and written command of English? At least 15-year experience in IT? 12 years of experience in relevant area? 10 years of experience in team management including professional grade? Living or working outside home market? Lead local market/function projects and

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