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Job Description : Skills Required : SAP Licensing & Compliance across On-Prem, RISE, ERP on Cloud, SaaS, Hybrid licensing environments. Asset & License Management Analyst : The ideal candidate will be responsible for reviewing, managing, and auditing SAP product licenses to ensure compliance and optimal utilization of products and services within the organization. - Develops, implements and continuously drives optimizations in the License, Asset & configuration management process, both within Akzonobel as with our strategic partners. - Will develop and implement procedures for tracking company assets to oversee quality control & compliance throughout their lifecycles. - Regularly reports out to relevant stakeholders on the license position per software product across the globe, including signaling potential risks and optimization potentials and financials. - Supports IT Projects & Programs in during the project stages to the identification of License & Asset requirements, identification of procurement activities needed with Contract & Vendor Management/Sourcing and support the project team in developing the optimal charging mechanism. - Manages and organizes periodical license audits conducted by software suppliers/vendors, including developing the right strategy per audit in cooperation. Interaction with other departments : - Build trusted relationships with the business and colleagues from IT, Finance, Procurement, HR & Legal. - Support the designated Contract & Vendor Managers (Sourcing department) in managing global license/asset and vendor relations to agree the most strategically advantageous commercial license arrangement. Job Requirements : Experience / Education : - Master/ bachelor degree in business management, computer science, computer engineering, or a related field of study. - Minimum 3 to 10 years experience required in a similar role in a complex international environment. - Demonstrated capability in implementing Software Asset Management frameworks and related software tooling (ServiceNow, SNOW, Flexera, Tachyon etc.,). - Demonstrated capability in managing software licenses and assets particularly SAP (mandatory). - Advanced excel skills (mandatory). - Experiences with IT/License audits (mandatory). - Demonstrated track record in optimizing License & Asset Management processes and driving optimizations in usage (cost-reductions). Key Generic Competencies : - Analytical thinker, structured, self-organized, execution driven, energetic. - Establishes relationships, ensures alignment and cooperation (shoulder to shoulder). - Internal drive to raise the bar by continuously looking for ways to improve current process. - Networker, establishes good outside in relationships, stays abreast of external trends. - Proactive and results driven, balancing analysis with doing to meet objectives. - High level of accuracy. - Lead by example and actively engage and motivate individuals.

Pune

SAP Licensing Expert 

Job Purpose : AkzoNobel is a global leader in paints and coatings, operating in over 150 countries with a strong commitment to innovation and sustainability. Our Digital Transformation Team is a pioneering unit functioning like a start-up within the company with a strong business case to curate these capabilities in Pune, India. We aim to transform one-third of our workforce (10,000 FTEs) into digitally fluent professionals, transition 10 billion in revenue through digital channels, and accelerate growth through next-generation platforms such as Web 2.0, Lead Management, CRM 2.0, eCommerce, and Order Management. This team combines platform innovation, process redesign, and human adoption to deliver measurable impact at scale. Joining the Digital Transformation team would place you at the heart of driving commercial digital excellence and strategic initiatives. As an Expert, you will shape the future of digital activation/ adoption by driving quality governance, technical excellence, and strategic improvements. You will lead demand planning, manage priorities, and act as a trusted advisor for complex digital initiatives. This role may include indirect managerial responsibilities as the size of the team is expected to grow significantly in 2026. Key Responsibilities : - Lead strategic planning and prioritization for large-scale, high-impact digital initiatives for maximum business impact and team efficiency. - Collaborate with marketing teams across the globe and across business units to maximize the impact of their (digital) marketing campaigns. - Serve as the owner of quality standards and governance; act as enterprise-wide gatekeeper ensuring full compliance with global regulatory and internal frameworks across all digital platforms. - Champion continuous improvement and innovation in digital service delivery; harness advanced analytics, automation, AI, and emerging technologies to drive efficiency, performance, and competitive advantage. - Mentor and develop high-performing teams, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and building lasting organizational digital capability and fluency. - Partner closely with IT, product, engineering, and business units to co-design scalable, future-proof solutions that align with enterprise architecture and long-term strategic objectives. Job Requirement : - 5 to 7 years in digital marketing or commercial operations. - Proven track record in quality governance and process improvement. - Strategic mindset with strong advisory skills. - Experience in leading cross-functional projects and driving adoption of digital platforms. - Excellent communication and comprehension skills, ability to engage with stakeholders from different BUs, across the globe. - Expertise in digital platforms (e.g., GA4, GTM, AEM, Contentful, CRM tools like HubSpot/ Salesforce) and AI-driven marketing tools. - Proficiency in agile methodologies (PI planning, sprints), queue systems (Jira), and quality frameworks (ITIL, Six Sigma basics). - Strong in data analytics for commercial insights (SQL, attribution modeling). - Experience in Google Analytics/Marketing, Agile/Scrum Master, or Digital Marketing Institute credentials. - Familiarity with global compliance standards and change management practices. Skills : - Operational excellence in managing SLAs, service queues, and delivery processes. - Stakeholder management: excellent communication and relationship-building skills. - Team Player, support to organize the team in the best possible fashion - Analytical mindset: ability to interpret data, generate insights, and guide performance improvements. - Project and program management: experience in managing complex, multi-stream digital initiatives.

Akzo Nobel - Marketo Subject Matter Expert - CRM Tools 

We are hiring for the role of Functional Engineer Celonis at Pune (Hybrid role), below are additional details as required. Skills Required : - Celonis, ETL, Process Mining, Data Modelling, Optimize Data & Performance, Dashboards, Action flows, AR(I2C), AP(I2P), Procurement, O2C, Order Management, SCM, Inventory etc. Description : - Develop and optimize SQL queries for data extraction and transformation. - Work extensively with PQL (Process Query Language) for process mining use cases. - Handle the ETL processes within Celonis, ensuring accurate data integration and transformation. - Build and configure dashboards and UI components in Celonis. - Work with Process Explorer and Case Explorer for process analysis and insights generation. - Analyze business processes and translate requirements into Celonis data models and visualizations. - Proactively identify risks, issues, and performance bottlenecks, and communicate effectively with stakeholders. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams while also working independently as a strong individual contributor. Mandatory Skills : - Strong hands-on experience in SQL - Experience with PQL (Process Query Language) in Celonis - Exposure to ETL processes in Celonis - Hands-on experience with UI development and Process Mining in Celonis - Experience working with Process Explorer & Case Explorer - Driving Results - Strong individual contributor with the ability to work effectively in a team environment - Flexible and adaptable to changing business needs - Proactive in identifying, addressing, and communicating risks and challenges Personal Attributes : - Dynamic, engaging, and self-reliant developer - Comfortable dealing with ambiguity - Strong analytical and collaborative mindset - Self-confident yet humble - Open to continuous learning and skill enhancement - Intelligent and rigorous thinker capable of working with high-performing teams

Akzo Nobel - Functional Engineer - Celonis 

Purpose of the Job : - (Ensure the) Design, develop, test, and implement IT solutions and processes in IT systems like applications, platforms and networks through IT changes, projects in line with global Information Technology (IT) and security guidelines, to support company business requirements to create company value. - In the Application Delivery Domain Cloud Development, the focus of this role will be on helping increase the adoption and the benefits from the use of public cloud (IAAS and PAAS) solutions. - The Functional Engineer in Application Delivery is responsible for detailing design and hardwiring business requirements as per Architectural and Security guidelines. This is done through projects, changes and Agile DevOps teams. - This requires high quality Stories (change specifications) and projects changes which will allow Engineers and/or Developers to translate into code/configuration. - The Functional Engineer sees to properly coordinate, review, approve and execute stories/project changes and has an active role monitoring status, in (unit)testing and change management once developed, including organizing sign-off after testing. - The Functional Engineer has an active role in the preparation and execution of the actual changes together with our partners and external consultants where applicable. - On request, a Functional Engineer can be asked to be involved in solving urgent high priority incidents and plays a role in process improvements along with business. - The work is either done being part of the responsibilities in the line management organization, in agile teams under the leadership of a Scrum Master, or in the case of a waterfall under the leadership of the Project Manager. - Depending on the seniority of the Engineer, he/she will also assume these project management activities as a role or will take the lead in delivery of end-to-end changes. - It is the intention that more and more work get done as part of the standing organization and no longer create a project for every single change that needs to be done. - You will be responsible for managing and working closely with a wide range of cloud services and applications, including Azure API Management, Azure B2C, Azure DevOps, SonarCloud, Azure Automation Runbooks (using Python), Azure Data Factory, and other key components of our platform. - In this role, you will not only maintain and optimize existing services but also actively contribute to the evolution of our infrastructure and processes. - We are increasingly looking to leverage AI and automation capabilities within our scope, enabling smarter workflows, improved efficiency, and innovative solutions for our teams. - Your work will have a direct impact on how our applications perform, scale, and integrate across the organization, providing opportunities to explore cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment. Key Responsibilities : - Story specification. - Translate business requirements into clear detailed designs. - Own and develop high quality Stories (change specifications) and project changes for Engineers and External Consultants to then translate into code or config and a proposal on a change implementation. Development & delivery : - Guide, coordinate and oversee the preparation and execution and implementation of the (project) changes and the development of the code/config of Stories. - Ensure that all partners follow established standards (process& documentation standards, coding and testing standards, naming conventions etc. - Review, Approve and control the implementation and/or embedding of new, enhancements and/or modifications of applications, systems and/or solutions. - This results in building sustainable and stable first-time right solutions in a very collaborate team spirit (also with external service providers) and in an engaging way with stakeholders and consumers of the solutions. - Solutions are built according to the Architectural and Security principles and changes are timely & adequately prepared & documented and/or code works as intended. Testing : - Own testing of changes or stories, and/or actively oversee testing by business. - Develop test scripts, examine test outcomes, sign off for unit testing and coordinate business sign off for Application Delivery related testing. - Contribute to test planning and test management for a specific release. - Resulting in, changes and/or code are properly and timely tested. Incident management : - Perform functional or technical problem analysis in case of incidents or issues as needed depending on the severity of the problem. - Perform root cause analysis, document these and share findings. - Deploy (or oversee deployment) of updates and fixes. - To ensure that issues, incidents, and problems are swiftly and effectively resolved. Process management and improvement : - Monitor, guard, test and analyze that the use and security of applications and systems regarding the functional and performance aspects are in line with the agreed performance indicators, and if necessary, take measures. - Actively contribute to process improvement : e.g. tool development, dashboard/insight development and visualization, script automation. - Has a good view of the technical state of the application (technical debt) and regularly discuss and works seamlessly together with the (domain)Architect to develop plans to resolve the technical debt. - Resulting in, available and optimally performing applications and IT infrastructure for the business and, DevOps process, tooling and dashboards are continuously improving. Project support : - Support a project manager by taking ownership of specific project deliverables (specifications, config, testing, etc. - Define, plan, manage and participate in assigned project deliverables from the own functional or technical domain, in accordance with the IT project manager and involved business project owners. - Resulting in, efficient and effective realization of project deliverables. Job Requirements : - In dept knowledge is not limited to a sub domain but to a full domain. - Understand integrations with other processes in SAP and also with other applications. - Has broad experience with Cloud platforms and can oversee complex solutions. - Can participate in more complex and bigger projects up to 500K and can coordinate and also review and approve changes. - Is a good sparring partner with process managers in business, suggests and advise them on process improvements and hardwiring it in solutions. - Excellent communication skills (verbally and in writing), able to explain technical matters in simple terms and clear specifications. - Fluent in agile & DevOps Concepts. - Draws conclusions based on complex analysis within subdomain and impacted other (sub)domains, proposes measures on optimizing tactical/strategic approaches and can estimate implementation efforts, designs and impacts for business and other (sub)domains. - Initiates, formulates and implements new processes and procedures for the functional discipline and contributes to policy development for the function. - Has led and completed a CI initiative (green belt). - Works under general guidance. - Work is incidentally checked by manager or senior colleagues, e. - following an incident, when needed as input into a bigger project, etc. - Coordinates activities of others. - Is asked to take the lead in meetings with external partners and internal Delivery and Operations teams. - 4 to 7 years of relevant work experience. - Relevant Bachelor or Master degree.

Akzo Nobel - Functional Engineer - Azure Cloud Development 

Description : We are hiring for the role of Functional Engineer, SAP Sales & Distribution at Pune (Hybrid role), below is the job description as required. Purpose of the job : - (Ensure the) Design, develop, test, and implement IT solutions and processes in IT systems like applications, platforms and networks through IT changes, projects in line with global Information Technology (IT) and security guidelines, to support company business requirements to create company value. - In the Application Delivery Domain Commercial the focus of this role will be on Order to Cash (and ideally also on and (Field) Service Management) processes in SAP and integrations of those processes into other systems. - The Functional Engineer in Application Delivery is responsible for detailing design and hardwiring business requirements as per Architectural and Security guidelines. - This is done through projects, changes and increasingly more through Agile DevOps teams. - This requires high quality Stories (change specifications) and projects changes which will allow Engineers and/or Developers to translate into code/configuration. - The Functional Engineer sees to properly coordinate, review, approve and execute stories/project changes and has an active role monitoring status, in (unit)testing and change management once developed, including organizing sign-off after testing. - The Functional Engineer has an active role in the preparation and execution of the actual changes together with our partners and external consultants where applicable. - On request, a Functional Engineer can be asked to be involved in solving urgent high priority incidents and plays a role in process improvements alongside with business. - The work is either done being part of the responsibilities in the line management organization, in agile teams under the leadership of a Scrum Master, or in the case of a waterfall under the leadership of the Project Manager. - Depending on the seniority of the Engineer, he/she will also assume these project management activities as a role or will take the lead in delivery of end-to-end changes. - It is the intention that more and more work get done as part of the standing organization and no longer create a project for every single change that needs to be done. - The Functional Engineer will participate in improving the way we manage our financials. - This includes but is not limited to entering POs for everything that needs to be done before the work starts. - Ensuring we have the right provisions in place that reflect the expected spend, even if invoices come in much later. - Proper contract and supplier management needs to be executed to ensure that existing contracts are timely renewed given us enough time to see how we can improve/optimize the current conditions or to stop a current service or support. Job Requirements : Minimum 15 years of experience as SAP consultant in the following areas : - In depth knowledge of SAP modules SD, ideally also with CS. - Knowledge and experience with SAP modules MM, LE, FI, CO. - Being a process expert for your domain. - Experience in larger multidisciplinary projects. - Have fulfilled roles as leading consultant, team lead in multidisciplinary projects. - Development of integration with 3 party applications such as customer EDI systems. - Owner of End-to-End technical changes. Configuration (build) : - ABAP debugging experience is a plus. - Being able to advise the business on improvements to the related business processes. - Experience in Agile way of working. - Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and translate business needs into IT solutions. - Understanding of impact the SAP solution on business stakeholder. Key Responsibilities : Story specification : - Translate business requirements into clear detailed designs. - Own and develop high quality Stories (change specifications) and project changes for Engineers and External Consultants to then translate into code or config and a proposal on a change implementation. Development & delivery : - Guide, coordinate and oversee the preparation and execution and implementation of the (project) changes and the development of the code/config of Stories. - Ensure that all partners follow established standards (process& documentation standards, coding and testing standards, naming conventions etc. - Review, Approve and control the implementation and/or embedding of new, enhancements and/or modifications of applications, systems and/or solutions. - This results in building sustainable and stable first-time right solutions in a very collaborate team spirit (also with external service providers) and in an engaging way with stakeholders and consumers of the solutions. - Solutions are built according to the Architectural and Security principles and changes are timely & adequately prepared & documented and/or code works as intended. Testing : - Own testing of changes or stories, and/or actively oversee testing by business. - Develop test scripts, examine test outcomes, sign off for unit testing and coordinate business sign off for Application Delivery related testing. - Contribute to test planning and test management for a specific release. - Resulting in, changes and/or code are properly and timely tested. Incident management : - Perform functional or technical problem analysis in case of incidents or issues as needed depending on the severity of the problem. - Perform root cause analysis, document these and share findings. - Deploy (or oversee deployment) of updates and fixes. - To ensure that issues, incidents, and problems are swiftly and effectively resolved. Process management and improvement : - Monitor, guard, test and analyze that the use and security of applications and systems regarding the functional and performance aspects are in line with the agreed performance indicators, and if necessary, take measures. - Actively contribute to process improvement : e.g. tool development, dashboard/insight development and visualization, script automation. - Has a good view of the technical state of the application (technical debt) and regularly discuss and works seamlessly together with the (domain)Architect to develop plans to resolve the technical debt. - Resulting in, available and optimally performing applications and IT infrastructure for the business and, DevOps process, tooling and dashboards are continuously improving. Project support : - Support a project manager by taking ownership of specific project deliverables (specifications, config, testing, etc. - Define, plan, manage and participate in assigned project deliverables from the own functional or technical domain, in accordance with the IT project manager and involved business project owners. - Resulting in, efficient and effective realization of project deliverables.

Akzo Nobel - Functional Engineer - SAP SD Modules 

Role Overview : We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Chatbot Developer with at least 5 years of experience in designing, developing, delivering, and operating large-scale chatbot solutions. This role involves strong technical leadership, end-to-end ownership, and the ability to collaborate across business teams and platform providers to convert requirements into scalable chatbot features. Key Responsibilities : - Lead the architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise-grade chatbot systems. - Build and optimize backend services, workflows, and integrations using Node.js, Python, and cloud-native technologies. - Run and maintain the chatbots overall operations, health, monitoring, reliability, and performance. - Actively monitor logs, analytics, dashboards, and alerts to ensure stability and SLA compliance. - Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement long-term corrective actions. - Collaborate with chatbot platform providers to implement new features, platform enhancements, and roadmap items. - Work with business stakeholders across multiple teams to gather requirements and convert them into clear deliverables and features. - Manage integrations, data flows, and automation with enterprise data systems, financial applications, and master data platforms. - Own the chatbots knowledge architecture including training material quality and knowledge management processes. - Drive continuous improvement in performance, accuracy, reliability, and user experience using analytics insights. - Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and uphold engineering best practices. - Implement DevOps and CI/CD workflows to streamline development and deployment. Required Skills & Qualifications : - Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - 5+ years of experience in chatbot development, conversational AI, or automation platforms. - Strong proficiency in Node.js and Python. - Deep understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns. - Experience with chatbot analytics, performance measurement, and operational insights. - Proven ability to manage end-to-end chatbot operations, upgrades, monitoring, and optimizations. - Strong stakeholder collaboration skills with experience working across multiple teams and business functions. - Ability to convert business requirements into structured technical deliverables. - Experience with DevOps pipelines, CI/CD, Git, Docker, and cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP). - Strong architectural reasoning, debugging skills, and problem-solving capability. Technical Skills : - Experience integrating with data systems, financial systems, master data applications, or other enterprise platforms. - Understanding of financial data flows, master data structures, and backend process logic is a plus. - Hands-on experience building API-driven integrations and automation workflows. - Strong grasp of NLP concepts such as intents, entities, conversational flows, and training data optimization. Preferred Skills : - Experience with frameworks like Dialogflow, Rasa, Microsoft Bot Framework, Kore.ai, Moveworks, or similar. - Exposure to LLM-based features, generative AI, and advanced conversational design patterns. - Experience using observability tools for logs, metrics, alerts, and performance monitoring. - Knowledge of Mandarin is an added advantage, especially for collaborating with regional stakeholders or platform teams. - Prior experience working with external vendors or platform engineering teams on roadmap delivery. Soft Skills : - Strong leadership and ownership-driven mindset. - Excellent communication and cross-team coordination abilities. - Ability to mentor and guide junior developers. - Structured, proactive, and quality-focused approach to work.

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Akzo Nobel - Senior Chatbot Developer 

Job Description : We are hiring for the role of Digital Transformation Expert at Pune (Hybrid role), below are additional details as required. Primary skill required Expert level knowledge of Contentful. Secondary skills required Adobe Marketo, Digital Content, Google Analytics (GA4), Marketing Automation etc. Job Purpose : AkzoNobel is a global leader in paints and coatings, operating in over 150 countries with a strong commitment to innovation and sustainability. Our Digital Transformation Team is a pioneering unit functioning like a start-up within the company with a strong business case to curate these capabilities in Pune, India. We aim to transform one-third of our workforce (10,000 FTEs) into digitally fluent professionals, transition 10 billion in revenue through digital channels, and accelerate growth through next-generation platforms such as Web 2.0, Lead Management, CRM 2.0, eCommerce, and Order Management. This team combines platform innovation, process redesign, and human adoption to deliver measurable impact at scale. Joining the Digital Transformation team would place you at the heart of driving commercial digital excellence and strategic initiatives. As an Expert, you will shape the future of digital activation/ adoption by driving quality governance, technical excellence, and strategic improvements. You will lead demand planning, manage priorities, and act as a trusted advisor for complex digital initiatives. This role may include indirect managerial responsibilities as the size of the team is expected to grow significantly in 2026. Key Responsibilities : - Lead strategic planning and prioritization for large-scale, high-impact digital initiatives for maximum business impact and team efficiency. - Collaborate with marketing teams across the globe and across business units to maximize the impact of their (digital) marketing campaigns. - Serve as the owner of quality standards and governance; act as enterprise-wide gatekeeper ensuring full compliance with global regulatory and internal frameworks across all digital platforms. - Champion continuous improvement and innovation in digital service delivery; harness advanced analytics, automation, AI, and emerging technologies to drive efficiency, performance, and competitive advantage. - Mentor and develop high-performing teams, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and building lasting organizational digital capability and fluency. - Partner closely with IT, product, engineering, and business units to co-design scalable, future-proof solutions that align with enterprise architecture and long-term strategic objectives. Job Requirement : - 5 - 7 years in digital marketing or commercial operations. - Proven track record in quality governance and process improvement. - Strategic mindset with strong advisory skills. - Experience in leading cross-functional projects and driving adoption of digital platforms. - Excellent communication and comprehension skills, ability to engage with stakeholders from different BUs, across the globe. - Expertise in digital platforms (e.g., GA4, GTM, AEM, Contentful, CRM tools like HubSpot/ Salesforce) and AI-driven marketing tools. - Proficiency in agile methodologies (PI planning, sprints), queue systems (Jira), and quality frameworks (ITIL, Six Sigma basics). - Strong in data analytics for commercial insights (SQL, attribution modeling). - Experience in Google Analytics/Marketing, Agile/Scrum Master, or Digital Marketing Institute credentials. - Familiarity with global compliance standards and change management practices.

Maharashtra

Akzo Nobel - Digital Transformation Expert - Contentful 

Description : Greetings from AkzoNobel (Experts in the proud craft of making paints and coatings since 1792). We are hiring for the role of IT Operations Manager Digital Platforms at Pune (Hybrid role), below are additional skills as required. Skills Required IT Delivery Manager with Ecommerce background, Adobe Cloud Commerce, Adobe Experience Manager, Microsoft Azure, AWS, NewRelic, JIRA Service Management, Order Management, Executing Licenses and Managing Expenses. Job Purpose : - The AkzoNobel Digital team in IT is responsible for the DevOps delivery of our Digital Marketing, Commerce, Sales and Service capabilities. - Following a multi-disciplinary agile delivery setup, the IT team is responsible for the application and infrastructure delivery across our online channels (web, app, commerce and portals). - Next to the customer channels, the team is responsible to drive the technical capabilities / enablers to manage product information, compliance, analytics and integrations. - Within this team we are looking for a functional engineer who will be responsible to operate IT solutions and processes for our Digital Platform Portfolio. - AkzoNobel has a large portfolio of websites (1000+), apps (100+) and shops (100+), which we deliver to our customers across the globe. - All these customer facing solutions require high-quality features and functionalities across the channels. - Our current landscape consists of many various digital platforms incl commerce-of-the-shelve as well as bespoke build solutions. - The DevOps responsibilities include rollouts, replacements, continuous feature developments, IT operations, maintenance and support shared across multiple delivery teams. - The IT Operations Manager in the Digital Domain is responsible for running the live operations of our scaled platforms across Web, Commerce and Lead Management. - The IT service and infrastructure capacity planning processes, budget, the license management and the support to the business users will fall under the responsibilities of the IT Operations Manager. - The work delivery is organized in Agile/DevOps teams under the leadership of a Project Managers. - Depending on the seniority of the Engineer, he/she will also assume these Project Management activities as a role or will take the lead in delivery of end-to-end changes. - It is the intention that more and more work get done as the teams continue to stabilize and work more efficiently. - The IT Operations Manager for Digital will participate in improving the way we manage our financials. - This includes but is not limited to entering purchase orders and everything that needs to be done before the work starts. - Ensuring we have the right provisions in place that reflect the expected spend, even if invoices come in much later. - Proper contract and supplier management needs to be executed to ensure that existing contracts are timely renewed given us enough time to see how we can improve/optimize the current conditions or to stop a current service or support. Key Responsibilities : Development & delivery : - Guide, coordinate and oversee the preparation and execution and implementation of the changes and the development of the code/config of Stories. - Ensure that all partners follow established standards (process& documentation standards, coding and testing standards, naming conventions etc. - Review, Approve and control the implementation and/or embedding of new, enhancements and/or modifications of applications, systems and/or solutions. - This results in building sustainable and stable first-time right solutions in a very collaborate team spirit (also with external service providers) and in an engaging way with stakeholders and consumers of the solutions. - Solutions are built according to the Architectural and Security principles and changes are timely & adequately prepared & documented and/or code works as intended. Testing : - Own testing of changes or stories, and/or actively oversee testing by business. - Develop test scripts, examine test outcomes, sign off for unit testing and coordinate business sign off for Application Delivery related testing. - Contribute to test planning and test management for a specific release. - Resulting in, changes and/or code are properly and timely tested. Incident and Problem management : - Perform functional or technical problem analysis in case of incidents or issues as needed depending on the severity of the problem. - Perform root cause analysis, document these and share findings. - Deploy (or oversee deployment) of updates and fixes. - To ensure that issues, incidents, and problems are swiftly and effectively resolved. Process management and improvement : - Monitor, guard, test and analyze that the use and security of applications and systems regarding the functional and performance aspects are in line with the agreed performance indicators, and if necessary, take measures. - Actively contribute to process improvement tool development, dashboard/insight development and visualization, script automation. - Has a good view of the technical state of the application (technical debt) and regularly discuss and works seamlessly together with the (domain)Architect to develop plans to resolve the technical debt. - Resulting in, available and optimally performing applications and IT infrastructure for the business and, DevOps process, tooling and dashboards are continuously improving. Project support : - Support a project manager by taking ownership of specific project deliverables (specifications, config, testing, etc. - Define, plan, manage and participate in assigned project deliverables from the own functional or technical domain, in accordance with the IT project manager and involved business project owners. - Resulting in, efficient and effective realization of project deliverables. Job Requirements : Knowledge/ technical expertise : - The functional engineer has in-depth, advanced knowledge of complex applications, platforms and technologies and is able to oversee connections between applications and systems across domains and advises the business regarding innovative improvements. - He/She is THE Process expert for his/her domain and has a good understanding of processes in other domains. - Participates mostly in larger multidisciplinary projects or programs larger than 500K. - Can also run independently smaller projects as project manager till 500K or can play the rol of a scrum master in an Agile team Fluent in agile & DevOp concepts. Analysis : - Draws conclusions based on complex analysis (e. - scenario analysis), within domain and impacted other domains, proposes measures on optimizing strategic approaches and propose implementation plans, designs and approaches (including estimated implementation efforts) in alignment with Architects and impacts for business and other (sub)domains. Optimization : - Initiates, formulates and implements new processes and procedures for the functional discipline and contributes to policy development for the function. - Has led and completed a CI initiative (green belt). Impact : - Owns end-to-end technical change or Story specification, testing & deployment for a wide range of Functionality or Technicality and in complex environments. - Ensures proper testing & incident mgt complex and high impact/risk environments. - Aware of business developments and business needs and gives advice to translate business needs into functional and technical optimization of a group of applications and systems. Experience : - 7-10 years of relevant work experience. - Relevant Bachelor or Master degree.

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