Adidas SENIOR TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT 

China, Shanghai, Yangpu District 

670162705

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.

Business analysis

• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
• Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
• Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

Requirements definition and management

• Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritization of requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
• Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

Porting/software configuration

• Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platform-specific versions of one or more software products.
• Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.

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.

People Management / Resource Management:

• Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of candidates
• 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 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

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Proficient spoken and written command of English
• At least 7-year experience in IT
• 5 years of experience in relevant area
• 2 years of experience in team management
• Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer
• Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects