Software Engineer - IT Distribution

Job description

Country: China (Peoples Republic of)
Job Function: Supply Chain Management

State / Province: China (Peoples Republic of)
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Suzhou
Brand: adidas

Relocation: No

Somewhere, in one of our workshops right now, the future is taking shape. We are constantly working to redefine the way clothing and footwear transforms the pitch, court or course. This is what drives us: the feeling of discovery and the urge to innovate. When we create a product that makes our hearts beat faster, we know we’re onto something.

If this sounds inspiring, you might be one of us: Someone who loves to create the present, as well as shape the future. There’s a reason adidas has been at the forefront of defining sport for more than 60 years: We never stand still. Everyday, we work to improve everything we create.

At adidas, interesting, amazing and inspiring aren’t just ideas. They are what we do every single day.

Purpose:

This role will provide application technical support to local IT teams in their day-to-day technical issues in ensuring the warehouse applications are running without any business impact. He/she takes care of implementing industry best practices across all warehouse applications/platforms. In addition he/she is aware of upcoming/new technologies to support solution architects in designing the future applications. He/she aligns & leases with the infrastructure on changes, issue resolution and day to day operations. He/she optimizes/reduces the amount of rework, thereby improving the total cost of development, through standardization, re-usability and first time quality

Key Responsibilities:

· Partner with local IT & Operations teams to help drive business decisions and re-engineer business processes; take a complex abstract level need as described by subject matter experts and break it down to the individual requirements that would aggregate to fulfill that need
· Participate in new process implementation activities
· Translate business requirements into external/internal design documentation
· Leverage functionality of WMS application to satisfy requirements from multiple business units and to facilitate business process improvement and innovation
· Ability to perform code review to comply with established standards and desired quality level
· Provide technical application support to the user community
· Collaboration with Global IT Infrastructure team to ensure continues monitoring database and WMS systems
· Collaborate with various teams (Global IT Infrastructure, Operations, Local IT leads, Global IT Security) to execute the change management for software deliveries
· Participate in the maintenance of software environments and follow standards for Software patches and change requests.
· Assist in development of production cut-over plans
· Ability to perform code review to comply with established standards and desired quality level
· Accountable for meeting project schedules by executing assigned project tasks
· Advise the project manager of project status and problems of specific assignments
· Resolve technical issues and escalate when appropriate
· Technical support for all test phases – unit, integration, performance, regression and user acceptance testing
· Develop and execute test scenarios required to verify system enhancements and new business application modules/release
· Provide input into the future functionality, implementation methodology and customization standards

Key Relationships:

· Project implementation teams (project managers, design architects, technical architects)
· Local IT operations managers and subject matter experts
· Technical experts managing other systems (e.g. MHE) in the warehouse
· adidas internal level 2 application support
· Strategic vendors (global) – Manhattan, WCS and Service Vendors for development
· Other internal adidas competence centers (Global IT Infrastructure, Global IT Security, Global Testing, Global Architecture Group)

Knowledge Skills and Abilities :

· Expert Knowledge of PL/SQL and relational database systems (Oracle preferred)
· Experience with Manhattan’s WMS (Warehouse Management System) or other supply chain execution systems is a plus. Experience with Java and the Manhattan “Platform” architecture will be an added qualification for this role, but is not mandatory.
· Experience with Supply Chain Intelligence (or any other reporting in Cognos environment) experiences are a plus
· Experience with ant/maven and other build tools in a Jenkins based CI environment is a plus
· Experience in Unix/Linux scripting is a plus
· Good knowledge of application performance tuning and refactoring
· Experience in working with virtual team setup
· Must be self-motivated with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
· Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills
· Ability to work individually or in a team environment
· Expected travel is 20% or less (International if needed)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

· Four-year college or university degree with focus on Information Technology or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
· Minimum of 3-5 years of progressive work experience