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 prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
●Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation 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 authorised requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.
Systems design
●Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, 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 the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.
●Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.
●Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems.
●Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications.
Software design
●Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology.
●Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements.
●Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
●Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems.
●Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications.
●Leads reviews of others’ designs.
●Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software.
●Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods.
Programming/software development
●Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
●Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
●Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
●Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.
Data modelling and design
●Investigates corporate data requirements, and applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
●Provides advice and guidance to database designers and others using the data structures and associated components.
Database design
●Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities.
●Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, in order to evaluate alternative options.
●Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.
●Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.
Systems integration and build
●Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing.
●Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on 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 configuration management system.
●Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
Relationship management
●Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan.
●Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
●Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
●Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
If required: People Management / Resource Management:
●Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of candidates
●Allocate 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
●Controlling
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
●Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
●Experience with SNP, IBP system and heuristic planning engine & Optimizer Planning Engine, CIDS & RTI Experties
●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 tea