Technical Architect BI (m/f)

At adidas Group, our love of sport drives who we are and what we do. But just as a ball is more than leather and thread, and a shoe more than padding and plastic, we are bigger than our products. We don’t just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics: We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it’s hard work inventing the future of sport, and that’s why we love it; that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs.

At adidas Group, this drive it what connects us, whether we’re working for TaylorMade, adidas, Reebok, or Rockport. We’re all working toward a future motivated by passion, original thinking, and the desire to build upon a proud legacy.

Purpose:

Technical Architect provides architecture design and governance for BI solutions. He/she is a key element to implement a cultural change for the BI service portfolio looking end-to-end by transforming the BI strategy “Creating the New BI”. The role will focus to support fulfilling the growing demand for extended BI Solutions and provide key skills for BI areas mobile, go-to-Market, operational reporting and analytics.

Technical Architect specifies and designs Business Intelligence systems to meet defined business needs utilizing state of the art design patterns to implement the best solutions.

Technical Architect is responsible for the identification of concepts through the eyes of the user and their translation into implementable design, the design or selection of components, the retention of compatibility with enterprise and solution architectures, and the adherence to corporate standards within constraints of cost, security and sustainability.

Key Responsibilities:

BI Platform governance

• Providing BI advisory services by contributing to feasibility study in partnership with business counterparts during the project assessment phase for small-size changes.
• Performs quality reviews on key project milestones according to defined governance rules and quality gates in partnership with onshore or offshore delivery leads for small- and mid-size projects.
• Develops or manages development of automated governance tools e.g. quality gates checks.
• Regularly executes system’s health checks with available and developed governance tools ensuring BI platform sustainability.

Solution Architecture

• Contributes to the solution architecture of small- and mid-size applications in one or more functional areas. Delivers designs for Operational/Management/Analytical applications with compliance to Global BI guidelines, standards, considering Mobile culture, ensuring global system stability and security.
• Uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business or functional areas.
• Produces detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products.
• Within a business change program, assists in the preparation of technical plans and cooperates with business assurance and project staff to ensure that appropriate technical solutions are made available.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.

Technical Knowledge

• Maintains knowledge of technical specialization, provides detailed advice regarding BI solution architecture and executes specialized tasks.
• The specialization can be in any layer of BI technological stack with a focus on a backend data warehousing, database modelling or frontend technology (currently SAP BW, SAP HANA, Microstrategy).

Requirements definition and management

• Defines scope and business priorities for small-scale changes and may assist in larger scale scoping exercises.
• Elicits and discovers requirements from operational management and other stakeholders.
• Selects appropriate techniques for the elicitation of detailed requirements taking into account the nature of the required changes, established practice and the characteristics and culture of those providing the requirements.
• Specifies and documents business requirements as directed, ensuring traceability back to source.
• Analyses them for adherence to business objectives and for consistency, challenging positively as appropriate.
• Works with stakeholders to prioritize requirements.

Data Analysis

• Applies data analysis, data modelling, and quality assurance techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of business processes, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Advises application development team members on the details of data structures and associated components.

Systems Design

• Specifies user/system interfaces, and translates logical designs into physical designs taking account of target environment, performance requirements and existing systems.
• Produces detailed designs and documents all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.
• Delivers technical visualization of proposed applications for approval by customer and execution by system developers.

Individual responsibilities

• Plays a role of master data application owner for one or more master data domain, acts as a SPOC for IT and Business partners covering all topics related to the domain.
• Contributes to One Version of the Truth by acting as a quality gate keeper for one or more BI-as-a-Service (BIaaS) areas in partnership with IT teams in the markets.
• Maintains up-to-date Global BI data dictionary in partnership with Business counterparts.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong level of Data warehouse design and development OR Business intelligence frontend development. Experience with in-memory technology. Products in focus – SAP BW, SAP HANA, Microstrategy.
• English language (fluent)
• Acquiring a proper understanding of a problem or situation by breaking it down systematically into its component parts and identifying the relationships between these parts, selecting the appropriate method/tool to resolve the problem and reflecting on the result.
• Identifying gaps in the available information required to understand a problem or situation and devising means of remedying such gaps.
• Understanding the needs of the internal or external customer and keeping them in mind when taking actions or making decisions
• Being proactive, taking action and anticipating opportunities.
• Applying quality standards to all tasks undertaken and ensuring that nothing is overlooked.
• Communicating effectively by word of mouth.
• Communicating effectively in writing and via emails.
• Working co-operatively (rather than competitively) with others to achieve a common goal.
• Four-year college or university degree (B.Sc.) with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years IT experience. At least 2+ in Solution or Technical / Software Architecture

We’re looking forward to receiving your application!