Job Description

Tasks
About Us
Mercedes-Benz is USA is responsible for the sales, marketing and service of all Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States. In our people, you will find tremendous commitment to our corporate values. Our products and employees reflect this dedication. We are looking for diverse top-notch individuals to join the Mercedes-Benz Team and uphold these hallmarks.
Job Overview
This position will be responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance to the project and development teams enabling multi-layered architecture according to business, application, data, and infrastructure designs. You will work closely with diverse teams of Enterprise Architects, Subject Matter Experts and technical development teams who share a passion for technology and desire to implement solutions that adhere to industry's best practices. Ability to understand and adopt IT technologies in accordance with Enterprise Architecture direction is crucial to success in this position.
Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the project team to design the overall solution, implementation of software systems, applications and related products. Research systems, software, products and technical issues with projects and interface architectures. Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Solutions Architects, and other Technology working groups to align and advance our Technology Roadmaps. - 40%
• Provide guidance to development teams during the analysis, development and testing processes, as well as present technical updates to governance boards. Assist developers during solution development, testing and support deployment of solutions. - 20%
• Prepare detailed flow charts and diagrams outlining technical roadmaps, systems capabilities and business processes. Follow all published MBFS processes and procedures including security. - 20%
• Create project proposals/approaches for new initiatives. Evaluate new technologies and manage development of proof of concepts (POCs). - 15%
• Administrative tasks such as meetings, documentation, etc.. - 5%

Additional Responsibilities

• Additional Responsibilities (Optional): Application architecture and technology trends and roadmap - Weekly - ITM associates and their business customers - Strategy, Agility, Efficiency and Effectiveness of IT
• Technical guidance and assistance, system updates, systems integration, proposal recommendations, solution decisions - Weekly - ITM application development teams - Cost, Efficiency
• Vendor interaction towards system-related products and services, tools selection, solution implementation - Monthly - ITM dept - Cost, Efficiency
• Application teams - Gather business and nonfunctional requirements from application teams.
• Provide system integration guidance and infrastructure design assistance. Collaborate with teammates on application integration and design activities. - Daily - IT Management

Qualifications
Qualifications
Experience & Skills

• Min. level of education: Bachelor's Degree or/and Master's Degree

Minimum 5+ years of experience in IT.

• Field of study, e.g. Finance/HR/IT etc.: Computer/Information Science;#Information Technology, Computer/Information Science, Information Technology

3+ years' experience of software development lifecycle (SDLC), Object Orientated analysis and design.
3+ years' experience with SQL, Hibernate, Web Services (REST and/or SOAP).
Experience in JSON, XML, HTTPs and relevant protocols, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML5 and relevant tools/frameworks, Java and UDB DB2 database technologies.
Experience with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, WebSphere, and Maven.
Proficiency with Agile Development Techniques (including TDD, JUnit, Mocks).
Working knowledge of source control software (SVN, Git or TFS)
Working knowledge with CI/CD Technologies and Best Practices.
Additional Information
Analytical Skills - Ability to Collect data and establish facts and identify trends and variances, Ability to Formulate and test hypotheses for the purpose of forecasting outcomes, Ability to Integrate information from a variety of sources with varied levels of complexity, Ability to Review and interpret and evaluate statistical information
IT Skills - Application development, Database, Technologies/Web, Middleware, Programming, Testing
PC Skills - Microsoft Office
Presentation Skills
Problem Solving Skills
Project Management Skills - Project leader, Team member.
EEO Statement
Mercedes-Benz USA is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of our team. We provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, age, national origin, religion, marital status, veteran status, physical or other disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Skills Required