Assignment Description

We are looking for a Software Engineer to our client in the automotive industry.

In general, the Software Engineer is part of an agile team that provides the digital functions required by the business to build cars and components in all their plants. This means that the software engineer takes part in both discussing and understanding business requirements, interpreting the requirements into digital functions, developing and testing them. Because the applications are used in all their production plants, it is important that their systems landscape is robust, scalable, and efficient but also to embrace modern new opportunities in order to assure we use the best technologies available. With an always-on mindset you will be assisting departments in the different plants in designing, configuring and managing solutions for their devices, tools and applications, in line with factory and corporate standards. You will also be working closely with the local IT site teams and be supported by global specialists and operations teams.

What you’ll do:

• You understand and reflect on the customer needs to bring value to the organization.
• You take part in the development cycle using innovative technologies and frameworks.
• You secure qualitative, efficient and performant deliveries.
• You provide input for the design and construction of test cases and scenarios and help validate executed test results.
• You contribute to boosting the team to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation
• You collaborate with suppliers, architects, engineers, developers, and internal stakeholders on upcoming and innovative technologies and standardization.
• You are a speaking partner towards the local IT site teams for problem/opportunity analysis.

Skills:

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer who has knowledge about:

• Databases (MS SQL (Azure),
• Development platforms (Java, OpenShift, …)
• Azure Cloud (App services, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Cluster)
• SQL server for database (Azure Storage, Azure Container Services)
• Frameworks (Spring, Springboot, WebFlux, …)
• Messaging (MQ, Kafka, REST API, …)
• Front-end (Angular)
• Test Driven Development (Unit testing in Spring Boot and Angular, in memory database testing using Mockito)
• Agile processes (Safe / Scrum / ADO)
• Backlog management
• Strategic planning
• Business relationship management
• Problem analysis
• Business modelling
• Experience using docker containers and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills
• Ability to convey ideas in written form and the capability to share those ideas verbally in a clear, concise manner to both technical specialists and people without technical knowledge
• Good facilitation, negotiation, documentation and specification skills
• Excellent ability topinpoint value creating activities connected towards a vision

Desired Attributes:

• You are an engineer that have at least a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Scienceor equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• You have education and preferably some experience in agile development practices, ITIL (incident, problem & change process), collaboration tools (such as Azure DevOps or similar), java development & support, relational databases (Oracle, SQL server, My SQL).
• We are happy to see applicants that are eager to learn and grow (themselves and us) using a modern approach to Software Engineering. As a person you enjoy working in a collaborative and empowered agile team environment.
• You are self-motivated, well organized and result oriented.
• You can build good relations with executives, colleagues, and project teams and you feel comfortable working within complex and global organizations.
• You can work under rapidly changing conditions and have the capability to identify, mitigate and decide on solutions when facing obstacles.
• You have an analytical mindset and the ability to think ahead.
• You are self-motivated and a strong driving force for quality, but also driving change and transformation.
• You are fluent in English, both verbally and written.
• You should have a general understanding of production processes and understand how all these things work together to make end user applications work well.
• Knowledge of the automotive industry is meritorious.