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Client: BMWJob Title: IT Infrastructure Architect/IT Systems Engineer – 4025Duration: longtermLocation: 2 Research Drive, Greenville, SC 29607 United States WFH: Candidate must be local or willing to be local – because there is a portion of this job in person. 10-20% work from home availability. 1 day per week or 1 day every two weeks. This position sits at the ITRC but with a team of 14 people they rotate 1 week every 8 weeks working at Plant Spartanburg (located in Greer). Day to day: We are an Agile team. The typical in office time is 8am-4pm/5pm. This position is not an on-call position. No night or weekend work. Will also not be responsible for working holidays. This position is mainly a developer position. The primary product that we support is a web application that is reporting for the production control systems. That is for all BMW plants. That set of reports is what we provide to all 10-15 plants across the world. This is only the vehicle production plants. We are looking for Java and J2EE experience. Someone that can design Java web pages and Java front ends. We need someone who can own the product and continue to grow it for all the plants. The conversion of pre-existing reports is done. We are taking reports and if they are only available for Spartanburg we want to roll them out and make them available for the other international plants. They will need to work with international contacts. This person would do content steering for what they are working on. Must have: Java and J2EE need to have this experience Nice to have: Oracle database experience (this team uses Oracle and this is what the reports are based off of), if you have some SQL experience that would be sufficient.Travel: 10% - maybe 1 trip a year (two main locations would be Germany or Mexico) Purpose: Serves as a technical, system integration and IT architecture subject matter expert and works with operations team, IT Architects, Systems Analysts and within the IT infrastructure technical team to design and build IT systems and platforms that exceed functional expectations consistent with the values of a premium global brand. Runs complex technical projects and ensures long-term requirements of systems management and planning. Owns the ultimate responsibility for the technical functionality of IT systems and platforms including servers, client applications, tests, key performance indicators and overall technical quality. Responsibilities:- Leads the planning, implementation and maintenance of IT infrastructure solutions and platforms that perform to defined functional and operational expectations.
- Delivers high-quality IT architectural systems and infrastructure designs with an eye for building the designed systems accounting for existing technical debt, any development bottlenecks and architecture initiatives to drive service delivery, optimize cost and support established business goals. Establishes and maintains technical security architecture, availability, overall performance and maintenance activities.
- Communicates and accurately documents all architectural decisions, plans, goals and functional requirements. Serves as the IT architect and technical lead for service delivery of the scope of the built system by designing, reviewing and overseeing implementation of end-to-end integrated systems, enterprise data and metadata structures, as well as internal systems such as product deployment and licensing.
- Contributes to the definition of the product strategy and BI Target Enterprise Architecture by collaborating with other technical leads, project managers, business relationship managers and business analysts on a project team and across the organization. Identifies and proposes new BI ETA standards (products, master solutions and services).
- Ensures high quality by establishing a baseline and monitors technical metrics (i.e. code coverage, performance, scalability) that report the overall health of newly built IT systems.
- Recommends and facilitates quality improvement efforts. Stays up to date on future innovations, technical trends and applies this to direct future changes. Has knowledge of the solutions available as well as best practices for the business processes. Runs complex projects ensuring they are completed on time and within budget with only general direction from management.
- Serves as an IT project manager for small-medium sized projects overseeing resources assigned, conducts status meetings, and effectively communicates the project status to stakeholders as delegated by the BMW Department Manager (Information Technology). Develops project plans, administers the release management process and ensures that tasks are completed on time and within budget.
- Participates in BMW Group IT projects. Performs other duties as assigned by BMW Group Supervisor.
Education: BS degree (IT field preferred) or the equivalent of 4 years of related experience in Information Technology. Experience:5+ years experience in IT architecture and IT infrastructure components5+ years experience in enterprise systems analysis, systems design and systems integration5+ years experience driving products from concept and ideation through successful launch3+ years working on a team employing standardized project delivery methods (both waterfall and agile)3+ years experience in IT application and/ or infrastructure maintenance3+ years experience in project management