Senior Platform Engineer - SAP BTP (m/f/d)

Adidas is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders (incl. gender identity), ethnic and social backgrounds, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions and beliefs, and those with apparent or non-apparent disabilities*. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees.*We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply and will provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process Senior Platform Engineer - SAP BTP Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer – SAP Business Technology Platform. You will lead technical deliveries with your product teams, be the reference of our SAP BTP Cloud team, and participate in the respective workstreams together with the business counterparts to ensure a successful delivery & enablement. Therefore, he/she assumes responsibility for assigned projects and stream, driving the day-to-day SAP Cloud transformation, and supporting the road to S/4 HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform for standardization and simplification.

Key Responsibilities Specialist advice

• Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s).
• Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives.
• Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
• Share the knowledge, guidelines, and best practices within the SAP community at adidas.

Emerging technology monitoring

• You will be the technical reference of a BTP Center of Excellence, driving initiatives, managing BTP subaccounts, and shaping the roadmap of our product team.
• Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization.
• Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.

Programming/software development

• Architect, develop and implement projects based on proven development methodologies for SAP BTP, and other modern Cloud Development Frameworks on hyperscalers.
• 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.

System design

• Define and ensure internal SAP BTP guidelines to bring consistency.
• 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.

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, to evaluate alternative options.
• Implements physical databa