Database Platform Engineer (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.   Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The role builds, operates and improves commonly required capabilities to create and run applications in a modern way.

Supports and consults business IT teams about the usage of these platform(s) and services to focus on delivering value at high speed.

Specialist advice

Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specializations.

Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization’s planning and operations.

Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.

Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.

Emerging technology monitoring

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 engineering

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

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 behavior 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 database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.

Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.

Testing

Reviews requirements and specifications and defines test conditions.

Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting outcomes.

Analyses and reports test activities and results.

Identifies and reports issues and risks associated with own work.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Strong knowledge of database concepts & technologies including enterprise and open-source platforms (RDBMS, NoSQL, specialized databases)

Experience working with database infrastructure in public and/or private cloud environments (AWS, Azure)

Good understanding of core cloud capabilities