Senior Data & Process Developer (Logistics)

Company Description

Passion for Data? And for Process Developments? Here you are then!

The Senior Business Process Developer (Logistics) acts as a bridge between business and IT, ensuring holistic system solutions based on strong alignment of content, process and people. This is achieved by transforming business requirements into detailed, system-based concepts as basis for technical implementation. The responsibilities include managing and delivering projects independently, ensuring an end-to-end perspective, highlighting cross functional dependencies, aligning business needs and target state across multiple stakeholders and documenting requirements in the form of Business Scope Statements (BSS), all while maintaining close collaboration with IT to ensure alignment on processes and data flows.

The role also involves managing and coaching resources within the project, managing testing of solutions, ensure quality of technical documentation, and handing over finalised processes and system solutions to data governance teams. Finally, the role requires deep understanding of core processes and topics to provide guidance to support teams on highly complex areas, design comprehensive Key/End user documentation and the design and orchestration of change management initiatives. With ad hoc guidance of senior stakeholders and managers the Senior Developer is ensuring high-quality outcomes aligned with strategy and company goals.

Job Description

CONCEPT & PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

As a member of our team, you'll work on the development of new system solution designs by collecting, analysing and challenging business requirements. With your deep understanding of concepts, end to end processes and technical expertise, you provide an objective and holistic perspective to shape our processes and system landscape towards increased maturity levels. Focusing on data integration and efficiency you avoid isolated solutions and secure an end-to-end approach of all anticipated changes.

You'll act as a translator between business and IT, defining detailed requirements into system-based concepts, which can be used as basis for the technical implementation (BSS - Business Scope Statements). You are responsible for defining scope and independently structure these BSS, and ensure deliverables result in high quality requirements documentation. You’ll need to secure alignment with your management as well as with all cross-functional stakeholders on business and IT side. You'll also contribute to steering meetings with our senior management to get direction on open decisions and questions.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

In this role you'll act as business integration project manager you focus on delivering own projects with high complexity (i.e. scope, size, diverse stakeholders and/or high level of integration) and that carry a high level of ambiguity. Depending on the project’s complexity, urgency, and length, you'll define which project management approach and methodology to apply to achieve the project goals best.

You'll define, structure and manage a project plan and relevant work packages considering e2e process and data flow design. In alignment with our IT you’ll set up realistic project timelines considering resources and overall constraints. You'll track and document project progress and milestones in our project management tools, ensure deadlines are met and monitor implementation budgets.

Mostly independently, you’ll ideate, structure, prepare and run workshops throughout the different project stages, where you’ll be expected to challenge the status quo, facilitate discussions, as well as continuously identify and manage various complex project and process dependencies.

You’ll set the right priorities and communicate pro-actively with all involved parties, identify bottlenecks, find alternatives to remove roadblocks and de-escalate conflicts. In alignment with our portfolio management team, you'll ensure reporting and when needed, escalation to our senior management. For this reason, relevant experience with proven track record in project management, stakeholder management and strong communication skills are vital for this role.

TESTING, DOCUMENTATION & HANDOVER

You'll be responsible to ensure high quality and functional integration of all technical developments by ensuring detailed E2E solution testing by the project team. You will define a comprehensive test planning approach and manage the test execution: scope, progress tracking, bug fixing and backlog. Alignment with business stakeholder and orchestrating user acceptance testing (UAT) is also part of your responsibilities.

After successful testing, you'll introduce and hand over the new process to the data & process governance team. Therefore, you ensure the relevant detailed technical internal doc