EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science (or the equivalent)
• 2 years’ hands-on experience in automation or data management
• Familiarity with SEO best practices for product data is a plus

HARD SKILLS

• Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS)/ Microsoft Azure/ Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience working with anySQL DATABASEsuch as Exasol, Teradata, Vertica, Vectorwise, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, any other SQL database is also acceptable etc.
• Experience working withPROGRAMING LANGUAGESsuch as Python, JavaScript, scala etc.
• Experience working withDISTRIBUTED TECHNOLOGY TOOLS/BIG DATA FRAMEWORKS, including Spark, Hadoop, Storm, Presto, Scala, Python, Databricks, Airflow, Hive, Pig, MapReduce. Derivatives such as pySpark, SparkScala, or SparkSQL are also acceptable
• Experience working inAGILE AND SCRUM DEVELOPMENTprocess
• Working knowledge ofORCHESTRATION TOOLSsuch as Airflow, Jenkins, Oozie, Luigi, Apache Nifi etc.
• Working knowledge ofCONTINUOUS INTEGRATION CI/CD AND AUTOMATED TEST TOOLSsuch as Jenkins, Groovy (for Jenkins scripting), Artifactory, Git, Ansible
• Working knowledge ofBIG DATA REAL TIME STREAMING TOOLS, including Spark, Kinesis, Kafka
• Working knowledge ofAPI INTEGRATIONsuch as REST or SOAP
• Must be familiar with theAGILE METHODOLOGIES
• Scrum or Kanban
• Experience with Docker for building, deploying, and managing containerised applications, and Kubernetes for automating container orchestration, scaling, and management in a cloud-native environment.

SOFT SKILLS

• Strong and concise written and oral communication skills (English)
• Solution-oriented mindset, always challenging the status quo constructively.
• Data driven decision maker with strong spreadsheet skills.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and continuously evolving environment.
• Accountable – takes ownership for successes and failures and translates them into progress.

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION:

Our Global Digital & eCommerce department leverages our digital capabilities beyond eCommerce to create a seamless consumer experience across all channels. Within this organization, we have a dedicated global eCommerce channel team to drive strong and sustainable growth and provide consumer journeys that delight on our .com or flagship adidas app.
While our market eCom teams run the business, our global eCom team enables and supports operational excellence. Functional experts in four subareas work above market and for all markets on Identifying areas that work well, scaling these and improving impact and standardization.
As Assistant Manager Global eCom Automation, you ensure we source, maintain and enrich the product data necessary for our products to be findable and searchable for our consumers on our website and app. Given the scale of this operation across 20+ attributes, 10+ clusters and thousands of product, this role has a strong automation component where you will use SQL databases, programming languages and other technology to improve manual processes.
You may also be asked to work on other automation opportunities within global eCom.