Sr. Specialist DDIT OPS Data, Analytics, DS&AI
About the Role
Roles and responsibilities:
- Design and manage the development of modular, reusable, elegantly designed and maintainable software or solutions that supports the Supply Chain organization as well as other Cross Functional strategic initiatives.
- Participate fit-gap workshops with business providing effort estimates and solutions proposals.
- Develop and maintain the code repositories for which you are responsible and respond rapidly to bug reports or security vulnerability issues.
- Embody and integrate software development best practices.
- Collaborate extensively with your colleagues across Security, Compliance, Engineering, Project Management, Product Management.
- Drive data enablement and building digital products/deliver solutions as per business prioritizations and in alignment with technology architects.
- Contribute towards AI/ML initiatives including Gen AI, Journey towards cloud, data quality improvement, business process simplification and other strategic pillars.
- Ensure delivered solutions adhere to architectural and development standards, best practices, and meet requirements as recommended in the architecture handbook.
- Ensure designed solutions are aligned with Data and Analytics strategy standards and roadmap.
- Status reporting to product owners and IT management.
Essential Requirements:
- 8+ years of data & analytics experience in a professional environment, building applications across platforms.
- 3+ years of experience in delivery management
- 3+ years of experience in customer facing IT roles
- 2+ years of experience in Machine Learning
- 2+ years of experience in SAP BW on HANA and/or S/4 HANA
- 2+ years of experience in cloud platforms
- Strong data engineering fundamentals in data management, data analysis, back-end system design.
- Strong hands-on exposure in Data & Analytics (including predictive and prescriptive analytics) solutions.
Skills:
- Collecting and interpreting requirements as well as building supporting solutions to satisfy business requirements.
- Excellent understanding of Supply Chain business process and KPIs. Grasp on topics such as inventory management, demand forecasting, real-time logistics management, end-to-end supply chain visibility, supply chain optimization, supply chain digital twin would be highly desirable.
- Domain expertise in Pharma industry and/or Healthcare is a big plus.
- Excellent communication, convincing, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent knowledge in Machine Learning, GenAI, Data Lake, Data warehouse, Analytical and Visualization tools (preferably Power BI and Qlik Sense).
- Hands-on experience in machine learning along with real-time analytics would be preferrable.
- Familiar with Agile, Disciplined Agile as well as Waterfall delivery concepts.
- Proficient in using: Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Bitbucket, SAP Solution Manager.
- Familiar with: ERWIN, Data modelling.
- Hands-on experience in: AWS Services, Python, Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, Angular, SAP Analytics (BW on HANA, BW/4HANA, S/4 HANA).
- Strong hands-on exposure in Data and Analytics solutions is must.
- Ability to learn new technologies and functional topics in a very short period.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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