Solution Designer

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SOLUTION DESIGNER

Grade: 5

Hiring Manager: George Giannoulatos

Closing date: 8th August 2021

About Us

At Mercedes-Benz Cars, we’re passionate about what we do. Whether we’re exploring ways to make motoring more sustainable, or pushing the boundaries of technology, innovation underpins everything we do.

How You’ll Play Your Part.

In this role you will be responsible for designing business specific solutions, leveraging the standard services provided by the TAF Partner

You’ll Also

Serves business demands of customer units by designing business specific solutions based on standard services from TAF Partner platform (own solution only for exceptional cases).

Supports the Business Partner Manager in consulting business customer and ITx in technical questions regarding existing services out of the service portfolio

Supervises implementation process from technical prospective

Ensures integrated solutions that satisfies business specific needs

Acts as interface to Technology Domain & Innovation Architects and Portfolio Management to develop the service catalogue

Orchestrates the use /consumption of standard services form TAF Partner platform and other IT related services (topics out of scope TAF Partner)

Analyses and specifies technical requirements for Infrastructure that require profound expert knowledge

About You

Professional skills

• IT Infrastructure design, deployment and management
• Knowledge of cloud computing
• Knowledge of enterprise networking and network security
• Knowledge of data centres (storage, servers, virtualisation and automation)
• Architecture experience in more than one of the following areas : cloud, SaaS, networking, infrastructure, provisioning, security, applications
• Deep understanding of web technology stack (TCP/IP. HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, RESTful APIs)
• Very good knowledge of the conception and implementation of cloud / web and mobile based IT architectures
• In-depth knowledge of architectural principles and design patterns, as well as their implementation in the context of system and software design
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated
• Excellent teamwork, presentation and communication skills as well as an analytical and structured way of working
• Experienced to work in a volatile environment
  

What’s In It For You

We’ll offer you a competitive salary and discretionary bonus structure. We also hope you’ll love our products as much as we do, with access to our colleague car schemes. On top of that, you’ll be able to join our pension scheme and you’ll get a flexible benefit pot that can be used to find the benefits that are right for you.

What’s next?

Once you click apply, we’ll take you through to the Daimler careers portal – this is our parent company site, so don’t worry, you’re in safe hands. Here, you’ll find a short application form to complete.

Please be assured that we’re here to support you throughout the recruitment process and beyond, and reasonable adjustments are available to any candidates who need them. We’re also open to working flexibly and are happy to discuss flexible working options.

Due to UK legislation, we need to let you know that we can only accept applications from those with the right to work in the UK.

Managing your data

We care about your personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with more control and by submitting an application to us, we consider this to be an agreement to process your personal data in support of our recruitment and selection process.

Data categories that we process in relation to your application are the ones that you provided as part of the application process. We process your personal data in relation to the application, in accordance with the legal requirements. Recipients of your personal data within our company are the managers of the specialist unit in charge of filling the position and the responsible colleagues from HR.

Your application data is held within our secure application tracking system called Taleo – you’ll be given access to a candidate zone in this system where you can monitor and manage your application and see status updates. We will communicate with you, by email or phone throughout the recruitment process so that we can keep you updated and inform you of your progress through the recruitment process. You can also seek ‘job alerts’ once you are registered in Taleo and it’s possible your details may be returned in searches we conduct for new positions and we may contact you by email to let you know about them. We limit the storage of your data to the necessary period. Contact us as Mercedes-benz-recruitment@daimler.com for further information.

If you have any questions about any matter relating to data protection or the personal data that we process about you for the purpose of personnel recruiting, please contact the Chief Officer of Corporate Data Protection for the Daimler Group at the following address: Daimler AG, HPC E600, 70546 Stuttgart, data.protection@daimler.com.

Organization

Mercedes-Benz Cars UK Limited