Senior Retail Tech Solutions Architect

FashionUnited Group; Bogotá; On-site; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Job summary

adidas Group in Bogotá, Colombia seeks an experienced Technology Consultant to plan, install, and configure software solutions and systems, and to support employees with specialized applications. The role includes advisory duties and collaboration with global IT and business functions.

The candidate should have a minimum of 7 years in IT, multiple years in team leadership, and strong English communication. The position emphasizes managing stakeholder requirements, enabling efficient change, and

Qualifications

• A university degree in IT or Business Administration or related field.
• Proficient spoken and written command of English.
• At least 7 years of experience in IT.
• 5 years of experience in relevant area.
• 2 years of experience in team management.
• Strong understanding of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer.
• Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects.

Responsibilities

• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• 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.
• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
• Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
• Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritization of requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
• Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.
• Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platformspecific versions of one or more software products.
• Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.
• Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.
• Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
• Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.
• Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of candidates.
• Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload, and organizational efficiency.
• Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs.
• Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives.

Skills

IT experience

Team management

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or Business Administration

Job description

adidas Group in Bogotá, Colombia seeks an experienced Technology Consultant to plan, install, and configure software solutions and systems, and to support employees with specialized applications. The role includes advisory duties and collaboration with global IT and business functions.

The candidate should have a minimum of 7 years in IT, multiple years in team leadership, and strong English communication. The position emphasizes managing stakeholder requirements, enabling efficient change, and