Cloud Applications Engineer

American Honda Motor Company, Inc.; Marysville (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Base Salary

Paid Overtime

Regional Bonus

Medical, Dental, Vision

Paid time off

401K Plan with company match

Job summary

American Honda Motor Company, Inc. seeks a Cloud Applications Engineer to translate complex business needs into scalable SaaS functionality, maintain backend systems, and support multiple corporate domains including contract management and sustainability.

You will learn the full system ecosystem, ensure day-to-day operations run smoothly, and drive process improvements. This onsite role may allow one remote workday weekly with prior approval; the candidate should align with Honda's initiative

Qualifications

• Must have a 4 year college-level Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Technology or a related STEM field of study.
• 5 years’ experience with general software development methodologies, as well as those specific to SaaS Cloud toolsets and platforms including: Hands-on experience with SaaS configuration of technical and functional settings.
• Ability to effectively manage SaaS global attributes, master data, and admin tasks
• Experience with coding and configuring of APIs for data extraction and integration
• Familiarity with middleware frameworks for connecting systems (SAP, Laserfiche, Salesforce, others)
• Understanding procurement, risk management, and compliance workflows
• Ability to configure features to enforce compliance and mitigate risks
• Experience working in Agile teams, using tools like Jira or Azure DevOps
• Strong technical and listening skills
• Good analytical skills along with communication and interpersonal skills, presentation skills.
• Ability to manage time and diverse activities under deadlines while delivering quality results, on time, on budget
• Should be custom and innovation-focused
• Be tenacious and curious
• Be a continuous learner

Responsibilities

• Developing complex business requirements into needed business functionality, along with maintaining, and testing backend systems within the department.
• This role will gain end to end knowledge of the system ecosystem, helping to support day to day activities, and will focus a few systems in the contract management, sustainability, corporate security and records management areas as needed.
• Developing (configuring), maintaining and testing assigned systems, understanding the customers business needs and priorities, and interfaces to support day-to-day operation.
• Achieve goals for your area of responsibility: support the business objectives to deliver value by providing quality IT products and services to Honda business.
• Planning: execute goals by setting milestones and prioritizing activities.
• Collaboration and Cooperation: build collaborative relationships and partnerships.
• Promotion of inclusion and diverse viewpoints within teams.

Skills

Software development

SaaS configuration

APIs data extraction

Agile (Jira/Azure DevOps)

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Time management

Continuous learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Technology or related STEM

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

SAP

Laserfiche

Salesforce

Job description

Minimum work experience:

What Makes a Honda, Is Who Makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

• Cloud Applications Engineer will be an experienced SaaS toolset practitioner.
• The position is responsible for developing complex business requirements into needed business functionality, along with maintaining, and testing backend systems within the department.
• This role will gain end to end knowledge of the system ecosystem, helping to support day to day activities, and will focus a few systems in the contract management, sustainability, corporate security and records management areas as needed.

Key Accountabilities

• Will be responsible for developing (configuring), maintaining and testing assigned systems. This includes becoming very familiar with the customers business needs and priorities. It also includes getting a complete understanding of the internal and external interfaces to be able to support the day-to-day operation of the applications. Also gain an in-depth knowledge of the new technology being deployed in the unit.
• Achieve the goals for your area of responsibility: Support the business objectives to deliver value by providing quality IT products and services to Honda business:
  • Applies continuous improvement methods to resolve quality and other problems in a timely fashion.
  • Continually considers process improvements. Works for incremental improvements in operational efficiency, despite obstacles and challenges.
  • Identifies, evaluates and confirms true root cause of problems. Uses logic and creativity to solve problems. Gathers and analyses sufficient information prior to making decisions, including risk and long-term implications.
  • Identifies areas that require strengthening and brings forward to management.
• Planning:
  • Executes goals by setting clear milestones and prioritizing activities.
  • Takes responsibility and accountability for executing plans.
  • Understands and works to meet milestone and resource requirements.
  • Contributes to team alignment on day-to-day operations and plans in progress.
  • Responds to obstacles by changing approach, process or way of working.
• Collaboration and Cooperation:
  • Considers and responds appropriately to the needs of others in the spirit of building collaborative relationships.
  • Promotes inclusion; reaches out to understand diverse viewpoints and shares ideas.
  • Seeks to build internal or external partnerships to better accomplish goals.

Qualifications, Experience, And Skills

• Minimum educational qualifications:
  • Must have a 4 year college-level Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Technology or a related STEM field of study.
• Minimum work experience:
  • 5 years’ experience with general software development methodologies, as well as those specific to SaaS Cloud toolsets and platforms including:
  • Hands-on experience with SaaS configuration of technical and functional settings.
  • Ability to effectively manage SaaS global attributes, master data, and admin tasks
  • Experience with coding and configuring of APIs for data extraction and integration
  • Familiarity with middleware frameworks for connecting systems (SAP, Laserfiche, Salesforce, others)
  • Understanding procurement, risk management, and compliance workflows
  • Ability to configure features to enforce compliance and mitigate risks
  • Experience working in Agile teams, using tools like Jira or Azure DevOps
  • Strong technical and listening skills
  • Good analytical skills along with communication and interpersonal skills, presentation skills.
  • Ability to manage time and diverse activities under deadlines while delivering quality results, on time, on budget
  • SHould be custom and innovation-focused
  • Be tenacious and curious
  • Be a continuous learner

Workstyle

• This is an onsite job. One remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval.

Visa sponsorship issues

• This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Paid Overtime
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution

Career Growth

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development programs

Additional Offerings

• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.