Company Description
SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of over 100,000 dedicated professionals. With more than 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance and sustainability.
Our brand promise – “when you need to be sure” – underscores our commitment to trust, integrity and reliability, enabling businesses to thrive with confidence. We proudly deliver our expert services through the SGS name and a portfolio of trusted specialized brands, including Applied Technical Services, Brightsight, Bluesign and Nutrasource.
Job Description
The Application Solution Engineer is responsible for end to end process design alignment within SGS for our Corp IT applications. Serving as the top-level techno-functional expert by helping the business on high-level specifications creation and anticipating problems of systems functionality, providing guidance and advisory regarding business requirements mappings.
The ASE plays a key role in ensuring standardized fit for purpose solutions within SGS for our Corp IT applications. Overseeing that the software development activities are carried out in accordance with SGS and best practice market standards. Executes the review of the application development activities and ensures that the related deliverables follow the appropriate quality, architecture and security rules and guidelines, overseeing the overall quality and fitness of the final products.
The ASE is responsible for providing effort estimates, validating 3rd party estimates and overseeing the activities of the development estimation process, validating and the required workload for the different phases of developments.
With your technical expertise and following market best practices, you will ensure that the technical designs of software developments are up to market & SGS standards, whether done internally or by a third party, working closely with the enterprise architecture department at SGS.
Responsibilities
- Provide Global Solution Design leadership in the assigned processes.
- Review techno-functional documents, frameworks and strategies to meet the business and application requirements.
- Review data models and processes, working proactively with rest of the teams, in order to optimize architecture and to evaluate the performance and reliability of designs.
- Collaborate with requirements creation, use cases and models that map business strategy and needs.
- Consult with Global Process Owners, Business leaders and IT business representatives to ensure understanding of requirements and their alignment to future strategic direction of the business/function.
- Proactively collaborates with implementation teams in coordination with other architects on the setup of processes to fulfil the agreed requirements.
- Know in detail the reference standards & best practices defined by Enterprise Architecture and Security SGS departments, to ensure technical design quality and vulnerability compliance.
- Validate and enrich technical impact assessments.
- Ensure Technical coordination for deployment activities.
- Develop and/or validate technical design for all application development activities.
- Ensures developments meet both the technical requirements as well as the operations requirements (such as security, availability, maintainability, and performance), for custom developed applications as well as standard package-based solutions and legacy applications
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and/or master’s with relevant IT or Computer science background.
- Relevant experience managing requirements through the entire delivery and operational life cycle.
- Must have 5+ years of extensive knowledge of Oracle eBusiness Suite (on-prem) development tools and technical stack are a must (Oracle PL/SQL, APEX, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle BI Publisher, Oracle Applications Framework, Web ADI, Open Interfaces, Oracle XML Gateway, Integrated SOA Gateway and Oracle Workflow).
- Experience in Oracle eBusiness Suite Financials modules and Supply Chain & Manufacturing is a plus
- Experience in Oracle ERP Cloud rollout, integrations and extensions is certainly an added value
Required Skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to build trust, respect and confidentiality.
- Good analytical and problem solving skills.
- Proactive, able to take decisions and act independently.
- Ability and willingness to continuously learn and acquire new skills and competencies.
- Defining, controlling, and improving software life cycle processes.
- Risk management, quality, security, privacy and safety.
- Broad multi-technology knowledge.
- Experience with the tool set of development methodologies (Agile, DevOps, Lean) • System and software life cycle engineering.
Additional Information
Why join SGS?
- Opportunity to work with a global leader in inspection, verification, testing, and certification.
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
Join Us: At SGS, we are dedicated to fostering an open, friendly, and supportive culture that thrives on teamwork. We value diversity and provide endless opportunities to learn, grow your expertise, and fulfill your potential.