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Senior Software Engineer
adidas
Gurugram, Haryana
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22 hours ago
Full–time
Date: August 2026 Page 1 of 5 Senior Software Engineer Area: IT - Software Engineering / Development Subsidiary/Country: Germany Location: Herzogenaurach GSMS Grade: M3 Number of Personnel Managed: see most recent Org Chart Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: tbd. TECH Job Family: Software Engineering Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. Key Responsibilities: Specialist advice • Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. • Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s). • Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives. • Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation. Emerging technology monitoring • Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organisation. • Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights. Systems development management • Defines systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives and plans. • Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. • Ensures that senior management is both aware of and able to provide the required resources. Date: August 2026 Page 2 of 5 • Facilitates availability and optimum utilisation of resources. • Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects, ensuring that projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods, and procedures (including secure software development). • Develops road maps to communicate future development activity. Systems design • Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology. • Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. • Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements. • Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders. • Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems. • Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. Software design • Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology. • Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. • Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. • Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems. • Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. • Leads reviews of others’ designs. • Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. • Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Programming/software development • Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. • Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. • Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes. • Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work. Date: August 2026 Page 3 of 5 Database design • Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities. • Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, to evaluate alternative options. • Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability. • Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics. Testing • Accepts responsibility for creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications (such as reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability, and portability). • Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. • Produces test scripts, materials, and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services. • Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources, and tools. • Interprets, executes, and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards. • Records and analyses actions and results and maintains a defect register. • Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary. • Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project. • Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases. • Provides specialist advice to support others. System integration and build • Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing. • Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress. • Defines complex/new integration builds. • Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured. • Designs, performs, and reports results of tests of the integration build. • Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system. • Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools. Date: August 2026 Page 4 of 5 Availability management • Contributes to the availability management process and its operation and performs defined availability management tasks. • Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability, and serviceability. • Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all their agreed performance targets and service levels. • Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures. • Conducts testing of recovery procedures. Release and deployment • Assesses and analyses release components. • Provides input to scheduling. • Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods – manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management. • Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained. Application support • Maintains application support processes, and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures. • Uses application management software and tools to investigate issues, collect performance statistics and create reports. Relationship management • Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan. • Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. • Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. • Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships. If required: People Management / Resource Management: • 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 Date: August 2026 Page 5 of 5 Key Relationships: • Global IT • Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail) • HR Management • Controlling Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: • Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience • Proficient spoken and written command of English • At least 7-year experience in IT • 5 years of experience in relevant area • 2 years of experience in team management • Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer • Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects
Senior Software Engineer
adidas
Gurugram, Haryana
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22 hours ago
Full–time
Date: August 2026 Page 1 of 5 Senior Software Engineer Area: IT - Software Engineering / Development Subsidiary/Country: Germany Location: Herzogenaurach GSMS Grade: M3 Number of Personnel Managed: see most recent Org Chart Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: tbd. TECH Job Family: Software Engineering Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. Key Responsibilities: Specialist advice • Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. • Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s). • Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives. • Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation. Emerging technology monitoring • Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organisation. • Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights. Systems development management • Defines systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives and plans. • Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. • Ensures that senior management is both aware of and able to provide the required resources. Date: August 2026 Page 2 of 5 • Facilitates availability and optimum utilisation of resources. • Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects, ensuring that projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods, and procedures (including secure software development). • Develops road maps to communicate future development activity. Systems design • Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology. • Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. • Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements. • Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders. • Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems. • Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. Software design • Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology. • Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. • Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. • Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems. • Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. • Leads reviews of others’ designs. • Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. • Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Programming/software development • Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. • Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. • Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes. • Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work. Date: August 2026 Page 3 of 5 Database design • Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities. • Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, to evaluate alternative options. • Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability. • Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics. Testing • Accepts responsibility for creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications (such as reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability, and portability). • Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. • Produces test scripts, materials, and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services. • Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources, and tools. • Interprets, executes, and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards. • Records and analyses actions and results and maintains a defect register. • Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary. • Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project. • Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases. • Provides specialist advice to support others. System integration and build • Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing. • Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress. • Defines complex/new integration builds. • Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured. • Designs, performs, and reports results of tests of the integration build. • Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system. • Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools. Date: August 2026 Page 4 of 5 Availability management • Contributes to the availability management process and its operation and performs defined availability management tasks. • Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability, and serviceability. • Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all their agreed performance targets and service levels. • Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures. • Conducts testing of recovery procedures. Release and deployment • Assesses and analyses release components. • Provides input to scheduling. • Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods – manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management. • Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained. Application support • Maintains application support processes, and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures. • Uses application management software and tools to investigate issues, collect performance statistics and create reports. Relationship management • Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan. • Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. • Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. • Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships. If required: People Management / Resource Management: • 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 Date: August 2026 Page 5 of 5 Key Relationships: • Global IT • Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail) • HR Management • Controlling Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: • Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience • Proficient spoken and written command of English • At least 7-year experience in IT • 5 years of experience in relevant area • 2 years of experience in team management • Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer • Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects
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Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior Software Engineer position is now open for candidates interested in the Software Developer Jobs sector. This role in Gurugram offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.
