Automation & Data Analytics Developer

The Mercedes AMG-PETRONAS Formula One Team

Location: Brackley

Salary: Competitive

Closing Date: 06.12.2024

Closing in: 3 days

At the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, a group of passionate and determined people work to design, develop, manufacture and race the cars driven by seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton and Grand Prix winner George Russell.

Whether working in our Operations, Technical, Race or Business Support functions, we are all in and aspire to build the greatest team in the history of our sport.

Every individual plays their part. No stone is left unturned in the chase for every tenth of a second. The history of our sport is long and rich, and we are continuing our journey with renewed effort year on year. Record books remember the names of a few, but history is written by the many.

About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced developer to join our IT department and deliver modern digital solutions to business automation and dashboarding requests. The successful candidate will be part of a growing centre of competency delivering business process automation and data analytics solutions. This role provides the opportunity to enable transformational change across many business functions, by promoting operational excellence through automation development and helping the business to gain insights from their data.

Key Accountabilities (Duties):
- Analyse automation and reporting requirements expressed by diverse business users.
- Collaborate with colleagues from the Architecture and the wider IT teams to define solutions.
- Use tools and methodologies to create representations for process orchestrations, functions, and user interfaces when user interactions are needed.
- Develop API, services or endpoints when missing from systems involved in these integrations.
- Develop PowerBI reports and dashboards embedding effective visualisations.
- Ensure attention to deployment, performance, and maintainability.
- Embrace the continuous integration process and platform, and the observability principles.
- Report on progress to project managers and/or business requestors.
- Ensure developments meet all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
- Provide 1st line support to users or 2nd line expertise to the Tech Support team, troubleshooting and fixing complex issues.

Candidate Profile

Essential:
- Experience in software development and coding in various object-oriented languages (C#, Java, etc.).
- Experience in UI/UX design.
- Experience in developing Microsoft Power Platform solutions (PowerAutomate, PowerApps, PowerBI).
- Knowledge of Camunda, Automation Anywhere RPA, Python, Kafka.
- Familiarity with Spring Boot, HTML/CSS, REST, JavaScript (React.js), Azure DevOps & pipelines.
- Minimum BSc/BA in computer science, engineering, or relevant field (MSc/MA preferred).
- Demonstrable experience working in a comparable role in an enterprise environment.
- Self-motivated individual with a keen eye for detail, taking great pride in getting users satisfied.
- Excellent planning, communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Appetite and ability to work in a fast paced, high frequency change environment.
- Organised, flexible, proactive and results-oriented.

Desirable
- Knowledge of BPMN and business process modelling.
- Experience developing APIs and event-driven solutions.
- Experience deploying applications in Kubernetes.
- Understanding of software quality assurance principles, and of the Agile methodology.

Benefits:

Our riverside campus is powered by 100% renewably sourced energy and features an on-site gym and exercise studio, subsidised restaurant and on-site parking with EV chargers available.

We offer a competitive and attractive package of benefits including a generous bonus scheme, Mercedes car lease scheme, private medical cover, life assurance and 25 days holiday. We pride ourselves on our family-friendly environment, employee well-being programme and offer flexible working opportunities.

Why us:

At the heart of our performance are our people. Every member of our team has a voice and plays their part in contributing to our successes on and off the racetrack. We take pride in creating an innovative, collaborative and high-performance culture where all of our team members are respected, empowered and valued.

Through our Accelerate 25 programme, we are continuously working to make our team even more diverse and inclusive. Whatever your background, we believe that you will find working with us rewarding and enriching.

Ref: REQ-240550