Digital Technology Specialist
vakansiya — 2024

Position summary:

A Digital Technology Specialist maintains digital and technology strategies through technology leadership, investigating, identifying, and implementing technological strategic solutions. They will direct digital technology provision by studying organisation goals, strategies, and practices and delivering and supporting strategic plans for implementing digital technologies. They are confident, competent, and capable individuals able to apply leadership and change management skills to operate in a range of digital and technology related specialist roles.

Responsibilities:

• Assess an organisation’s technology operations and their continued capability to deliver the organisations technology-based products and services, through defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing digital technologies and revising as required.
• Perform strategic analysis of organisational information systems, their structure and current effectiveness, to make systems rationalisation, systems integration, and other improvement proposals.
• Engage with business units to produce technical solution proposals for different technology domains such as infrastructure, cloud, application, and storage platforms aligned with business demand.
• Develop and implement technology lifecycle roadmaps, assessing different technical options and developing technology strategies aligned with business priorities and agreeing the case for change from senior management.
• Plan and manage technology change delivery and migration programmes, ensuring successful implementation of the chosen technology, smooth delivery of related consultancy services to clients and verifying application results using audits.
• Analyse and assess complex digital business problems through collecting and reviewing business data and formulating technology-based design solutions.
• Identify, document, review and design complex IT enabled business processes that define a set of activities that will accomplish specific organisational goals and provides a systematic approach to improving those processes.
• Design and develop technology roadmaps, implementation strategies and transformation plans focused on digital technologies to achieve improved productivity, functionality and end user experience in an area of technology specialism.
• Deliver workplace transformations through planning and implementing technology-based business change programmes including setting objectives, priorities and responsibilities with others in an area of technology specialism.
• Negotiate and agree digital and technology specialism delivery budgets with those with decision-making responsibility.
• Develop and deliver management level presentations which resonate with senior stakeholders, both business and technical.
• Professionally present digital and technology solution specialism plans and solutions in a wellstructured business report.
• Demonstrate self-direction and originality in solving problems, and act autonomously in planning and implementing digital and technology solutions specialist tasks at a professional level.
• Be competent at negotiating and closing techniques in a range of interactions and engagements, both with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Evaluate the significance of human factors to leadership in the effective implementation and management of technology enabled business processes.
• Develop own leadership style and professional values that contributes to building high performing teams.
• Apply broader technical knowledge combined with an understanding of the business context, and how it is changing, to deliver to the company’s business strategy.
• Compliance with the strategies of the brands we represent and constant communication with the Global Digital Technology team.
• Demonstrate effective technology leadership and change management skills for managing technology driven change and continuous improvement.
• Create and implement innovative technological strategies to support the development of new products, processes and services that align with the company’s business strategy and develop and communicate compelling business proposals to support these.
• Identify and select the business data that needs to be collected and transitioned from a range of data systems; acquire, manage and process complex data sets, including large scale and realtime data.
• Coordinate all tasks through a Jira-based ticket management system, plan efforts for tasks under his/her control, direct other tasks to the appropriate teammates and monitor progress, identify possible delay risks and alert the process owner.
• Conduct high-quality complex investigations, employing a range of analytical software, statistical modelling & machine learning techniques to make data driven decisions solve live commercial problems.

Required qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related fields, or at least two, but often five or more years of relevant experience. Specifically, related fields include UI/UX design, organizational IT, website management, and content writing.
• Knowledge of commonly used programming languages such as Java, C/C++, and SQL
• Familiarity with software development frameworks such as Agile and DevOps
• Familiarity with emerging trends in IT and computer science, such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence
• Knowledge of SAP systems and processes is preferred
• Blockchain and cybersecurity skills
• Data analysis and visualization skills, capable of determining insights.
• Candidates should exhibit creative problem-solving, must be able to work well with people and lead a team across departments, from senior management to front-line staff.
• Candidates must be able to address unexpected challenges concerning the management of people and technology. This includes experience in change management.
• A digital transformation specialist will often need to take a lead role, motivating and inspiring others to adopt new ways of working.
• Being able to plan and deliver complex projects on time and within budget is essential.
• As digital transformations can be complex and unpredictable, being able to troubleshoot and solve problems quickly is vital.
• The ability to think ahead and anticipate future challenges is another key skill
• The ideal candidate will need proactivity and enthusiasm for work in a fast moving and dynamic environment.
• The ability to build relationships with clients and internal departments.
• Able to prioritize work, delegate, and meet deadlines.
• Must be a self-started and highly motivated.
• Excellent research, problem-solving, and time management skills; attention to detail.
• High level of accuracy, efficiency, and accountability.
• Fluency in written and oral Azerbaijani and English, Russian and Turkish is preferred.
• Advanced level of Microsoft Office proficiency is preferred.
• Local candidates strongly preferred.

If you are interested in this open vacancy, please email your resume preferably in Word or PDF format with a letter of interest specifying suitability for the position and minimum expected salary specifying the Job Title in the subject line or call +99 (412) 565 26 38 for further information. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applications close on February 15, 2023.