IS Technical Lead

Nissan Motor Corporation•Franklin, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Technical Lead role at Nissan's Franklin, TN Americas’ Headquarters combines responsibilities of a business/technology analyst and a technical/process lead. This role requires expertise in specific technologies, solutions, and/or business applications, acting as an internal consultant to investigate processes, technology, cost, and strategy. The Technical Lead identifies options for improving and innovating the business using Information Systems and Technology. They will work with business users in the Contest and Incentive Management team to define IS needs and translate them into requirements for technology teams. The role involves coordinating and overseeing application development, maintenance, and production support by multiple IT vendors, and serving as a liaison between business and technical teams. The Technical Lead will also act as a functional subject matter expert for the maintenance and enhancement of the Vehicle Incentive Management System product, with a focus on sales audit functions, and will review and approve analyses and solutions from IT vendors. The position requires strong analytical, technical, managerial, and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate technical systematic issues to management and peers. The individual will work independently with business users to define concepts, support business users in creating business cases by defining system needs and estimating high-level costs and resource requirements, and challenge assumptions where necessary. They will also support application development within a product team following agile-scrum processes, including application testing, and lead troubleshooting for critical application downtime or functionality loss. The role demands the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously and execute work independently, escalating to management when appropriate. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential for interacting professionally with diverse groups, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Min 6+ Years overall IS/IT experience
At least 5 years application development and maintenance experience
At least 2 years experience in working with third party/external vendors
Experience as a functional expert for J2EE/Java based applications
Working knowledge of interface with external systems
Basic knowledge of Project Management methods, tools, and application development process
Skills to read, understand, interpret, and communicate technical systematic issues effectively to management and peers
Analytical skills
Technical skills
Managerial skills
Interpersonal skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts

Nice To Haves

Prior experience working with offshore personnel
AWS cloud experience
Interface with mainframe system experience
Business process knowledge of retail sales process and dealer sales process
Technical Experience: Informatica PowerCenter/IICS ETLs
Technical Experience: Business Objects – Reports/Universes
Technical Experience: Tableau
Technical Experience: Power BI
Technical Experience: Data Model side Erwin/Data Architect
Technical Experience: JAVA
Technical Experience: Angular
Technical Experience: AWS Cloud

Responsibilities

Maintain expertise in specific technologies, technology solutions, and/or business applications
Act as an internal consultant responsible for investigating processes, technology, cost, and strategy
Identify options for improving and innovating the business with the use of Information Systems and Technology
Work with business users in the Contest and Incentive Management business team, helping define their Information Systems needs
Translate Information Systems needs into requirements for delivery by technology teams
Coordinate and provide oversight for application development, maintenance, and production support performed by multiple IT vendors
Act as a liaison between business and technical teams
Act as functional subject matter expert for maintenance and enhancement of Vehicle Incentive Management System product, with specific focus on sales audit functions
Review and approve analysis and solution presented by technical teams from IT vendors
Read, understand, interpret, and communicate technical systematic issues effectively to management and peers
Work independently with business users to define concepts under general direction of manager
Support the business users in creating business cases by defining their system needs and by estimating appropriate high-level costs and resource requirements
Challenge business users on their assumptions and proposed execution plan where necessary
Support application development by being part of a product team and following agile-scrum processes to create deliverables assigned to Business Analysts including application testing
Provide oversight and lead troubleshooting as required to restore critical application downtime or functionality loss caused by various issues like data interface gaps, configuration gaps or user errors
Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously and be able to manage priorities
Execute work independently, escalating to management for support when appropriate