Sitecore Application Solution Engineer

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Sitecore Application Solution Engineer, Madrid

Client: SGS

Location: Madrid, Spain

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Views: 4

Posted: 06.03.2025

Expiry Date: 20.04.2025

Job Description:

The Application Solution Engineer (ASE) plays a crucial role within SGS’s IT team, acting as the technical authority for corporate IT applications. The ASE ensures that software development activities meet SGS standards and industry best practices, with a focus on quality, architecture, and security.

Responsibilities:

• Provide accurate effort estimates, validate third-party estimates, and manage development workloads.
• Leverage technical expertise to ensure all internal and outsourced developments align with SGS and market standards.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team to shape the evolving technical landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a trusted advisor, offering value-added Sitecore solutions to complex business challenges.
• Guide impact assessments on change initiatives affecting current and future technology landscapes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess and refine evolving requirements, ensuring enhancements align with architectural standards.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of the technical roadmap, technology governance, architecture principles, design guidelines, and organizational standards.
• Apply knowledge of SGS’s Enterprise Architecture and Security standards to ensure compliance with technical design quality and vulnerability standards.
• Validate and enrich technical impact assessments to maintain high standards of quality and security.
• Provide technical coordination for deployment activities, ensuring a smooth and compliant rollout.
• Develop or validate technical designs for all application development activities.
• Ensure all developments—whether custom or package-based—meet both technical and operational requirements (security, availability, maintainability, and performance).

Qualifications:

• Expertise in Sitecore Content Search with Solr. Knowledge of Coveo Search for Sitecore is a plus.
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines and Azure Cloud Architecture. Familiarity with Sitecore hosting with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a plus.
• Strong experience with REST & WSL API integration.
• Expertise in defining, controlling, and improving software lifecycle processes.
• Deep understanding of risk management, quality assurance, security, privacy, and safety in software development.
• Broad multi-technology knowledge with a focus on widely used technologies within SGS.
• Familiarity with development methods and tools, particularly Agile, DevOps, and Lean methodologies.
• Experience in system and software lifecycle engineering.
• Strong programming and development skills.