Executive Thought Leader Application Management (f/m) on a very Senior Level

• Management of the Application Services department of the IT Division to ensure the strategic development and attainment of divisional and corporate goals. Ensuring customer satisfaction - both internal and external clients and a cohesive working relationship with multiple levels of management.
• Provide recommendations around application management industry-related technology advances and opportunities. Recommend and influence IT investments in specific technologies.
• Ability to indirectly manage a staff of 500+ FTE's and a substantial number of IT contractors in a matrix organization. Build empowering, innovative, results driven and collaborative culture of success in the department.
• Develop and manage the Application Services Portfolio roadmap in conjunction with business demand and market changes in consideration of the TSI application management approaches and new technologies.
• Demonstrate thought leadership around application management and outsourcing which includes understanding, considering and respecting the business side impact of IT decisions and practices.

You have profound knowledge and proven leadership experience with comprehensive experience in technology architecture, engineering, application development and application outsourcing.

You are a current or recent experience leading application management onshore and / or offshore teams across the full IT life cycle, with proven experience and record of leading large outsourcing, transformation and improvement efforts. High degree of competency with IT methodologies such as project management, software development lifecycle and organizational development best practices required. Furthermore you have the following skills and know how:

• Experience and familiarity with agile design concepts and new generation technologies – DevOP’s, IoT/E, Automation, Cloud, Analytics, cloud service and deployment models – Iaas and Paas solutions. A clear understanding of cloud service and deployment models.
• Experience in bringing expert technical leadership to customers and partners while regarding all aspects of AMM offerings.
• Technical expert and evangelist in application outsourcing and application management.
• Conversant with software programming - In Java, C#, GO, Scala, Node.JS, Ruby, Groovy, and/or Python (not just scripting) and web and mobile technologies across multiple technology platforms, with solid understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (New Relic, Cacti, Graphite, Logstash, Nagios, Ganglia, Splunk, VMware vCOPS, Hyperic etc.) and experience using and/or developing on a Windows/Unix/Linux platform.
• Experience in customer facing datacenter architecture, delivery and operational services in Cloud IaaS environments such as VMware, Azure, AWS, or OpenStack.
• Proven experience with PaaS offerings such as Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, or similar; integration build process using Hudson and/or Jenkins build tools.

   

We are looking for individuals who are enthusiastic, self-starter with a charismatic personality. Ability to see and present 'the big picture' and offer solutions to make it better. Who maintain deep hands-on technical knowledge of application infrastructure and architectures of competitive PaaS offerings and solutions. You need to have effective communication, listening, and presenting skills as well as customer focus and a strong desire to work in the field an travel frequently around the globe. We want you to evangelize the value of T-Systems solutions in customer architectures and deployments. With work-life@telekom Deutsche Telekom fosters the compatibility of work and private life. We offer advanced work-time models, child care and health programs. This allows you to realize your full career potential while living a balanced life. You´re interested and you fulfil the profile? Great! Please apply by providing application letter, CV, references, preferred work location and expected compensation to us.