Position: Senior Automotive Advisor, SW Excellence (Germany)
Company: Luxoft
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Currently, we seek to grow an Automotive Advisory, empowering customers to create capabilities akin to tech & SW companies.

Project Description:
Currently, we seek to grow an Automotive Advisory, empowering customers to create capabilities akin to tech & SW companies. We are looking for a Senior Automotive Advisor, who will drive our Advisory vision, as is to combine Luxoft agile & automotive SW excellence from in-vehicle to cloud, CI/CD & DevOps, connectivity & data, architecture & platforms, UI/UX as well as operational expertise and business intelligence into a cross-domain and holistic approach covering the complete digital lifecycle.

Luxoft is happy to receive applications from self-motivated, consultative-thinking, and entrepreneurial candidates with a strong interest in shaping the future of mobility and making a transformative impact on the automotive industry.
Responsibilities:
• Develop quality relationships and trusted advisor status with key client influencers and decision makers to promote transformative growth in the automotive industry
• Advise clients on technology strategies and business outcomes with a multi-year horizon focused on accelerating digital transformation, from client proposal definition to crossing the chasm in project execution
o Maturity assessment, benchmarking of client technologies, processes, business models & revenue streams vs industry best practices
o Recommendations & transformation roadmaps for architectures, business & operating models, efficiency, optimization, and scaling
o Extension, adaptation, stabilization, and operationalization the transformation and scale-out from the as-it state to the to-be state
• Constantly learn and demonstrate thought leadership, innovate on our current thinking, and develop new approaches addressing emerging customer needs
• Maintain cross-functional alignment with multiple Luxoft Engineering disciplines and Solutions offerings, drive towards a successful client outcome
• Technology advisory focusing on agile software development and deployment life cycle, containerization, and DevOps practices with on supportability, scale out
• Build proposals and transformation roadmaps for Digital Lifecycle Management, SW Factory and automotive SW Excellence
• Deliver status quo analysis & maturity assessments, supporting identification and optimization of end-to-end process transformation opportunities and strategic profit improvement initiatives
• Provide recommendations in process re-engineering and implementation of a process, technology, business, and organizational change
• Best practice sharing, KPI definition, benchmarking industry trends
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Managerial Skills
o 5+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience, with proven ability to build relationships with technology specialists and senior leaders
o Experience organizing small (3-7) teams
o Strong track record of advising clients on technologies, processes, methods, tools, and operating models
Technology & Industry Expertise
• Advanced understanding of modern agile software development and deployment life cycle, containerization, and DevOps practices
• Experience in developing or operating real-world production IT systems or digital product rollouts
• Experience in the development or operations domain with a focus on automation excellence, quality assurance, configuration management, testing
• Solid understanding of the concepts and principles behind DevOps, CI/CD, Agile, lean, security, Infrastructure as a Service, etc.
• Knowledge of validation, verification, PMT traceability, including relevant automotive standards such as ASPICE, ISO 26262
• Solid understanding of the state-of-the-art of Cloud technologies and the trends that facilitate further extension and evolution of this market
• Capable of providing technology recommendations in architecture, specifically in designing, deploying, operating, and supporting high-performance, highly available services connecting in-car software and automotive back-ends through OTA
• Personal & Communication Skills
o Language: Fluent in English and regional language
o Strong customer focus, assertiveness, and precise method of operation
o Highly structured and result oriented way of working
o Ability to understand and analyze complex customer challenges
o Solution oriented, getting things done attitude
o Entrepreneurial team player with a global mindset
o Senior-Level communication skills / strong networker
o Solid experience in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical senior leaders, both verbally and in written form
• Education
o Engineering degree with an automotive / software / data-science focus
o PhD / MBA a plus
Nice-to-Have Skills:.
Languages:
English: C2 Proficient