Functional Engineer Innovate PSRA

Dear Candidate,

Greetings from AkzoNobel (Experts in the proud craft of making paints and coatings since 1792)

We are hiring for the role of Functional Engineer Innovate PSRA at Pune (Hybrid role), requiring skills in Sphera Intelligent Authoring & Sphera Productivity Suite, pls find below additional details as required.

Role Overview - The Functional Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and implementing IT solutions and processes that align with global IT and security standards to meet R&D business needs in the formulation management domain. This domain manages AkzoNobel's formulations and makes sure they are ready for manufacturing.

Their role involves translating business requirements into detailed specifications and implementing those, coordinating with Agile DevOps teams or project management structures, and ensuring high-quality change execution and testing. They actively participate in preparing and executing changes, collaborating with internal partners and external consultants, and may also help resolve urgent incidents and improve business processes.

Key Responsibilities - The Functional Engineer translates business requirements into clear, detailed designs and high-quality change specifications and implements them or oversee implementation. They ensure all standards are followed and solutions are stable, sustainable, and compliant with architectural and security principles.

The Engineer is responsible for testing, including developing test scripts, coordinating business sign-off, and ensuring timely and proper validation of changes and releases. They perform incident management by analyzing issues, conducting root cause analysis, deploying fixes, and ensuring swift resolution of problems. Additionally, the Engineer supports process improvement and project delivery by monitoring performance, collaborating with architects, and managing specific project deliverables for efficient execution.

In-depth experience of regulatory tooling:

• Sphera Intelligent Authoring (IA)
• Creating and maintain data objects like algorithms, forms
• Sphera Productivity Suite (PS)
• Defining rules, exports and requests
• System integration with SAP and other applications such as ASD ProductVision, Labeling
• Participated in IA & PS software upgrades
• Architected the integration and application landscape
• Agile development process using Azure DevOps, git, pipelines and other Azure Services
• Microsoft SQL databases

Additional pro's:

• Experience in applications management: Windows Server, Services, .Net, REST APIs, Events, Scripting such as JS, PowerShell
• Experience with Azure cloud-based solutions
• Experience in modeling notations such as BPMN, ERD, ArchiMate, UML
• Bachelor or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related field study

Functional knowledge

• Knowledge of transport regulations
• Knowledge of product classification and labelling regulations (like GHS)
• Knowledge regulatory compliance requirements
• Familiar with PLM processes
• Cross-application processes

PSRA IA sub-domain specific knowledge

Profile

• Interest in understanding business processes, requirements and functionality and how this can be realized in a software application
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with inquisitive approach
• Willingness to proactively engage with business users to fully understand needs
• Ability to apply critical thinking to find best solutions and identify impacts, risks and dependencies
• Ambition to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools
• A proactive attitude and a passion for software development & delivery
• Ability to coordinate specifications and delivery of work
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills but with ability to work independently

AkzoNobel has a passion for paint. We're experts in the proud craft of making paints and coatings, setting the standard in color and protection since 1792. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. Headquartered in the Netherlands, we are active in over 150 countries and employ around 34,500 talented people who are passionate about delivering the high-performance products and services our customers expect.

Regards,

Team AkzoNobel