Internship - Innovation

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Global Business Services (GBS) designs, builds, and operates consistent end-to-end business solutions for adidas, delivering services in the areas of finance, non-trade procurement, and human resources.  This drives operating efficiency, better customer experience, company agility, and decision-making, and ensures a compliance and control environment.  This is enabled through consistent end-to-end processes, strong, globally consistent governance of solutions and services, state-of-the-art technology and tools, creativity, and continuous improvement.

This position demands technical acumen, creative problem-solving, and a collaborative spirit. You will work under the guidance of senior staff to craft and refine the cross-functional teams process, making a direct impact on the organization's productivity and service quality. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the given solutions in align with enterprise system requirements
• Understand the process requirements and contribute to the full lifecycle of the implementation
• Engage in operational support tasks, addressing and resolving bug-fixes / enhancements
• Uphold best practices in coding, testing, and deployment strategies, under senior guidance
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, such as design documents and specifications. 
• Participate in technical reviews, code walkthroughs, and ensure best practices are maintained
• Collaborate with IT and operations teams to ensure successful deployment and operational integration
• Work with the operational teams to identify and enable them to adopt digital transformation

Key Relationships:

• GBS Operational Excellence Team 
• Tech and Global IT

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong in problem-solving skills.
• Good knowledge in Python programming language
• Knowledge of database technologies and query languages like SQL
• Unsderstanding about collaboration Platforms like Databricks, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, SharePoint and other tools like VS code
• Familiarity with system integration using REST APIs (add-on).
• Understanding of file system storage languages like XML / JSON (add-on).
• Awareness of AI/ML technologies like OCR, Language Translations, Supervised Learning Algorithms (add-on).

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• A scholar in pursuit of a degree in Computer Science, IT or Data Sciences, or a related field
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly