Head of IT & Infrastructure (m/f/d)

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Chemovator is the business incubator of BASF. We provide a protected space to build commercial ventures from unconventional ideas. Our Venture Teams take full ownership of their idea, creatively explore their business, learn fast and pivot beyond corporate boundaries.

Venture Team
Our venture team Forecasty.AI envision to democratize AI-based forecasting in B2B industry by enabling firms to take faster and smarter business decisions with the state-of-the-art AI. In order to achieve this vision, Forecasty.AI team has developed two differentiated products. First product, Business Desk aims at improving the business decisions across marketing, finance and procurement via a self-service AI based forecasting product. Second product, Commodity Desk improves business decisions of purchasing managers of – commodities (e.g., metals, mining, chemicals) with ready to use price forecasts along with market insights.

Based in Mannheim (Germany), we are an ambitious team that aims to build scalable and high-growth digital B2B AI First SaaS that will shape the future of B2B industry. Find more information on the Venture at our homepage Forecasty.AI.

We are looking for a motivated and highly self-driven product development and technology enthusiast who can lead the team and can manage Product development life cycle - including infrastructure Setup, best security practice, API Design, CI/CD process. Are you the right one to start together with us our Chemovator Journey?

Your role

• You lead the Forecasty.AI product development & IT team to build state-of-the-art digital product with advanced AI/ML models to make forecasting easy, accurate & accessible for business users & analysts
• You understand IT requirement & design scalable cloud solution to fulfill the product requirements
• You develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility
• You define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• You communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to development team
• You oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design
• You ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility
• You design and build scalable infrastructure which will host end user application and AI ML models as well as API, Database, AI workflow orchestration platform to accommodate multiple users.

Your offer

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Engineering or any other related technical disciplines
• You already have at least 5 years of work experience in the field of AI/ML integration, API development, Database design, DevOps or other related areas
• You have acquired deep knowledge in modern scalable & production-ready microservices
• You are well versed with cloud architecture best practices preferably MS-Azure
• You have a very good knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• You have strong knowledge in Kubernetes Cluster setup and management
• You have a good understanding of client-side application frameworks and their communication process with backend APIs
• You have a good understanding of software quality assurance principles & security
• Your English communication skills are excellent, and you present your results capably and vividly to the end user
• You have a true startup mindset who is creative, customer-centric, hands-on, data-driven and collaborative team player thriving in a flat start-up environment
• You have a technical mindset with great attention to detail
• You describe yourself as a generalist who is willing to take up tasks outside your comfort zone

Bonus:

• You have strong security knowledge of Networks, Load Balancing, Firewall Rules & Certificates to work in coordination with IT Network Engineering
• You have experience in building and scaling up cloud infrastructure in a B2B SaaS environment

We offer

• A steady interaction and dialogue with experienced experts from two worlds – corporate BASF and our wide external network
• Use the mass of experiences of your colleagues and our Entrepreneurs in Residence to develop yourself and your Venture further
• Flexible working time and mobile work as well as usual perks of a company in the startup environment, e.g. free drinks and an inspiring atmosphere within an unconventional location in Mannheim
• A competitive salary and the opportunity to be part of the growing Venture Team Forecasty.AI
• Note : The initial contract will be valid until January 2022, as we are currently raising the investment in the next 6 months. Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship.

Are you interested?
Nothing is set in stone yet, so your input is highly welcome. Let’s apply now! We are looking forward to hearing from you! If you have further question for us please contact with Sudhir Patil (sudhir.patil@chemovator.com). We are looking forward to hearing from you!