BMW is focusing the development of automated driving (AD) with great effort. In order to develop and test highly intelligent software for environmental perception, maneuver planning and acting, which finally enables the self-driving capability of an autonomous car, a huge amount of environmental sensor data needs to be collected, hosted and processed in an AD Platform (ADP NEXT). The processing covers e.g. broad data analytics, reprocessing and KPI evaluation, simulation, virtual endurance run, etc.

The BMW AD team in China is fully integrated into the global network of highly educated experts of different domains.

In this job you will play a crucial role at the interfaces between BMW AD SW development and IT teams as well as Chinese internet tech-companies and high-tech AD suppliers.

Responsibilities：

• Design, deployment and improvement of distributed, big data systems targeting automated driving applications for a cloud environment
• Tasking the development and improvement of off-board backend big data applications and related communication protocols targeting automated driving use cases
• Management and structuring of requirements provided by BMW's AD development teams regarding the big data AD Platform
• Steering of BMW China AD development teams and external cooperation partners (big Chinese Tech-Player) regarding data driven development
• Review, monitor and report the status of own project
• Support in the budget planning process for the organization unit
• Research, recommend, design and develop our Big Data Architecture. Ensures system, technical and product architectures are aligned with China data platform strategy

Qualifications：

• Master/Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent
• Good communication skills, good language skills in English (written and oral); German language skills optional.
• Industry experience with developing and managing enterprise workloads on Cloud Service Provider such as AWS, Alibaba Cloud or similar.
• Experience in creating and managing production scale Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS, Alibaba ACK or similar.
• Knowledge and experience in monitoring and alerting cluster using open source monitoring tools like Opensearch, Grafana, Prometheus or similar
• Familiar with CI/CD tools, like Jenkins, TerraForm, and Ansible.
• Knowledge and experience in Relational Databases like PostgreSQL, mySQL, MariaDB, etc.
• Experience with scheduling tools is a plus, like Airflow and Argos preferred.
• Experience in building and maintaining data quality standards and processes
• Strong background working with Linux/UNIX environments including shell scripting.
• Experience with development of big data or backend applications. Familiar with at least one of programming language of Java/Python/Scala.
• Experience with other NoSQL databases is a plus, like Elasticsearch and MongoDB preferred
• Solid communication skills with ability to communicate sophisticated technical concepts and align on decisions with global and China local partners
• Passion to stay on top of the latest happenings in the tech world and an attitude to discuss and bring those into play

Experience：

• Must have strong hands-on experience in cloud native design and development, be able to build scalable and complex applications for different customers
• Strong experience on Network configurations.
• Strong background working with Linux/UNIX environments including scripting experience in Python or (Bash) Shell.
• Experience with scheduling tools is a plus, like Airflow and Argos preferred
• Experience in building and maintaining data quality standards and processes
• Strong agile/scrum development experience
• Experience of software development in Automotive industries is a plus (not strictly required).