IT Consultant Engineering Applications OESL

Leça do Balio , Portugal
full-time

AI overview

Be a pivotal IT Consultant for Engineering Applications, optimizing key tools like CAD and CAE while ensuring compliance and high availability across global engineering teams.

Are you passionate about delivering powerful IT services that keep engineering teams moving at full speed? Join our Business Application Product Team and help ensure global access to cutting-edge engineering applications—supporting innovation, collaboration, and excellence across OESL’s R&D landscape.

Your Impact

As the IT Consultant for Engineering Applications, you’ll be responsible for the seamless operation, maintenance, and optimization of key engineering tools such as CAD, CAE, HPC, and data exchange platforms. Working closely with external providers and internal stakeholders, you’ll align service delivery with strategic IT goals—empowering engineering teams across time zones with high availability, compliance, and performance.

What You’ll Do:

  • Act as a trusted IT partner for the R&D department and key users, aligning business needs with application capabilities.

  • Coordinate the provisioning and maintenance of global engineering applications, ensuring minimal downtime and proper license usage.

  • Facilitate onboarding, infrastructure setup, and user access in collaboration with internal IT and external providers.

  • Evaluate application improvements, propose workflow enhancements, and support roadmap planning to maximize value and innovation.

  • Ensure adherence to ITIL, Agile, and corporate project management standards, including compliance with data security and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR).

  • Oversee daily service delivery in partnership with external providers, manage SLAs and KPIs, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

  • Support contract renewals, service transitions, and performance escalations to meet global multi-time-zone requirements.

  • Promote a culture of ownership, quality, and process-orientation within engineering IT services.

  • Inspire colleagues to challenge the status quo and contribute to sustainable, future-ready solutions.

To succeed in this role, you bring advanced expertise across several critical domains:

  • Engineering Applications (e.g., CAD, CAE, HPC, Data Exchange): Deep understanding of engineering IT ecosystems and user needs in R&D environments.

  • Global Service Delivery & Provider Management: Experience managing international vendor relationships and ensuring high service quality.

  • Project Management in IT: Skilled in coordinating IT projects, tool deployments, and upgrades in complex environments.

  • IT Service Management: Proficient in ITIL practices and Agile/Waterfall methodologies to ensure structured service delivery.

  • Vendor & Contract Management: Able to lead contract discussions, track performance, and manage cost-effective external service engagements.

  • Risk & Compliance: Strong focus on information security, data privacy, and regulatory alignment in IT operations.

What we offer:

  • Compensation package: 14th salaries plus performance bonus
  • Health Insurance and Life Insurance;
  • Lunch Allowance: in line with local regulation
  • Flexibility - Flexible schedule, hybrid work.
  • Home-Office - Employees received 1,00€ net for each Home-Office day, paid monthly.
  • Vacation days - 22 days per year + 3 extra days the following year (considering absenteeism). Seniority days added starting from 3 years in the company.

Ready to drive with Continental? Take the first step and fill in the online application.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible schedule, hybrid work.
  • Health Insurance: Health Insurance and Life Insurance;
  • Home Office Stipend: Employees received 1,00€ net for each Home-Office day, paid monthly.
  • Lunch Allowance: Lunch Allowance: in line with local regulation
  • Paid Time Off: 22 days per year + 3 extra days the following year (considering absenteeism). Seniority days added starting from 3 years in the company.

Continental desarrolla tecnologías y servicios vanguardistas para la movilidad sostenible e interconectada de personas y bienes. Fundada en 1871, la empresa de tecnología ofrece soluciones seguras, eficientes, inteligentes y asequibles para vehículos, máquinas, tráfico y transporte. En 2021, Continental generó ventas por 33 800 millones de euros y actualmente emplea a más de 190 000 personas en 58 países y mercados. El 8 de octubre de 2021, la empresa celebró su 150 aniversario.El sector del grupo Automotive incluye tecnologías para sistemas de seguridad pasiva, frenos, chasis, movimiento y control de movimiento. La cartera también cuenta con soluciones innovadoras para la conducción asistida y automatizada, tecnologías de visualización y operación, soluciones de audio y cámara para el interior del vehículo, así como con tecnología inteligente de información y comunicación para los servicios de movilidad de operadores de flotas y fabricantes de vehículos comerciales. La gama de productos y servicios se completa con actividades integrales relacionadas con tecnologías de conectividad, electrónica de vehículos y computadoras de alto rendimiento.

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