Engineering Manager

Maersk is a global leader in container logistics, responsible for moving 20% of global trade every year. With a diverse team of over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, we strive to connect and simplify global trade, enabling our customers to grow and thrive.

We aim to be the global integrator of logistics, connecting and simplifying customers' supply chains through cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our team and lead the development of our E-Commerce Logistics (ECL) platform. As a key member of our Fulfilled by Maersk (FbM) organization, you will be responsible for managing scrum teams, architecting, designing, and implementing new ECL capabilities and enhancing existing ones.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide technical leadership and guidance to scrum teams through the entire application life cycle, including research, design, development, testing, and deployment.
2. Push the envelope in adopting new technologies and best design practices to ensure our products are highly usable and scalable.
3. Develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-native solutions and maintain high levels of quality.
4. Navigate through ambiguities and deliver quickly, ensuring builds are kept green and the code management strategy is closely followed.
5. Provide technical leadership to globally distributed team members, being a team player and guiding engineers through successful agile development projects in a DevOps setting.
6. Lead design and code reviews with a major focus on best user experience, performance, scalability, and future expansion.
7. Work directly with peer R&D groups, IT teams, and Business Operations teams to align on the needs of the products and operations.
8. Provide design validation on key technologies in API development and ensure builds are kept green.
9. Raise capability and standards within the team, pairing on tasks, peer reviewing team members' code, and providing constructive feedback for improvement.
10. Proactively contribute to continual improvements within the team through active participation in retrospectives and engagement with cross-team best-practice communities.
11. Build applications, integrations within internal or customer applications, and collaborate with project team members and cross-functional product teams to design and implement customs integration capabilities for Maersk global applications.
12. Advisory to Product Owners to identify and manage risks, debt, issues, and opportunities for technical improvement.
13. Support the recruitment of developers across the department and provide technical support during cut-over activities.
14. Provide continuous improvement suggestions in internal code frameworks, best practices, and guidelines.
15. Work with other Engineering Managers to drive platform and technology strategy to truly enable DevOps and target continuous release.
16. Responsible for defining the development methodology, ensuring adoption across the engineering team and SCRUM teams.
17. Stay on top of development activities across multiple squads while communicating status and progress back to the Product Owner and related stakeholders.
18. Lead a team of highly motivated engineers towards building and delivering solutions that support central business outcomes.
19. Accountable for the product-specific development, construction, test, and maintenance of delivered solutions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Minimum 12+ years of hands-on enterprise software development experience in building cloud-native, highly scalable, high-performant, highly reliable, and highly secure solutions, preferably in a product development environment.
• 6+ years of managing scrum teams (one or more scrum teams) and can complement and architect on this role.
• Fundamental experience with open-source technology.
• Skilled stakeholder and people manager with the ability to communicate complex messages, constructively challenge Product Owners and related stakeholders.
• Ability to guide engineers through successful agile development projects in a DevOps setting, including testing and deployment.
• Setting and leading high-performing skilled and impactful teams.
• Has worked on scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment, including experience from project management on multiple platforms.
• Expertise on building horizontally scalable, distributed, resilient, fault-tolerant, and monitored solutions.
• A strong attention to detail and a feeling of pride and ownership over the quality of our product.
• A person who values responsibility; someone who will take technical ownership of the product across all stages of a product's lifecycle.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision as well as work in cross-functional and across geography.
• Flexible and committed to do what needs to be done.
• The ability to advocate for best practices, great usability, and exceptional quality.
• Great organizational skills and a strong feel for process.

Technical Skills:

• Hands-on Engineering Manager who can write code in C#/.NET Core and has built complex solutions in the past.
• Excellent design and programming skills primarily in backend with a focus on enterprise server solutions using C#, and.NET Core/.NET 6 in Azure cloud.
• Good knowledge of.NET Framework or lower versions of.NET.
• Strong knowledge in Azure cloud.
• Experience working on low-latency, highly scalable applications.
• Strong design and development experience in distributed, clustered, and multi-threaded applications.
• Experience in design and implementation of service interface and public APIs.
• Strong practical experience working with cloud platforms.
• Strong organization and a big believer of checklists.
• Experience with high-scale container orchestration viz. Kubernetes etc.
• Experience working with databases and data models – SQL Server, NoSQL, document DB, Cosmos DB etc.
• Messaging/Streaming - (MQTT, Apache/Confluent Kafka, Active MQ or Rabbit MQ)
• Solid experience with CI/CD tools - Azure DevOps, Git, Gitlab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Strong experience of Agile, Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) & Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience with API Gateways and integrations.
• Deep knowledge and experience of using different algorithms and data structures, knowledge of object-oriented design, Design Patterns and multi-threaded programming.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Highly skilled in writing unit & integration tests across all components; an advocate for automated testing.
• Fully participated as a technical lead in delivering major Epics.
• Solid background in low-level design, OOP, object and data modelling, governance and quality of data ingestion.
• A person who stays relevant with the latest technology advancements and trends.
• You have strong knowledge of microservices architecture frameworks, Event Driven Architecture & Domain Driven Design.
• Any experience in modernization of legacy systems and customer migrations, would be desired.

Other Skills:

• An excellent team manager, balanced with strong autonomy and high motivation to deliver and lead.
• An out-of-the-box-thinker with an open mind who is intrigued by new ideas and innovative solutions.
• Working proactively to learn new technologies and is an inspiration leader to team and colleagues.
• Knowledge or working experience in an eCommerce domain would be an added advantage.

Maersk is an Equal Opportunities Employer

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we welcome applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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