Senior Engineering Manager

Opportunity

Maersk is the largest shipping and container logistics company in the world. A $40bn organisation with over 85,000 people, we ship roughly 20% of the world’s container freight. We’re bringing our organisation together to become an integrated container shipping and logistics company, fundamentally re-thinking how we do business. Improving our customer experience is a core priority.

We offer:

We are looking for an expert Engineering Manager - If this sounds like you, read on! By boarding the journey, you will get to:

• Work with a highly professional team who puts users, and thereby product, before every-thing else
• Pair program daily
• Work in an international agile environment with flexible working hours
• Have the possibility to join conferences around Europe for continuous improvement
• Push Maersk towards becoming a digital and product-focused organization
• Build a future career in Maersk

Key Responsibilities:

In this role you will provide the technical direction, guiding and coaching scrum team members on the technical delivery and to perform the daily management of a scrum team. You will ultimately make sure your team use development best practices and suggest learning opportunities to develop your team's skills.

Responsibilities will include:

• Deliver the technical capabilities corresponding to the user stories described in the product backlog owned by the platform product owner
• Manage technical debt and technology trade-offs, communicating #those to the product owner
• Ensure implementation quality and that correct procedures are #in place to assure code and feature quality
• Work closely with other interdependent engineering managers to produce required design specifications and ensure solutions work together and fulfill business needs
• Work with organizational resources outside team to remove impediments and protect them from organizational bureaucracy
• Develop team's skills to be able to deliver product roadmap according #to industry best practices
• Professional development, inputs to performance management #and guidance to the scrum team members
• Drive agile thinking and ways of working to maximise collaboration #and value creation
• Ensure the scrum team provide an accurate estimation of #the development time to the product owners
• Organize the on-call rotation for critical systems
• Develop internal testing capabilities (both automated and manual) #to guaranty Delivery quality I n rapid time.

Further you will be accountable for:

• Accountable for the complete software development cycle #including defining, prioritizing, designing and leading implementation and testing of high-quality new features of the scrum team
• Accountable for the quality and reliability of the technical capabilities deployed by his team
• Accountable for the quality of the code documentation #(including self-onboarding documentation, maintenance documentation and in code documentation)
• Accountable for the respect of forecast delivery lead time
• Accountable for overall scrum team performance according #to metrics and OKRs set out for the team
• Accountable for the recruitment of the best talent to deliver this roadmap.

Who we are looking for:

While reading the following list, please consider that we value attitude more than your expertise. Are you ready to be challenged on delivering an MVP that maximizes customer value? Then you should apply even if you don’t feel you fit the role 100%.

• Demonstrates strong engineering knowledge and capabilities including industry best practices and trends
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and ability to comfortably take on the role of scrum master
• Technically sound in Java and .net technical environment
• Ability to design and build effective teams, provides direction and guidance for others
• An understanding of the trade-off between technical investments and continual delivery of business outcome
• Able to ask the right question to challenge the scrum team in its design choices
• A good knowledge / Successes in Adoption, Growth Hacking and Access Management

The behaviours we are seeking include:

• Business needs focus
• Autonomy through alignment
• Empowering and coaching
• Pace over perfection
• Scrum commitment
• Two-way engagement
• Promoting collaboration

As a performance-oriented company, we strive to always recruit the best person for the job - regardless of gender, age, nationality, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

We’re building a culture where everyone can feel at home. We don't just work across continents, we work across different genders, generations, cultures, sexual orientations, religions, disabilities and perspectives. Together, we succeed as one global team.

We want to encourage innovation and empower our teams to share new ways of thinking, making the most of our diverse talents. But it’s also about feeling involved and encouraged to be yourself.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.