Engineering Manager (Data Analytics Product)

Maersk is achieving an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our businesses, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world’s trade flows across our global network. Our software and technology are center stage in creating value for our business and our customers. In this Product Delivery Lead role, you will be working on the maersk.com platform as part of the Global Data & Analytics team, developing the personalization and recommendation software and systems that guide our customers through their experience with global trade.

We work together, we workout together (in our onsite gym). We meet in our newly renovated office; we meet for walks along the water. We discuss world affairs over breakfast and lunch in our canteen, or in our collaboration lounges. We wear what makes us feel comfortable and we wear ourselves out finding solutions to problems that affect millions of people every day. If you are passionate about working in an entrepreneurial environment supporting an ambitious team on a great transformation journey – then this role is the perfect next step in your career!

We offer

This is an extremely exciting time to join a growing and dynamic team that solves some of the toughest problems in the industry and builds the future of trade & logistics. Maersk’s Technology organisation offers a unique opportunity to impact global trade via the largest container shipping company in the world. In our Copenhagen office, we are a growing team of more than 30 nationalities. We focus on our people and the right candidate will have broad possibilities to further develop competencies in an environment characterised by change and continuous progress.

• We operate in a fast-paced environment utilizing modern technologies and bias toward action.
• We value customer outcomes and are passionate about using technology to solve problems.
• We are a diverse team with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures
• We offer the freedom, and responsibility, to shape the setup and the processes we use in our community
• We support continuous learning, including through conferences, workshops and meetups.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with business owners to understand business needs, spar with the Architect to refine solution designs and spar with the Scrum Master to enable agile on an ad hoc basis
• Building deep and trusted relationships with key business stakeholders
• Driving the delivery of value as part of an effective, engaged team with an agile product team mindset which delivers in partnership with our colleagues across Maersk.
• Taking accountability, building expertise and form strong relationships.
• Coordinate work items across multiple backlogs (acting as a Scrum of Scum master / RTE); negotiating and influencing change across products and portfolios groups where required.
• Work with other Engineering Managers to drive platform and technology strategy to truly enable DevOps and target continuous release
• Translate requirements that need to be developed and act as day to day architect in the DevOps setting, recommending alternative approaches when necessary
• Responsible for defining the development methodology, ensuring adoption across the engineering team and SCRUM teams.
• Stay on top of development activities across multiple products while communicating status and progress back to the Product Owner and related stakeholders
• Lead a team of highly motivated engineers towards building and delivering solutions that support central business outcomes
• Accountable for the product specific development, construction, test and maintenance of delivered solutions
• Promoting a culture of learning; new ways of thinking and experimentation continually learning from experiences; inspect, adapt and continually improve
• An ability to identify and eliminate waste through process simplification or automation

We are looking for

• 10+ years of experience in software development end experience with agile and DevOps
• Expertise in building solutions in an agile/DevOps environment as well as managing teams in that space. Should have in depth exposure to business intelligence and cloud technologies like Azure, AWS or google cloud etc. Experience in building scalable, high availability platforms and products.

Business & Technical Skills:

• Skilled stakeholder- and people manager with the ability to communicate complex messages, constructively challenge Product Owners and related stakeholders
• Excellent understanding on finance domain and book closure activity for every month
• Familiar with P&L terminology and finance reporting
• Good understanding on cloud technologies like AWS, Azure and business intelligence
• Experts in database and reporting technologies like BO, Tableau, crystal reporting, PowerBI
• 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 data architecture & analytics including experience from project management on multiple platforms
• Expertise on building horizontally scalable, distributed, resilient, fault tolerant and monitored solutions
• Needs to have a solid understanding of agile system development - experience with coding languages is a plus
• Fundamental leadership skills – preferably from an agile setting

Behavioural skill

• Capability development

➢ Understanding software industry trends and relevant innovations in software delivery methods
➢ A knowledge of Identity and its integral part in IT Security
➢ The ability to continually identify team improvements (retrospective analysis, maturity assessments and OKR’s and KPI’s)
➢ Mentoring skills; supporting and coaching excellence

• Organisational Design

➢ The ability to design and build the most effective teams and team structures; capitalising on geographic benefits and maximise return on investment
➢ The ability to build cultures aligned to changes in processes, systems, technology and tools

• People development

➢ The ability to provide direction, support and guidance for others
➢ The ability to create meaningful targets (OKR’s) for the team and monitor to conclusion

• Product Skills

➢ An understanding of the trade-off between technical investments and continual delivery of business outcome
➢ A good understanding of technical trends in the software development industry