Software Engineering Director - Terminal Operations

Opportunity

The Maersk group operates one of the most comprehensive marine container terminals networks in the world, under the brand of APM Terminals, with over 20,000 employees operating 76 terminals in 36 countries and growing.

APM Terminals (APMT) plays a critical role in enabling the global Maersk Ocean and Logistics network as well as serving other Shipping Lines, Beneficial Cargo Owners, Freight Forwarders, intermodal logistics providers and integrating with a wide variety of local port authorities, customs and government bodies across our global network of transhipment, import and export gateway terminals.

In support of the broader Maersk strategy, we are accelerating the transformation of our business from a portfolio of independently operated terminals, into a safer, better, bigger global terminals operator.

We offer

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 net-work. Our software and technology is centre stage in creating value for our business and our customers. If you are passionate about working in an entrepreneurial environment supporting an ambitious, culturally diverse team on a great transformation journey – then this role is the perfect next step in your career!

Key Responsibilities

As a Software Engineering Director, you own building, managing, focusing, and developing an engineering team that meets the needs of the business and works well within the overall system architecture. You draw from a deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers, complete hands-on technical work, and provide leadership on complex technology issues in the company. While you should possess deep technical skills, you spend majority of your time building and nurturing great software engineering talent.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing technology leadership to engineering team to ensure products and platform services get built based on defined specifications and industry best practices in a timely manner
• Delivery accountability and implementation ownership of solutions for our vessels including both in-house engineered and 3rd party products
• In charge of defining processes & systems to manage workstreams that include software engineering
• Drive compliance & adherence to processes amongst the staff
• Work with product owner, scrum masters and the scrum team do release and sprint planning and provide team commitments accordingly
• Drive career growth for your team members by understanding their aspirations and connecting them with Maersk’s strategy
• Attract world-class talent and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
• Work with the team to publish research and represent Maersk at top-notch professional venues.
• Have financial and budgetary responsibility for area of delivery.

We are looking for

• Extensive industry experience with many experiences in architecting and/or developing and deliverables and end-to-end products/solutions. Recent experience in managing 2-3 scrum teams
• Expertise in building solutions in an agile/DevOps environment as well as managing teams in that space
• Experience with Monolithic software and moving away from it
• Expertise on building horizontally scalable, distributed, resilient/tolerant and monitored solutions
• Experience in cloud-ready ready, scalable, high-availability platforms and products.
• Experience with large scale 3rd party solution implementation
• Ability to continually identify team improvements (retrospective analysis, maturity assessments, and OKR’s
• and KPI’s)
• An understanding of the trade-off between technical investments and continual delivery of business outcome
• Ability to provide direction, support, and guidance for others
• Knowledge of Microservices based architecture with experience in .NET core tech stack
• Good understanding of cloud technologies like Azure and UI frameworks like Angular
• Understanding of AI, machine learning, process automation technologies and Event Streaming technologies (Ex: Confluent)
• Independently lead solution design and estimation
• Understanding software industry trends and relevant innovations in software delivery methods
• Experience with Information Security management - Maintain the data confidentiality & integrity and relevant compliance of information systems.
  

About Maersk

Maersk is committed to an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionize global trade. This will require a team that both understands and can lead the way in world class service and operations. Do you see yourself enjoying lots of opportunities to collaborate with colleagues around the globe, expanding your skills in an atmosphere that prioritizes employee growth and being a part of an inspiring work environment? Then join us as we reinvent the future of integrated logistics.

What gets you out of bed each morning:

The Purpose that drives us: To improve life for all by integrating the world. “Our purpose is the reason why we get out of bed each morning – looking forward to a new and exciting day. It’s not about making money, but what we contribute to the world we all share. That means satisfying our customers, attracting and retaining great talent, and conducting ourselves as a responsible and valued member of our communities,” says CEO Soren Skou.

The purpose guides us in being at our best – and that, we imagine, you share with us.

Working at Maersk

At Maersk, 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’re excited for you to become part of our team and fully join in the adventure ahead.