Senior Engineering Manager

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY

Maersk is going through times of unprecedented change. From the farm to your refrigerator, the factory to your wardrobe, we are developing solutions that meet customer needs from one end of the supply chain to the other. Digitization and technology are taking center stage in enabling our customers to trade globally, and we are building our core products in-house. Join the world’s leading container logistics company as we embark on an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionize trade. You will be joining an IT organization consisting of more than 5000 dedicated individuals, spanning across geographies. It is an outstanding opportunity for a career in a highly skilled global organization.

WHAT WE OFFER

As a Senior Engineering Manager within our Customs Manifest Platform Team, you will be a key driver and doer in a fundamental shift in how we architect and host our application estate to ensure that we can take our platform operating model to the next level. You will be an advocate to nurture a composable technology foundation which will enable our Product development teams in growing our digital foundation of the future to help deliver for our global customer base.

You will be part of the Customs Manifest Platform, focused on streamlining, optimizing, and automating Customs Manifest operations via advanced software solutions. The Customs Manifest Platform (CMP) is part of the Maersk Logistics & Services (LnS) organization. CMP's mission is to service the operations and product needs of the Customs Manifest Services that Maersk offers to the global enterprise customers and the Customs Compliance requirements that Maersk must satisfy as a carrier. The Customs Integration Platform is in the Journey of transforming its existing application landscape into Cloud Native, Cloud Agnostic, more modern, scalable, high performant, event driven, microservices based architecture.

This engineering leadership role will be responsible for building the product and team that strengthens and grows the Platform. This team will be responsible for a suite of core products and services that enables the next generation of manifest submission to scale. This team will have a combination of both directly user-facing products as well as interfaces for other engineering teams. There are challenges for the team that ranges from building for operational excellence to scaling for massive growth and a wide array of engineering requirements.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The SEM is a very important “V-Shaped” role demonstrating both depth and adjacent breadth across key engineering competencies, e.g., Systems Design and Architecture, Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Security, Analytics, Lifecycle Management, product feature evangelization etc. and successfully collaborate with experts from other subject domains. At the same time the SEM is expected to embody all Maersk values and practice and live major leadership principles for the Team every day on and off work.

• Actively participate in all the scrum ceremonies, contributes towards building a backlog, release plans, estimations, reviews in collaborate with scrum Master, platform architect, product owners & other relevant SEMs within and across the platform
• Help Team design (high level, class level and code level), develop, test, deploy, improve and maintain high quality (scalable, reliable, high performant, highly secure) micro services which follow Maersk Architecture principles, Information Models and quality and security standards
• Drive features through completion and take responsibilities for the value we deliver
• Collaborate with Product Owner and translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Monitor our business-critical application estate respond to incidents /change request / bugs, prioritize them, analyze root cause and advise / implement solutions

As a specialist in Technology, you will be expected

• To promote Agile, DevOps/SRE, DevSecOps frameworks and ensure high quality and low cycle times through model development practices and automation
• To imbibe Clean Code & Clean architecture principles, Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven development principles
• To own, influence, decide on technical / solution architecture, infrastructure design, UI/UX design, quality standards, development process / methodologies, frameworks, tools & technology choices in alignment with Maersk Architecture guidelines, Design Principles and Methodologies
• To constantly looks for areas of improvement in the development process and drive engineering excellence
• To constantly review the application architecture, infrastructure, CI-CD pipeline and work towards improvement / automation
• Prioritize technical debts keeping ultimate focus on ROI on platform health with end customer convenience
• To collaborate with platform architects, enterprise architects and drive compliance to Maersk Architecture principles and design standards
• To participate & enable hiring the best possible talent to build high performance teams
• To guide, develop, support team members on technical queries / support requests and clear day to day issues or roadblocks
• To continuously stay up to date on relevant technologies and use this knowledge to push the team forward
• To propose ideas and provide key inputs to the product and leadership team on product/platform roadmap.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelors or above in Computer Science or STEM subjects
• Minimum 5 years of experience in leading one or multiple squads, with around 12+ years of solid Development experience
• Strong knowledge in data structures, algorithms, design patterns & Clean architecture principles
• Strong knowledge in design principles/methodologies such as SOLID, 12 Factor App, lambda and kappa architecture, TDD, Domain Driven Design & Event Driven Micro Services using sidecar approach
• Hands-on knowledge in designing, writing, and reviewing high performant reactive clean code in Java 8 platform or higher with a recent expertise with Spring, Spring Cloud, Akka, Vertx or similar framework
• Hands on experience in SQL, NOSQL such as SQL Server / PgSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra & Redis
• Usage experience on any search engine or frameworks – Solr, Apache Lucene, OpenSearch
• Strong experience in testing tools/ frameworks such as SonarQube, xUnit, Postman, Cypress/Specflow, Cucumber, Polaris, Blackduck
• Strong hands-on experience in Azure or AWS & hybrid
• Good documentation skills needed with experience in Swagger and/or Markdown
• Knowledge on DevOps tools such as Terraform, git Actions, Datadog, NewRelic
• Expertise on building horizontally scalable, distributed, resilient and fault-tolerant and monitored solutions
• Experience in build, own and run cloud-ready, high-available platforms and products
• Experience with Information Security management including threat modelling - Maintain the data confidentiality & integrity and relevant compliance of the platform
• Have experience in build, manage, grow & retain a sizeable team of engineers building new software products
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills with ability to work effectively across different teams
• Highly motivated and able to navigate, guide through and stay focused in ambiguity
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities and direction may change rapidly as customer requirements and market direction changes
• Last, but not the least, a “Go, get it done with whatever it takes” mindset.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, 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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