Senior Engineering Manager

Job Description

Maersk is a global leader in integrated logistics, having been industry pioneers for over a century. Through innovation and transformation, we are redefining the boundaries of possibility, continuously setting new standards for efficiency, sustainability, and excellence. At Maersk, we believe in the power of diversity, collaboration, and continuous learning, and we work hard to ensure that the people in our organization reflect and understand the customers we exist to serve. With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, we work together to shape the future of global trade and logistics. Join us as we harness cutting-edge technologies and unlock opportunities on a global scale. Together, let's sail towards a brighter, more sustainable future with Maersk. Position Summary: As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Supply Chain Management (SCM) team, you will be a key driver and enabler in fundamentally shifting how we design and build software throughout its lifecycle. You will lead, mentor, and empower a team of two Scrum Teams, fostering a culture of mutual respect, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making. This role demands a leader with proven experience in building and leading high-performing development teams, alongside a strong ability to drive best practices in the software delivery lifecycle, architectural design, and the adoption of engineering metrics. Key Responsibilities: End-to-End Ownership: Own deliverables end-to-end per plan, working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes. Team Leadership & Management: Manage, mentor, and provide strong leadership to a team comprising two Scrum Teams. Agile Enablement: Effectively run scrum ceremonies and build high-performing Agile teams. Coaching & Empowerment: Empower, challenge, and coach team members to grow their impact as individual technical leaders by providing context and continuous feedback. Culture & Collaboration: Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration, and data-driven, consensus-based decision-making within and across teams. Technical Mentorship: Mentor and lead other engineers on the team to deliver high-quality features and enhancements. Architectural Vision: Define and own high-level architecture designs and the technology roadmap with associated release goals. Innovation & POCs: Define and help develop Proofs of Concept (POCs) for new and upcoming strategic technology solutions. Engineering Best Practices: Define team-wide engineering best practices and establish mechanisms to measure their adoption. Technical Alignment: Drive technical architecture conversations and ensure alignment with platform teams. Capacity & Recruitment: Plan for team capacity and actively contribute to the recruitment of high-quality colleagues. External Representation: Represent the team in internal and external technology events and conferences. Metrics & Performance: Define and drive the adoption of engineering metrics across the teams to ensure continuous improvement and measurable impact. Required Skills & Qualifications: Experience: 12+ years of experience in software engineering. Full Stack Knowledge: Proficiency with any UI stack (React, Angular, and/or Vue) and .Net technologies. Open-Source: Experience analyzing, building, and implementing open-source technologies, with a strong preference for Open-Source experience. UX & UI Driving: Experience in driving UX improvements, efficient UI development, and metrics-driven improvements. Data & APIs: Experience with datastores (SQL, NoSQL, etc.), API, and event-based technologies (Kafka). Microservices: Strong understanding of microservice-based architectures and how to achieve composability. Test-Driven Development: Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) approaches. Scalability & Performance: Experience delivering solutions that operate with large volumes of data and strict non-functional requirements around performance, flexibility, and scalability. Cloud Platforms: Experience delivering solutions leveraging at least one leading cloud platform. Broad Technical Knowledge: Broad knowledge of programming languages, operating system principles, and software development best practices. Team Leadership: Experience building and leading high-performing remote engineering teams with high degrees of psychological safety. Feedback & Communication: Proactively gives and receives feedback; is not afraid to have difficult conversations. Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to drive conversations across multiple teams to a conclusion. Ambiguity Navigation: Ability to seek different perspectives and relevant context to effectively navigate ambiguity. Inclusive Culture: Ability to foster an inclusive team culture that enables team members of all backgrounds to succeed and thrive. Technical Translation: Experience developing and reviewing complex technical requirements and translating them into actionable tasks for engineers. Cross-Functional Project Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional projects and serving as a main Point of Contact (POC) for their team across a large organization. Architectural Leadership: Experience driving end-to-end architectural discussions across teams and organizations. Distributed Systems: Experience in helping lead development lifecycle processes, best practices, and operating distributed cloud-based microservices. Large Project Design: Experience in designing systems or components on large projects (e.g., 5 million USD scale). What We Offer: Joining Maersk means embarking on a great journey with significant career development opportunities in a global organization. You will gain broad business knowledge of the company's activities globally and understand how the complexity of IT supports the transport and logistics business. We offer: A challenging and impactful role at the forefront of our digital transformation in SCM. The opportunity to build and lead high-performing engineering teams, directly influencing our software development lifecycle. Exposure to a wide range of business issues and cutting-edge technologies within a global enterprise. A collaborative environment that values continuous learning, innovation, and psychological safety.