Engineering Management

Job Title: Engineering Management

Location: Netherlands

Employment type: contract

ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT:

Organization is partnering with a leading retail enterprise to re-architect its core order management platform from a legacy monolith to a cloud-native, microservices-based ecosystem on GCP/Ali cloud/on-prem. The Engineering Manager will be the technical and people anchor for this multi-squad delivery, owning end-to-end execution from design to production.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Engineering Management

Microservices Architecture

Event-Driven Systems

Cloud Platforms (GCP, Ali cloud)

Kafka

Solace & Messaging

DevOps & CI/CD

Distributed Systems

Kubernetes & Docker

Technical Leadership

Retail Domain Expertise

Agile & Roadmap Planning

People Development

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Technical Expertise:

•12+ years of software engineering experience; 3+ years leading engineering teams of 10 or more.

•Deep expertise in microservices architecture and event-driven systems (Apache Kafka, Solace, AWS MSK, or equivalent).

•Hands-on cloud experience on GCP/Ali cloud and their services.

•Strong foundation in Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot for backend systems.

•Proven track record delivering CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a production environment.

•Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

•Database proficiency: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent; awareness of NoSQL and caching patterns (Redis/ElastiCache).

•Familiarity with API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and integration patterns (ESB migration, strangler fig).

Retail / Domain Context (Preferred)

•Experience with retail or e-commerce platform modernization

•Understanding of omnichannel retail architecture

Leadership & Soft Skills:

•Demonstrated ability to manage hiring, performance, and career development for distributed engineering teams.

•Excellent stakeholder communication - able to translate technical complexity into clear business language.

•Strong agile practitioner; experience with SAFe or LeSS in large program contexts is a plus.

•Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving decisions in a fast-paced transformation environment.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Engineering Excellence

•Define and enforce Dev & QE best practices across squads

•Own Tech Design and Implementation approach

•Establish and operate DevOps pipelines and practices

•Drive AI enablement across engineering workflows

Delivery & Execution

•Accountable for overall Sprint Execution and capacity planning

•Facilitate and unblock work across all Engineering Leads

•Manage RAAIDD - with emphasis on unblocking technical dependencies

•Coordinate Release management in collaboration with the client

•Drive Go/No-Go decisions collaboratively with client’s stakeholders

•Own Production Cutover strategy and facilitation

Agile & Ceremonies

•Champion and embed Agile Ways of Working across teams

•Manage sprint estimations, velocity tracking, and capacity accountability

•Track all standard Agile/Scrum metrics and component KPIs

People & Resources

•People management - performance, growth, and engagement

•Assess resource requirements and skill sets; flag gaps proactively

•Act as closest leadership touchpoint to Squads, ELs, and engineers

Governance & Financials

•Manage tech costs and drive platform/people cost optimisation

•Measure and report on Delivery, Quality, Time, Cost, and Scope metrics

•Lead Change Request impact assessments

•Align dependencies across squads and external teams

Stakeholder Collaboration (Amigos Model)

•Collaborate across Product, Architecture, Data Architecture, PM, EL, QA, Legacy Team, and BAs

•Operate at multi-squad level bridging Engineering and Delivery roles

Izvor: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4480768987/

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