Engineering Manager

Job Description

• As an Engineering Manager you will be working with a team of skilled, innovative and passionate engineers in creating cutting edge software solutions for creating and maintaining digital maps. You lead the team in creating breakthrough solutions, advancing agile development principles and improving engineering practices.
• You are responsible for the successful creation of ground-breaking software solutions, while delivering customer value, with high quality along with continuous personal advancement.
• Skills and experience in technical leadership, with the ability to translate business requirements into software design.
• Ability to analyze problems at an abstract level and decompose them into logical parts.
• Develops and builds the teams: attract, recruit and retain capable individuals
• Defines and aligns departmental vision and strategy; clarifies the mission and purpose of the team in line with that vision; supports the teams in executing their mission and eliminates impediments
• Helps individuals to continuously learn and develop themselves (collects, provides and helps to interpret feedback); decides on fair compensation, benefits and promotions.
• Assists the teams and the release manager to continuously improve the way of working; stimulates collaboration within the team and with other teams.
• Creates a safe and employee friendly environment where productivity, quality, transparency and openness are valued. Ensures alignment of TomTom values.
• Provides an open and transparent communication channel between employees and senior management
• Evaluates teams performance against stakeholder expectations, identifies risks and corrective actions and reports to senior management

• Has full management authority and accountability for the performance and end results of the teams within own area of specialty
• Adapts team plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges
• Decisions and problem solving are guided by policies, procedures and department plan; receives guidance from manager for only the most complex situations
• Provides technical guidance to employees, colleagues and/or customers
• Applies deep understanding of the business and how own area integrates with others to achieve unit objectives
• Mentors/ line-manages professionals. Adapts plans and priorities to meet short-term service and/or operational objectives
• Identifies and solves technical and operational problems and addresses issues with impact beyond own team based on knowledge of related disciplines; understands and recognizes broader impact across the department
• Guided by policies and departmental plan, primary accountability for the end results of the team; has impact by exercising control over resources and planning
• Guides and influences others either internally or externally to adopt a different point of view
• Be a servant leader

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent field and must have min. 15 years of experience with a proven track record in technical roles
• 3 years of experience in managing a team of engineers and architects.
• Expert hands on knowledge of latest technology, good exposure to web technologies and open to all technologies primarily Java but not limited to that.
• Knowledge of modern programming technologies and approaches (OOP, Design Patterns, SOLID principles, TDD, Service Oriented Architecture etc.)

• Proven track record with complex architectural designs and getting them developed / deployed
• Very good exposure to devops concepts and tools, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Hands on experience of handling (or at least being major part of) complex business situations and enterprise level software products
• Thinker can come up with ideas and has the courage and perseverance to bring them to reality
• Puts the team before self, believes in and can build strong teams across units and rallying team s support for a cause
• Awareness and experience in working with multicultural, multi-locations teams

Keyskills :
safetycommissioningpreventive maintenanceisodocumentationclosed loopcustomer valueproblem solvingdesign patternscomputer scienceweb technologiessolid principles