Engineering Manager Job in Tomtom

What you'll do Provide technical direction to the team to deliver solutions leveraging Cloud technologies to ensure highly automated, cost efficient, reliable and scalable systems related to global map updates with fast cycle times. Work closely with data scientists and senior technical experts to enable them to enhance existing applications Responsible for 1 team of 5-10 employees; 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; Applies deep understanding of the business and how own area integrates with others to achieve departmental objectives; Creates a safe and employee friendly environment where productivity, quality, transparency and openness are valued. Ensures alignment of TomTom values; 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; Evaluates teams' performance against stakeholder expectations, identifies risks and corrective actions and reports to senior management; Orchestrate the design, development and delivery with high quality, performance and scale by ensuring timely execution and delivery; Develop, build, mentor and direct a world-class engineering team and cultivate a culture of executing high-velocity and high-class delivery by developing sustainable and scalable components; Nurture the culture of fail often, learn fast and fail fast; A strong collaborative mindset to work closely with your peers in various teams like Product Management, Operations, Quality, Customer teams and more to bring diverse viewpoints and goals together; Define a long-term talent strategy across technologies; A zeal for solving customer problems, and the cascading the same passion across teams; Drive for innovation and improvement - encouraging and enabling your team to improve their tools, processes, and culture, keeping them agile and creative; Has full management authority and accountability for the performance and end results of the team(s) within own area of specialty; Evaluates team's performance against the objectives and key results, identifies risks and corrective actions Adapts team plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges; What you'll need Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent field and must have minimum of 15+ years of experience with a proven track record in techno-managerial roles; 3+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management experience; Experience in Cloud technologies and big data processing is a must 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, SOA, Microservices and Events. Design Patterns, SOLID principles, TDD 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; Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Git/Gerrit, Gitlab, Kubernetes etc.; Awareness and experience in working with multicultural, multi-locations teams. Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies Building data ingestion pipelines for highly scalable big data solutions Experience of Spark and Databricks