Software Engineering Director - APM Terminals Operations

The Maersk group operates one of the most comprehensive marine container terminals networks in the world, under the brand of APM Terminals, with over 20,000 employees operating 76 terminals in 36 countries and growing. APM Terminals (APMT) plays a critical role in enabling the global Maersk Ocean and Logistics network as well as serving other Shipping Lines, Beneficial Cargo Owners, Freight Forwarders, intermodal logistics providers and integrating with a wide variety of local port authorities, customs and government bodies across our global network of transhipment, import and export gateway terminals. In support of the broader Maersk strategy, we are accelerating the transformation of our business from a portfolio of independently operated terminals into a safer, better, bigger global terminals operator.

Software Engineering Director - Terminal Operations - Tangiers, Morocco

We Offer

Maersk is achieving an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our businesses, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world’s trade flows across our global network. Our software and technology is centre stage in creating value for our business and our customers. If you are passionate about working in an entrepreneurial environment supporting an ambitious, culturally diverse team on a great transformation journey – then this role is the perfect next step in your career!

Key Responsibilities

As a Software Engineering Director, you own building, managing, focusing, and developing an engineering team that meets the needs of the business and works well within the overall system architecture. You draw from a deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers, complete hands-on technical work, and provide leadership on complex technology issues in the company. While you should possess deep technical skills, you spend the majority of your time building and nurturing great software engineering talent.

1. Responsible for providing technology leadership to the engineering team to ensure products and platform services get built based on defined specifications and industry best practices in a timely manner.
2. Delivery accountability and implementation ownership of solutions for our vessels including both in-house engineered and 3rd party products.
3. In charge of defining processes & systems to manage workstreams that include software engineering.
4. Drive compliance & adherence to processes amongst the staff.
5. Work with product owner, scrum masters and the scrum team to do release and sprint planning and provide team commitments accordingly.
6. Drive career growth for your team members by understanding their aspirations and connecting them with Maersk’s strategy.
7. Attract world-class talent and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members.
8. Work with the team to publish research and represent Maersk at top-notch professional venues.
9. Have financial and budgetary responsibility for area of delivery.

We Are Looking For

1. Experience with Monolithic software and moving away from it.
2. Expertise on building horizontally scalable, distributed, resilient/tolerant and monitored solutions.
3. Vendor Management and stakeholder relations.
4. Experience in cloud-ready, scalable, high-availability platforms and products.
5. Experience with large scale 3rd party solution implementation.
6. Ability to continually identify team improvements (retrospective analysis, maturity assessments, and OKR’s and KPI’s).
7. An understanding of the trade-off between technical investments and continual delivery of business outcomes.
8. Ability to provide direction, support, and guidance for others.
9. Knowledge of Microservices based architecture - Java Tech Stack.
10. Good understanding of cloud technologies like Azure and UI frameworks like Angular.
11. Independently lead solution design and estimation.
12. Understanding software industry trends and relevant innovations in software delivery methods.
13. Experience with Information Security management - Maintain the data confidentiality & integrity and relevant compliance of information systems.

About Maersk

Working at Maersk At Maersk, we're building a culture where everyone can feel at home. We don't just work across continents, we work across different genders, generations, cultures, sexual orientations, religions, disabilities and perspectives. Together, we succeed as one global team. We want to encourage innovation and empower our teams to share new ways of thinking, making the most of our diverse talents. But it’s also about feeling involved and encouraged to be yourself.

We’re excited for you to become part of our team and fully join in the adventure ahead.

Additional Info

Ref. R16331 At APM Terminals, we are a team of over 20,000 employees spread across more than 60 countries united by a passion to provide our expertise in port operations and container management services. By providing the expertise and port infrastructure essential to world trade, we actively support the advancement of the societies around us, enabling local economies to unlock their potential and build an even stronger global community. Working with a team of talented professionals you will get a chance to experience different cultures and make friends all over the world. You’ll find a culturally diverse, stimulating environment at any of our offices, terminals or depots. When you join APM Terminals, the world is your workplace. APM Terminals is an independent business unit within the Danish Maersk Group – a Global Fortune 500 company with about 89,000 employees and offices in 130 countries with global growth opportunities in a range of fields from shipping and energy to our offshore and manufacturing industries - Join us to achieve even your most ambitious career goals!