This role requires in-depth expertise in software architecture, promoting secure and high-performance coding practices, and maintaining design integrity throughout the project lifecycle.
It leads a key functional area for the organisation, with a global remit. It provides leadership through the technical direction of software leaders, who may be experts or domain authorities in their field. The role contributes to the development of the technical strategy and approach. The role is that of an expert contributor who leads people from an engineering and technical perspective.We offer:
Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities
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Tasks and Qualifications:- Define and maintain the organisation’s technical vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and operational goals.
- Establish and enforce engineering lifecycle and design principles, architectural standards, and coding patterns to ensure project consistency, maintainability, and quality.
- Promote software reuse through strategic design and code pattern frameworks, encouraging efficiency and alignment with business needs.
- Oversee the evaluation and validation of software solutions, ensuring their alignment with organisational objectives and technical quality standards.
- Act as the primary escalation point for complex technical challenges, ensuring timely resolution and effective risk mitigation.
- Provide leadership to the engineering roles, ensuring alignment with engineering lifecycles, technical directives and strategic goals.
- Mentor and coach engineering and testing teams, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and professional growth
- Define and oversee quality assurance practices, including code reviews, automated testing strategies, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Monitor software development processes to ensure high-quality outputs, including adherence to engineering lifecycles, technical directives and design governance principles.
- Promote the adoption of innovative tools, methodologies, and technologies that enhance the organisation’s technical capabilities.
- Lead efforts to integrate new technologies effectively, ensuring alignment with the organisation’s technical strategy and resource capabilities.
Knowledge & Experience Required
- Deep knowledge of software engineering principles, including architecture, coding standards, quality assurance, and governance, with a proven track record of delivering complex, scalable software projects.
- Substantial experience leading diverse technical teams, mentoring senior engineers, and working cross-functionally to align technical strategies with business goals.
- Expertise in establishing design principles, technical directives, and governance practices while promoting innovation, software reuse, and compliance with industry standards.
- Proven ability to implement quality assurance practices, drive continuous improvement, manage organisational change, and mitigate risks effectively.
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Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries.
We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers.
Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry.
With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis.
No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally.
Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
