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Our FinTech business unit - with teams in Amsterdam, London, Shanghai and now, in Bangalore- develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners.
This is a great opportunity for a strong, hands-on Engineering Manager. The focus of this role is to manage, guide and coach an engineering team. The engineering manager takes full ownership of health and the technical direction of the systems under their responsibility and supports the professional development of their team members. We are looking for a technically strong role model that can help their team advance and develop. You will work closely with other leaders, stakeholders and FinTech teams to determine feasibility, effectiveness, scalability and time-to-market for new and existing products.
This is an advanced engineering role on the intersection of multiple technology stacks; requiring knowledge of building highly scalable and resilient services as well as strong ability to connect engineering with business concerns. Contact us If you are ready to take ownership of software platforms with global impact.
With this in mind, we are looking for a seasoned *Infrastructure Engineering Manager *to join us on this adventure within our Financial Systems team.
What you’ll be doing:
People Leadership
- Inspire and motivate multiple cross functional teams both offshore and inshore;
- Directly manage engineers;
- Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating;
- Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team;
- Manage the relation with the managed services teams, to ensure quality and deliverables.
Technology, Craft & Delivery
- Engineering planning and delivery, technical quality and use of best practices within own team;
- Delivery of wider engineering strategic objectives;
- Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team;
- Ability to get into the technical detail when required, to coach, support and mentor the team;
- Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations;
- Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department.
Architecture & Product Strategy
- Define, shape and deliver the roadmap;
- Contribute to quarterly and yearly planning to deliver department objectives;
- Build new products, processes and operational plans;
- Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features;
- Drive innovation in the team;
- Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment.
Qualifications:
- 2-4 years in people leadership role and managing multicultural teams.
- Product engineering background in large organizations
Experience with design, engineering and management for:
large virtualized environments (SAP on AWS preferred)
- Strong stakeholder management abilities (is able to communicate with multiple, cross-functional stakeholders, able to influence stakeholders and manage competing priorities)
- A passion to identify and solve user problems;
- Experience in designing and building resilient, secure, high performing architectures;
- Proficiency in agile, dev-ops methodology, release management practices and tools in a complex SAP landscape;
- A good knack for spotting talent, a team player who can enable the growth of people they work with
- Interest in the latest technology trends and open for innovations coming at any level of the team;
- Experience in payments industry is strongly preferred;
- SAP certifications are preferred
In return, we’ll provide:
- An opportunity to contribute to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide;
- Be part of a fast paced environment and performance driven culture
- Various opportunities to grow technically and personally via side projects, hackathons, conferences and your involvement in the community;
- Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide;
- Working in a fast paced and performance driven culture;
- Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit;
- Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions;
- Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation;
Pre-Employment** Screening: