Software Engineering Manager II

What You'll Do

You are responsible for the successful creation of ground-breaking software solutions by participating in various aspects of software development including technical requirements analysis, architecture and design, code reviews, automation and continuous delivery, 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 robust and scalable software services.
Responsible for managing a team of 7-10 members.
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.
Primary accountability for the end results and deliveries of the team; has impact by exercising control over resources and planning.
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.
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 teams within own area of specialty.
Develops and builds the teams :
attract, recruit and retain capable individuals.
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.
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.
Applies deep understanding of the business and how own area integrates with others to achieve unit objectives through sustained collaboration.
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.
What You'll Need

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent field and 10 years of experience in a technical role
3+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management experience.
Provide technical direction to the team to deliver solutions to ensure highly automated, cost efficient, reliable and scalable systems for global map updates with fast cycle times
Experience with full stack applications / services / tools / script to process big data in the cloud
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.
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.

What we offer
A competitive compensation package, of course.
Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O'Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.
Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.
Work from home, the office, or even abroad each team has the flexibility to choose how they work based on business needs.
Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.
Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we're mapping.
Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.
Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!
Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location.
Meet your team
We're Maps, a global team within TomTom's Location Technology Products technical unit.
Our team is driven to deliver the most up-to-date, accurate and detailed maps for hundreds of millions of users around the world.
Joining our team, you'll continuously innovate our mapmaking processes, directly contributing to our vision :
engineering the world's most trusted and useful map.
At TomTom.

You'll help people find their way in the world.
In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device.
Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.
Work with a team of 3,700 unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers.
Together, we'll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.
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