Engineering Manager, Atfarm (f/m/d)

About the Unit

Yara aims to be the crop nutrition company for the future and is leading the development of sustainable agriculture and digital tools to contribute to solving global agricultural challenges. We have a worldwide presence with sales teams in ~150 countries and around 17,000 employees. Yara Farming Solutions, will lead the transformation towards more sustainable and efficient food production, by innovating our offerings and the way we work.

Crop and Digital Solutions is responsible developing and scaling new “on-farm” digital and integrated tools and solutions for an efficient and transparent food system.

Responsibilities

You can/will

• Manage a tier of software engineers (developers, Tech leads, QA, architects etc) taking full responsibility for their needs, career growth and compensation. Be an Engineering discipline manager participating in a matrix organisation where disciplines cut across product teams.
• Be a technical consultant and a go-to person when it comes to technical needs from teams, or requirements gathering from Solution managers to suggest right approach in design, process or practices.
• Work with DevOps team to address infrastructural requirements from solution teams, in collaboration with Engineering Discipline Lead.
• Responsible for working on vendor requirements, on-boarding/off-boarding and engagement for involved teams as well as scope of work definitions in consultation with the Engineering Discipline Lead.
• Have a forward-looking attitude towards understanding technical trends and future-proofing, and steer in-house solutions in the right direction.

Profile

You have

• Management experience in software development teams involving roles such as developers, Tech leads, Quality Assurance Testers, Automation engineers and Architects, and managing their career progression.
• Background in mobile application development on at least two projects from inception to scaling, preferably using our technologies (Javascript, React, React native & Nodejs).
• Working knowledge of PaaS and IaaS offerings from AWS or similar cloud provider (we are on AWS and leverage API Gateway, Lambda, Kubernetes, DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL, Cloudfront etc).
• Governance experience in software development best practices for scaling & provisioning infrastructure, CI/CD (CircleCI & Jenkins), test automation & QA processes, service reviews, documentation etc.
• Should have worked in an Agile environment managing intra and inter-team dependencies with clearly defined roles and responsibilities and with scrum methodology practices.

Additional Information

You get

• Evolving tech development division of an established agricultural products and services company.
• Explore and develop digital, software, hardware products, which provide value to farmers, smallholder communities and the value chain.
• Be part of our mission to build sustainable solutions that benefit humanity and the environment.
• Competitive remuneration + benefits
• Support for personal development, training and continuous learning.
• Commitment to using new technologies and frameworks, meetups, and knowledge sharing.