Senior Manager - Platform Engineering - Aarhus or Gdansk

Location: Viby J, DK Gdansk, PL

Are you a strong leader who thrive through the development and success of your employees? Are you looking to play a highly strategic role that will directly impact the organization for years to come? Do you love to learn? Is a technical environment a playground to you? Then this role could be for you!

At Arla, we don't just make dairy products. We make healthy taste delicious, mornings worth waking up for, and family dinners memorable. Our well-known brands, such as Arla®, Castello®, and Lurpak®, are part of everyday life in over 100 countries. Join Arla's Global IT team and help us transform the future of dairy products. We have over 200+ IT specialists and 800 consultants who make a difference for people around the world.

How you will make an impact
As a Senior Manager in the Platforms function within IT Solutions, you will lead a new and vital area for Arla that helps us grow and scale our custom cloud native solutions. You will create and run a function that can keep up with or exceed the business needs, and work with our architects and external partners to support and enable Arla’s strategic use of cloud native and other tools to develop and deploy our “tailormade” solutions.

This new area, like many in Arla, depends on great people. Your task, is to make the business case, vision and purpose of the platform engineering area and, once you have got it approved, build a team of skilled and passionate people and empower them to ensure our success in this area.

Secondly, in this role you will collaborate with colleagues across IT and the wider organisation to understand our goals, then help set the foundation to achieve them and finally deliver success every day through secure, stable and robust platform engineering. There are 9 Agile Release Trains (ART’s) all delivering cloud native solutions that will benefit from your function's work in delivering faster, more effectively and in a way that focuses on the full solution lifecycle.

Overtime this area will grow and integrate in our IT organisation and the developer experience that your team builds, runs and maintains should be the only tool/environment our software development teams need to use to deliver industry leading solutions.

Key responsibilities:

• People leadership – both leading leaders and also having the direct people management responsibilities over time
• Strategy and business case development and execution
• Capability review and planning
• Budget responsibility
• Technical oversight, guidance and sparring

To succeed in this role, we imagine that you have:

• A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related degree. Alternatively significant work experience in a similar or related field.
• Proven experience in building and leading engineering teams.
• A technical background with experience in cloud computing platforms and system scalability would be beneficial.
• Demonstrated success in establishing infrastructure and DevOps practices from the ground up. In addition, you have experience with Agile, SAFe, and Scrum methodologies.

• Experienced in CI/CD practices and developer experience tools.
• Excellent strategic planning, project management, and organizational skills.

The ideal candidate embodies a dynamic personality that thrives on a "fail fast" and "fail forward" approach, demonstrating an exceptional capacity to learn swiftly. You are comfortable navigating the unknown, proactively seeking solutions, and making prompt decisions. Your adaptability and collaborative spirit is matched by a resilience that allows them to remain steadfast in the face of resistance. In addition, you possess exceptional communication and leadership abilities and thrive in an ever-changing and fast-paced environment.

What do we offer?

Seize this opportunity to make a significant impact on Arla's IT journey and contribute to the continuous growth of our innovative solutions. We are committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. And you will join a market leader who produces nutritious household-favourite brands in a way that makes things better for our customers, the farmers who own us, and the whole world.

Would you like to join us?

If you are ready to drive innovation and make a global impact alongside talented colleagues, seize this exciting opportunity by applying today. Contact Paul Freeman at [email protected] for any further questions or information.

We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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