Overview

Position Title: Principal Engineer

Company: A.P. Moller – Maersk

Location:  Maidenhead, UK

Job Description:

As a principal engineer at Maersk, you will have an instrumental role driving technology solutions and join the ranks of Maersk Technology’s most senior technical community. You will oversee the research, development, and design of engineering projects for Service Delivery systems and applications. You will work on our hardest problems, building high quality, future proof systems that are aligned with our business needs.

Responsibilities:

  • Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity and ambiguity for Service Delivery. Ability to anticipate and prevent future problems. Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward user-centric solutions.
  • Serve as technical lead in the design, implementation and deployment of successful cross-functional projects for next generation Service Delivery’s technology strategy.
  • Work with Product Management and Engineering teams to define the tech transformation design and approach, including principles and guardrails (in alignment with EA frameworks).
  • Identify and champion new capabilities & technologies for the platform. Ability to find innovation opportunities between multiple teams with a willingness to experiment and to bold confront problems. Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration. Act as point of escalation for scrum teams facing complex technical challenges.
  • Mentor / Coach Lead Senior engineers. Make the whole team better by advocating for best practices within team and across organization. Establish design patterns and technologies and drive engineering excellence. Ensure teams are solving for NFRs (performance, scale, resilience, quality) before implementing.
  • Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent. Play an active role in improving our ability to attract and retain technical talent
  • Drive transformation initiatives through hackathons and IP sprints.

Requirements:

  • 15+ years of experience of technology transformation with large enterprises; focused on distributed computing, application microservices and scalable, cloud-native implementations.
  • You are an innovative and experienced, thought Leader with deep hands-on technical skills and a passion for developing other engineers.
  • You are a pragmatic visionary who can translate business needs into workable technical solutions.
  • You are a recognized expert of both breadth and depth in multiple technology domains relevant to Maersk. 

About A.P. Moller - Maersk

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated transport and logistics company; going all the way, together, for our customers and society. ALL THE WAY is our commitment to connect the world so that everyone has both the possibility and the ability to trade, grow and thrive.