KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Understand and be a champion of DP World’s business and product strategy
- Have a deep understanding, both low level and high level, across a swathe of technologies
- Have built and helped build business systems from the ground up, and having scaled them
- While being strategic, provide a very ‘Hands-on’ technical leadership and mentoring for engineers
- Own the software design, architecture and operational excellence across the cargoes products
- Work with product management and business heads to rapidly iterate on features and grow the business.
- Actively seek to prevent redundancies, while allowing that where appropriate in order to accomplish an effective balance between short term and long term goals
- Establish and promote software design and development guidelines, deployment strategies, best practices, and standards
- Ensure the security-first approach during the design & development of applications
- Adhere to all the DP World policies including information security
- Responsible for the indirect management and leadership of an engaged team, promoting collaboration and ensuring that each is developed and evaluated against goals and objectives which are aligned, specific, measurable, attainable yet challenging, realistic and time bound.
- Act as an ambassador for DP World at all times when working; promoting and demonstrating positive behaviors in harmony with DP World’s Founder’s Principles, values and culture; ensuring the highest level of safety is applied in all activities; understanding and following DP World’s Code of Conduct and Ethics policies
- Perform other related duties as assigned
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JOB CONTEXT:
DP World is a leading enabler of global trade and an integral part of the supply chain. We operate multiple yet related businesses – from marine and inland terminals, maritime services, logistics and ancillary services to technology-driven trade solutions.
We have a portfolio of 78 operating marine and inland terminals supported by over 50 related businesses in over 70 countries across six continents with a significant presence in both high-growth and mature markets. We aim to be essential to the bright future of global trade, ensuring everything we do has a long-lasting positive impact on economies and society.
Our dedicated team of nearly 100,000 employees from 110 countries cultivates long-standing relationships with governments, shipping lines, importers and exporters, communities, and many other important constituents of the global supply chain, to add value and provide quality services today and tomorrow.
Container handling is the company’s core business and generates more than three quarters of its revenue. In 2018, DP World handled 71 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across our portfolio. With its committed pipeline of developments and expansions, the current gross capacity of 90 million TEU is expected to rise to more than 100 million TEU by 2020, in line with market demand.
By thinking ahead, foreseeing change and innovating we aim to create the most productive, efficient and safe trade solutions globally.
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
- Bachelors in Computer Science or related field from a reputed institution. Masters degree is a plus.
- Around 15 years of experience in the software development field, working across a wide swathe of technologies
- 5-10 years of experience leading the architecture and design function in an organization, and managing enterprise architecture
- Ability to take complex problems and simplify them elegantly. Meet time to market requirements of the business while not compromising software design principles.
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate software choices and tradeoffs clearly and persuasively
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across multiple organizations and drive alignment
- Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate a bias for action in a fast-paced environment, working on ambiguous and challenging projects
- Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations
- Experience with tools and standards of software development, testing, deployment and operational excellence
