Senior Engineering Manager

Job Description

Senior Engineering manager

Job Level 5

IN, DK, UK

A.P. Moller - Maersk

A.P. Moller – Maersk is the global leader in container shipping services. The business operates in 130 countries and employs c. 80,000 staff. An integrated container logistics company, Maersk aims to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains.

We Offer

Joining Maersk will embark you on a transformational journey with great opportunities for career development within a global organization. As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Integration AI team, you will lead a team of skilled AI engineers, driving automation, efficiency, and innovation across the integration platform. You will oversee the delivery of AI solutions, ensuring the integration platform remains adaptable to change and continuously drives operational excellence.

The Brief

A globally focused shipping and transportation organisation is continuing to drive an ambitious and complex change and transformational programme to deliver a service of excellence for its customers and clients worldwide. The Global CTIO has a mandate from the Maersk board to lead the Technology transformation of Maersk which will enable the Maersk business strategy to become the global integrator of container logistics through digitising the Maersk business processes and customer engagement.

The Technology Function is fundamental to enable the company’s transformation and in response to this demand, our in-house technological capability is growing exponentially. We are recruiting world class talent to ensure that the technology services are modernised to enable Maersk to become a logistics integrator leveraging a competitive advantage through technology.

Why this job matters?

Our Integration Platform is a digital marketplace that connects different groups of people (Maersk Customers, Developers, Commercial Teams, Digital Partners, and Aggregators) to our Maersk Portfolio (which includes services like Ocean, Warehousing, and Supply Chain Management). This platform allows for easy and efficient exchange of data, resulting in cost and time savings. It also reduces the need for manual operations, improves data accuracy, and ensures top-notch security at a large scale.

This role combines technical leadership, strategic thinking, and people management to deliver world-class developer experiences and AI-driven insights from customer integrations. You will shape the future of how developers interact with our platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, and data-driven decision-making. You will part of defining and executing the vision to drive monetization of digital services, efficiency, and innovation across the integration platform. You will be at the forefront of leveraging digital services to generate revenue, collect customer feedback. You will design and build integartions that revolutionizes the way we transact with our partners, leveraging vendor and inhouse tools, as well as AI to automate workflows.

Specific Job Requirements

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers, managing performance, career growth, and succession planning.
• Define and drive the strategy and roadmap for the integration platform in alignment with business objectives.
• Own delivery of solutions and projects, ensuring on-time delivery, quality standards, and measurable business impact.
• Establish and monitor key performance metrics for initiatives including efficiency gains and ROI.
• Partner with fellow engineering managers, solution architects, and product leadership to identify high-impact opportunities across the integration platform.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement, experimenting with emerging AI technologies and driving their adoption.

What I'll be doing – your accountabilities?

• Drive end-to-end responsibility and T-shaped people mindset in development team(s).
• Facilitate the work of development team(s) focusing on delivering value to our business customers.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction on complex architectures and implementation decisions.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise standards for data privacy, security, governance, and ethical practices.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with senior stakeholders across business lines to drive adoption and value realization.
• Drive a culture of experimentation and learning, enabling the team to innovate and continuously improve.
• Communicate roadmap, progress, and business impact to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Seek regular feedback and showcase progress through demos
• Enable data-driven decisions and continuous improvement
• Experience in cloud-ready, scalable, high-availability platforms and products.
• Experience with large-scale 3rd party solution implementation
• Drive cross-functional collaboration between integration engineering teams to ensure customer value.

The Candidate

To be considered for this opportunity candidates will have the following capabilities:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• Proven experience (10+ years) in software engineering with deep expertise in AI technologies and applications.
• Demonstrated leadership experience (7+ years) managing engineering teams, including, hiring, performance management, and talent development.
• Proven track record of delivering complex projects that drive measurable business value and efficiency gains.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with ability to influence and communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with metrics-driven management, continuous improvement methodologies, and agile delivery practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and innovation mindset with mentorship and coaching abilities.
• Experience with integration platforms, EDI systems, and enterprise middleware technologies.
• Proven experience with cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, scalable APIs.
• Experience in AI/ML integration, data analytics.

The candidate will be a fit with the culture and values of Maersk.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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