Technical Lead

Technical Lead – Colleague Experience Product Line

About the Team:

Pndora has embarked on an ambitious path to establish a seamless, end-to-end tech experience for our colleagues. One of the core journeys in this agenda has been to digitize all people processes from hire to retire through aggressive global rollout of SAP SuccessFactors across the entire talent suite. As we are continuously adding new solutions for bespoke capabilities to the landscape, robust integration and technical excellence are growing in importance to enable our seamless Colleague Experience from a technical perspective. At the same time, we are embracing a scaled Agile approach structured around product teams with clear focus on outcomes.

In this role, you will drive our integration engineering and technical excellence by applying Site Reliability Engineering practices. This is a hands-on technical role combining concrete integration engineering in SAP Cloud Platform Integration with broader technical excellence around SAP SuccessFactors as well as other solutions. You will help deliver the Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline with speed and reliability. The main outcomes are focused on enabling our delivery process to achieve stable, scalable and reliable software in production, having shorter feedback loops, better collaboration with development and enabling higher quality products.

We are a team of professionals with a shared passion for delivering outstanding consumer experiences through best-in-class solutions, working primarily within the Supply Chain domain. This role is a part of the next phase of Pandora’s transformation journey placing technology at the heart of evolving our business and delivering growth.

About You @Pandora: 

• Engineer robust integrations based on SAP Cloud Platform Integration and our internal Event-Driven Integration platform (based on Apache Kafka) applying best practice integration patterns as well as engineering standards
• Embed technical excellence into our Colleague Experience product line through hands-on Site Reliability Engineering in close collaboration with Solution Architecture
• You will work in an agile setting, assuming the responsibility for technical excellence, ensuring continuous focus on resilience, reliability, availability, capacity, performance, and continuity within the Colleague Experience product line
• Enable best-in-class practices, standards, and methodologies within the engineering team
• Implement and support Continuous Integration and Deployment Pipelines in the Release Management process around SAP Cloud Platform Integration
• Ensure high quality and reliability of data flows through the integrations using metrics, monitoring, automated testing and maintenance of the integrations.
• Develop technical documentation & artifacts to agreed engineering standards and SRE best practices in Pandora.

What is needed to succeed

• 5+ years of experience with SAP Cloud Platform integration and the holistic SAP ecosystem
• 3+ years of experience with scalable software architectures using Azure App Services, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration, microservice frameworks.
• 3+ years of experience in enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.
• 3+ years of experience in managing large-scale application in enterprise-wide environments.

• Deep domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions, networking technologies, Azure VMware service or similar.
• Hands on experience with Event Driven Architecture & cloud integration platforms such as Kafka/Solace processing high volumes of data across the technology stack.
• Experience in working and integrating with MQTT, REST APIs, web services and other modernized integration patterns.
• Building and orchestrating API standards, publish subscribe, machine-to-machine network protocols.
• Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains.

• One or more of the following programming languages: C++, C#, Java, JSON
• Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains
• Experience with automated testing and corresponding frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress or others)
• Experience with monitoring tools (i.e. NewRelic, Appdynamics, etc)
• Experience working with Oracle DB, Google BigQuery or SQL Server databases:  database right-sizing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Technology agnostic mindset.

Icing on the cake  

You will be working remotely in the global team, with ability to work in our beautiful office in Warsaw.

About Pandora

Pandora designs, manufactures and markets hand-finished and contemporary jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries on six continents through more than 7,500 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.
 

Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs more than 26,000 people worldwide of whom more than 11,500 are located in Thailand, where the Company manufactures its jewellery. PANDORA is publicly listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange in Denmark. In 2018, Pandora’s total revenue was DKK 22.8 billion (approximately EUR 3.1 billion).