As the Engineering Manager Sales Force Automation (SFA), your role is to oversee a team, developing in-house products, guiding technical strategy, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will need to understand the business needs, and work with business stakeholders.

• leading the transition of our existing Sales Force Automation (SFA) technology to our future tech stack, including enabling the transition paths for our existing live OpCos
• owning the Software Development Engineering (SDE) organization that is delivering eazle – our new global digital platform
• leading a team of experienced SDE Leads, and their SDEs Teams in designing, developing, and delivering scalable, reliable, and high performing software solutions
• hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and developing top software engineering talents, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement – across different cultural backgrounds
• driving operational excellence, including code reviews, design reviews, testing, and deployment processes, to ensure high-quality software delivery
• elevating the Engineering build / ship mindset at HEINEKEN as frontrunner
• overseeing team spirit and being responsible for key hiring decisions
• implementing good practices, coding standards and modern architecture for DevSecOps, helping to develop new internal DevOps organization as well
• inspiring, advising, and driving the selection of development approach for specific product
• coordinating software development and address technical debt
• forming a view on GenAI application in our SDE practice
• managing team budgets, incl. outsourcing partners
• organizing and / or participating in hackathons.

• have excellent written and verbal English
• get energized form daily new challenges across tech, business, stakeholders, etc.
• have 8+ years of the experience as technology manager, with hands-on mindset and strong personality.
• like to ship secure (!) software, a lot and with major impact and fast throughput
• believe in headless architecture setups and the composable MACH software movement
• work withing set Enterprise Architecture guidance and boundaries
• have demonstrated experience in leading multiple teams of SDE Leads, and SDEs (ICs)
• have in-depth knowledge of and experience (> 8yrs) in modern frontend technology, and related Backend systems / services, like Microsoft Dynamics 365
• have worked in modular architecture, microservices, micro frontends, etc.
• are a performance tuning expert, to maximize entire stack and edges
• are proficient in heavy stakeholder engagement
• manage both outsourced / insourced teams
• are pragmatic, and collaborative team player.