Skill Chapter Lead – Foundation Workplace

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead coach and develop a diverse team of 30 international professionals supporting their performance management and career growth;
• Develop strategies for future oriented capability evolution fostering a culture of learning collaboration and innovation;
• Define and enforce best practices standards methodologies ensuring consistent technical approaches fostering a culture of learning collaboration and innovation;
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to squads and platforms contributing to design council decisions and ABR requests (incl. budget input);
• Drive operational stability and security hardening accordingly in line with relevant technology KPIs;
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies enabling their adoption at METRO;
• Contribute with technical expertise to roadmaps and strategies;
• Ensure effective allocation of chapter members to squads based on skills and priorities;
• Collaborate with other skill chapter leads squad leads and senior management to align on strategic initiatives and drive the success of squad business goals;
• Manage chapter operations and administration ensuring smooth day-to-day functioning.

Qualifications :

• University degree in Computer Science Engineering or another relevant field;
• Proven work experience in engineering leadership roles such as Engineering Manager or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams ideally within Workplace and/or IT Service domains or in other business and technology areas with transferable leadership and technical expertise.
• Understanding of Modern Workplace technologies including Microsoft 365 Endpoint Management (Intune) and workplace security practices.
• Demonstrated experience in management of topics combining business and IT needs;
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational engagement - staying close to engineering teams to understand challenges and support effective outcomes;
• Strong leadership competence with management responsibility for international teams across different locations with different cultural backgrounds (experience in matrix organizations is a plus);
• Experience in defining and managing common standards and ways of working in a complex and dynamic environment;
• Excellent communication coaching and stakeholder management skills;
• Very good English language skills (written and verbal);

Additional Information :

What we offer at  

• Hybrid and agile work: thrive in a flexible multicultural environment.

At we promote work-life balance through a hybrid working model. Youll be part of self-organizing multicultural teams that collaborate in an agile setup.

• People development: when you grow so do we!

We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and company-wide programs and trainings for people development. Focused among other on development leadership appreciation ... its time to upskill your career.

• Support with individual solutions: we are people-caring!

We offer support whenever you need it - at every stage of your professional journey.

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Position grade within our career framework: Skill Chapter Lead Md8

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time