Senior Engineering Manager - Transport Network Optimisation

You will be part of the Transported by Maersk Platform focused on streamlining, optimizing, and automating our transportation network end-2-end via advanced software solutions.

Senior Engineering Manager - Transport Network Optimisation and Automation - Copenhagen, Denmark (Hybrid)

Join our team at Transported by Maersk Platform, where we're revolutionizing our transportation network with cutting-edge software solutions. As part of our network design and optimization platform, you'll lead a talented team of decision scientists, data scientists, and software engineers. Your focus will be on creating advanced optimization engines for our large-scale multimodal network.

In this role, you'll drive the development of high-performance algorithms, tackling exciting technical challenges to deliver optimal network designs efficiently. Your expertise in AI at scale, coupled with a passion for combining decision science and data science, will fuel the creation of groundbreaking technology. With a keen eye for team dynamics and a growth mindset, you'll foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.

Working within a vibrant decision and data science community, you'll collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to build end-to-end applications. Your partnership with business stakeholders will ensure that our tools seamlessly integrate into existing processes, empowering smarter decisions and enhancing our global network's efficiency.

You'll play a pivotal role in developing modern cloud-based software products, embedding core decision support tools to drive efficiencies in planning and executing our global network. If you're ready to make a significant impact in optimizing transportation networks and shaping the future of logistics, join us in this exciting opportunity!

Key responsibilities

Build, direct and enable a high performing team through great people leadership skills.

Engage business and technology stakeholders with data and metrics to identify and drive initiatives that deliver business and societal value through superior reliability, reduced carbon emissions and cost efficient network designs.

Deliver custom implemented models and algorithms together with the team.

Work closely with interdependent Engineering Managers to produce required design specifications to enable high performance end-2-end solutions that meets business needs and decision processes.

Working with Product Managers to continuously deliver on the product backlog while influencing product roadmap with opportunities to deliver business value with advanced algorithms.

Continuously work with the team and product managers to manage technical debt and technology trade-offs to deliver flexible, high quality production code for the optimization engines.

Introduce robust optimization techniques in the volatile world of global supply chains.

Continuously stay up-to-date on relevant technologies and use this knowledge to push the team forward.

We are looking for

High interest in engineering, mathematics, or computer science with a good understanding of advanced algorithms and computational performance. Familiarity and experience with heuristics, mathematical modelling and machine learning is a plus.

A great people leader with a proactive growth mindset

Experience with Python, C++, or C# to contribute to development by mentoring, coaching and code reviewing with the team in a git workflow

An expert in agile workflows adapted to development of advanced algorithms

A person comfortable with brainstorming and idea generation

An interest in driving business outcomes through technology

Experience with machine learning, optimization under uncertainty and the business domain of shipping is an advantage

The Transported by Maersk Platform is a geographically distributed initiative, with world-class engineering teams in Denmark (Copenhagen), Spain (Algeciras), and India (Bangalore, Pune), and end users and stakeholders situated all over the globe - you will be part of this international and diverse organization consisting of highly talented and motivated people from across the world.

We offer an exciting and attractive career in an ambitious and competitive environment, with the possibility of continuous professional and personal development. As part of ensuring a successful work-life balance we promote flexible work-hours and the possibility to work from home when at all possible taking both the employee’s and the company’s interests into consideration.

As a performance-oriented company, we strive to always recruit the best person for the job - regardless of gender, age, nationality, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high-performing teams.

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