Job title:
Engineering Manager(Frontend) HU
Company:
VML
Job description
Frontend Engineering Manager needed to join our team here at VML Budapest.What you’ll be doing:
- Line management of our Front-End team including conducting career development reviews, providing career guidance and performance management.
- Developing talent and nurturing innovation within our teams by holding chapter events and encouraging common approaches and knowledge transfer between our projects, focussing on advanced FE techniques and patterns.
- Working with our FE technical leads to encourage the adoption of new technologies and to constantly improve our existing ways of working.
- Management of resourcing across projects, matching and assigning team members to appropriate roles, attending resourcing meetings and liaising with our Account Directors, Project and Programme managers as appropriate.
- Making smart team assignments by assigning, directing, and evaluating the work of our FE team on their various projects and overseeing the development and maintenance of staff competence.
- Recruiting talent for your team: selection, testing, interviewing and maintaining the right employee blend
- Team development and staff retention through hiring, mentoring (including succession planning) as well as the planning L&D strategy for your team and working with our People team to ensure it is delivered.
- Creating standards, processes and reference solutions for the engineering and technical work performed in the department in conjunction with the Head of Commerce Engineering
- Perform administrative functions such as reviewing and writing reports, approving expenses, undertaking contract reviews, and making decisions about the purchase of tools or 3rd party services.
- Supporting our presales team including presenting and explaining our skills/approaches and delivering proposals, reports, and findings to clients.
- Set strategic and technical goals to support objectives provided by senior management.
- In conjunction with your teams identify and set out best practice guidelines and reviewing team output to ensure adherence and consistency.
- Promote the benefits of good Front End engineering practices and act as a champion for the engineering team both within VML Budapest, the wider VML Enterprise Solution organisation and externally.
- Review and challenge our processes to help us continually improve efficiency and quality
- Ensuring all team members have appropriate certification and maintain a register of skills for the team.
What we want from you:
- Excellent understanding of the process, challenges and pitfalls of delivering Front End projects, particularly around head full implementations in Contentful, Shopify, Sitecore, Drupal,
- In depth knowledge of development practices within the Software Delivery Lifecycle, ideally within a Commerce environment
- Experience of leading and managing Front End developers
- Experience in interviewing and assessment of candidates at all levels, ensuring both technical capability and person fit to create high functioning, happy teams
- Ability to drive change in a given programme or project and be able to articulate the benefits of change
- Be an advocate for quality processes and understand industry recognised Best Practices
- Be experienced in code and unit test reviews and have experience of using static analysis tools and make recommendations in this area
- Have a good knowledge of Agile development delivery practices and how these affect your team
- Have strong communication skills and can work with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure the Engineering team vision is understood and implemented correctly.
- Being an adaptable, proactive, opinionated quick thinker who can deliver under pressure when needed
- The ability to motivate a team, recognise rising talent and bring out the best out of each individual
- Excellent communicator, influencing skills and negotiation skills to get management buy-in on ideas and concepts
- Having a can-do attitude and picking up whichever tasks help our teams and projects, self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Excellent planning and work prioritisation skill
- The ability to remain calm in high pressured environments
If you know some of this, even better:
- Experience working with differing delivery methodologies including Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall Approach
- Experience of managing suppliers and have evidence of increasing the value received
- Development background or hands-on experience of front end development
In return, this is what you can expect from us:
- Hybrid way of working (2 office days, 3 days working from home)
- Private health insurance package (for employees working with us for a year and more)
- International and in-house training possibilities
- Education budget to suit your own development
- International projects
- Diverse teams (in 2023 our office has the the ‘Most diverse Company’ special award in the Loveable Workplace competition)
And there’s more:
- Kid and dog friendly office
- Annual team building days and many fun events
- Award-winning and well-equipped office
Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.#LI-EMEA #LI-HYBRID #LI-AS1
Expected salary
Location
Magyarország
Job date
Sat, 04 Jan 2025 07:32:33 GMT
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