Engineering Manager

ENGINEERING MANAGER

R&D - Dusseldorf, Germany - Full Time

Centric Software is looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our growing planning team in Germany. This is a remote role, based within Germany. The successful candidate should provide solution and technical skills in a fast-moving environment. You will need to be a leader, quick thinking and driven to provide planning solutions that deliver value to our clients. You will be working directly with our clients, internal and external partners to lead the technical design and configuration requirements to provide best practice planning architecture.

Job Summary:

Join our team and help us revolutionize the fashion and lifestyle industry by empowering retailers and brands to optimize their prices and inventory across channels. We are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead one of our cross-functional engineering teams in delivering high-quality, impactful products. In this role, you will oversee technical execution, manage the product development lifecycle, and ensure the team delivers value on time and in high quality. You will work closely with product managers to support the discovery process and provide technical guidance throughout the product lifecycle. Your team will include experts in software engineering, data engineering, data science, and quality assurance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and support a diverse team of engineers, fostering their technical growth and career development. Provide regular feedback, encourage collaboration, and inspire the team to achieve high performance and excellence.
• Technical Leadership & Decision-Making: Establish and guide the technical direction of your team, empowering them to make key architectural decisions aligned with the company's broader goals. Foster a culture of continuous improvement by driving best practices in development, testing, and release management.
• Delivery Process Ownership: Take full ownership of delivering projects with efficiency and quality, managing the entire software development lifecycle. Optimize workflows, streamline processes, and ensure timely delivery of high-impact features.
• Risk Management & Problem Solving: Proactively identify potential risks, both technical and operational, and create strategies to mitigate them. Actively solve complex problems and unblock the team when necessary, ensuring that the team's focus remains on high-impact work.

Qualifications:

• Experience: At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership or engineering management role, ideally within a cross-functional team environment. Experience working with data scientists and data engineers is a strong plus.
• Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in software development, with experience across multiple programming languages. Experience with SaaS products and a strong understanding of data-driven applications is a plus.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers, helping them achieve both technical excellence and career growth. Experience in leading teams in managing change and supporting their continuous improvement.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across teams and engage with stakeholders effectively. Clear communicator, capable of articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Decision-Making & Problem-Solving: Strong ability to make informed technical decisions, balancing business goals with technical constraints. Excellent problem-solving skills with a data-driven, analytical approach to resolving challenges.
• Bias for Action & Continuous Improvement: A proactive, action-oriented mindset with a focus on driving results and continuous improvement within the team and the organization.

What We Offer:

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as the opportunity to work on challenging projects that will help you grow your technical skills. Our remote work environment is built on collaboration, flexibility, and respect, and we are committed to providing ongoing training and professional development opportunities for our team members. Join us in shaping the future of retail technology!

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.

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