About Wehkamp
We want to become the #1 in the minds and hearts of families in the Netherlands. That is our vision. Our mission is to make the life of families in the Netherlands more beautiful and easy. Enabling new customers promises the most effective and efficient way. That is the North star of Technology. We focus on how to activate and support the organization and teams in the most effective and efficient way. An e-commerce organization is an ecosystem: we make promises to our customers and we have to keep those promises. We do this together. Join the Wehkamp Tech team now!
We are looking for a Tech Lead.
Job description
The Tech Lead is responsible for a number of IT teams. The teams consist of developers, testers and analysts and are responsible for developments and maintenance of parts of the IT landscape.
How can you make the difference?
- As a Tech Lead you support the teams in their continuous improvement. You encourage the team to find creative alternatives to issues. You support the team in defining the question, clarifying the objectives, thinking along in possible solutions and experimenting with the various solutions. You facilitate deep dives and root cause analysis, in order to learn together;
- You feel comfortable helping and supporting your colleagues in the teams to achieve personal and / or developmental goals;
- You are the support for your teams and you facilitate during and after (larger) incidents. During incidents you dare to make decisions and you facilitate teams where needed to shorten the solution time where possible. After the incidents, you take the lead to secure all learnings in your teams. We expect you to participate in an escalation standby for SRE / chain management;
- You are the counterpart from Technology to the product owner (and business owner) and based on your knowledge you give them insight into Technology principles and choices;
- You ensure the correct composition of your teams (capabilities and capacity), guarantee the quality of your team and you are responsible for both recruiting new employees and for the performance management of the employees in the team you have;
- Together with your fellow Tech Leads you contribute to the long-term vision and goals of Technology;
- You support the acquisition, development and nurturing of talent. On an individual level you coach employees in achieving their own North Star. Within the team and Technology-wide you stimulate the sharing of knowledge and skills;
- You support the Product Owner by drawing up technical requirements for the work to be carried out by the team;
- You are responsible for organizing technical refinements with the team.
- You report to one of the Heads of Technology and manage a number of Tech teams.
Qualifications
What do you have?
- Bachelor degree work and thinking level;
- A completed education in ICT or comparable relevant work experience;
- You propagate our principles in everything you do;
- You are a real team player;
- You have experience in leading teams and coaching employees or would like to learn how to do so;
- Your analytical skills are very well developed and you know how to distinguish main from side issues;
- You have a good understanding of working in Scrum and Agile principles. Preferably you have a PSM I certification;
- You know your way around microservices, the cloud and you are familiar with one (or more) programming languages in such a way that you can help the teams on their way.
- You have experience in a 24/7 operation, preferably in an e-commerce environment.
What we offer
You become part of the Wehkamp Tech Hub. Working at the Tech Hub means working in an innovative and inspiring high-tech working environment. In our new head office, the Wehkamp Tech Hub has its own environment with plenty of room for collaboration, learning from each other and presenting results.
Please check out: https://medium.com/wehkamp-techblog
Other benefits
- Possibility to work mostly remote;
- Competitive salary;
- 10.5% holiday allowance;
- Bonus;
- 30 holiday days;
- Profit sharing;
- Onsite gym;
- Pension scheme;
- Discounts on additional health insurance;
- Room for growth;
- Staff discount on almost the entire range of Wehkamp.
Application process
Het proces voor deze vacature ziet het proces er als volgt uit:
- Sluiten jouw verwachtingen en onze wensen op elkaar aan? Dan maken we graag kennis met je;
- Wanneer jij en wij enthousiast zijn plannen we een uitgebreide kennismaking met je in.
- Na deze kennismaking hoor je zo snel mogelijk van ons of we je als onze collega zien. In dat geval doen we je een aanbod. Wanneer dat niet zo is, dan krijg je uiteraard goede feedback van ons waar je wat mee kan.