Senior Development Architect

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact. 

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

• →Lead the development of scalable, efficient, and high-performance software solutions that meet enterprise and user requirements.
• →Lead the design and implementation of robust, scalable architectures for enterprise applications, selecting the appropriate technologies to ensure high performance and maintainability.
• →Lead the development of clean, efficient, and well-documented code, adhering to best practices, coding standards, and performing regular code reviews to ensure consistency and quality across the team.
• →Lead collaborations with designers, product managers, and QA testers to ensure a cohesive development process that meets both technical and business objectives.
• →Lead the integration with various enterprise systems such as ERP, Supply Chain Planning systems, or other cloud-based applications to support seamless data exchange and functionality.
• →Lead code reviews, providing constructive feedback to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability in all development projects.
• →Mentor and direct the work of junior developers by providing technical guidance, coaching, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the development team.

•        Develop future-proof technical designs for complex enterprise software

•        Give technical guidance for specific software development projects while keeping the big picture across projects in mind.

•        Establish technical priorities and strategies consistent with business goals and economic viability.

•        Research options and propose software designs that solve immediate needs of the organization while including new and emerging technologies and anticipating future changes.

•        Successfully delivery of detailed technical designs and artefacts across multiple integrated technologies and platforms, in accordance with stage gates, milestones, and business objectives: This includes conceptual work, reviews, trouble-shooting, and coding.

Global Research & develop significant parts of a solution which is a cornerstone for the digitization of Brambles

This position is responsible for researching technologies, analyzing and designing frameworks, and building

and maintaining supply chain applications for the digitization of Brambles and as services to improve the

supply chains of Brambles’ customers.

The success and viability of these applications depends to a large extent on a well-defined modular and

layered architecture, with corresponding semantic concepts, especially

•        5+ years of experience in software development – or proven, exceptional software design contributions in previous positions

•        Must have acquired deep understanding through practical real-world experience in different software technologies, ideally across the software stack including (Web) user interfaces, algorithm development, different types of data management technologies, and the design of data models.

•        Hands-on expertise in multiple programming languages such as Go, Python, SQL, C, C++ and/or JavaScript, TypeScript, Svelte

•        Must have worked on major modules of applications were deployed to customers and helped these go live

•        Experience technically directing a group of software developers to meet a common goal with successful outcome

•        Experience technically influencing a group of software developers to meet a common goal with successful outcome

Substantial software development and design expertise with large and complex systems, ideally in enterprise software, real-time applications and specifically around supply chain management or geographical information systems

Formal:  At least a bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, science, engineering, statistics or mathematics

Beyond this baseline, software development experience and proven success is more important than formal education. However, large and complex systems also arise in university research, so a Master’s Degree or Ph.D. can be a plus.

•        Excellent understanding of enterprise applications, cloud computing, algorithms on large data sets, and user interface technologies

•        Knowledge of Supply Chain and Logistics applications

•        Proven technical leadership in multiple complex software projects

•        Expertise in analyzing and designing for performance of large-scale software systems

•        Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts into understandable terms to different teams in the organization including non-technical product managers

•        Thorough understanding of technology trends in Enterprise software and beyond, and the ability to analyze the potential impact or benefit for the software projects of the Digital team

•        Proven ability in coaching and mentoring others