Wat je gaat doen

NN is changing to an innovative product-oriented company. Our goal is to build technological products and services that our customers love. This requires highly skilled professionals who are organized in empowered product teams and who love to develop themselves continuously. This is where you come in. You are the great people inspirator who helps these engineers to bring out the best in themselves.

The Engineering Experience and Platforms domain within NN is responsible for optimizing the NN engineering experience by delivering a frictionless and integrated engineering journey through the Internal Developer Platform and supporting the software delivery lifecycle with CI/CD solutions. While also offering several reliable platforms that provide integration or hosting solutions (e.g. API Gateway and Kubernetes). Thereby enabling the business units to optimize costs, time to production, security and compliance. Enabling them to shift focus to delivering business value.

We serve DevOps teams within NN globally and we can measure our success using the DORA metrics (amongst others). We are successful when DevOps teams optimize their performance on: deployment frequency, change lead time, change failure rate, mean time to recover.

In the role of Engineering Manager for Engineering Experience and Platforms you will be responsible for building a great product organization and workforce that helps the domain achieve its product vision and maximize value for its users. You address the need for the growth of robust product engineering practices and a skilled engineering workforce in your product domain and act as an enabler for the digital transformation.

Your responsibilities:

You effectively manage the NN’s People Cycle process and use the NN HR conversations, processes and tools to manage staffing, hiring, selection, onboarding and retention
You define the objectives for and with the team, including development paths for skills and team maturity
Creating a Strategic Workforce Planning for the team composition in line with the product strategy
Establish Objectives and quarterly Key Results on learning and development together with the domain’s leadership team (e.g. Product Manager, Product Owners and domain architect)
Empower teams by removing impediments
You develop and evolve the engineers based on your technical experience and craftmanship
You help build the right culture by organizing engagement among engineers, make sure they have fun in their job and learning new skills becomes normal. Also you ensure the teams create a mindset of solving customer problems and delivering product value
You guide the team towards modern engineering and help ensure product quality

Wat wij jou bieden

NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer you:

Salary between €6.219 and €8.884 (based on 40 hours), depending on your knowledge and experience
13th month and holiday allowance are paid with your monthly salary
27 vacation days for a 5-day working week and one Diversity Day
A modern pension administered by BeFrank
Plenty of training and learning opportunities
NS Business Card 2nd class, which gives you unlimited travel, also privately. Do you prefer to travel with your own transport? Then you can declare the kilometers travelled
Allowances for setting up your home office and for internet use

Wat je meebrengt

You bring a positive mindset and energy, which makes you an inspiration to work with. You always have new ideas, you see possibilities and learn from situations. Furthermore, you recognize yourself in (multiple) of the following skills and experiences:

At least 10+ years of relevant work experience as engineer. You are well informed about the latest technologies and use your own skills and expertise to coach and train your engineers
3-5 years of experience in leading and managing a team of engineers
An endless drive to help people grow and provide new opportunities to learn
You make an effort to understand other people’s perspectives and long-term ambitions
You provide regular feedback to others. You help them with insights on their effectiveness of their performance
You stay informed on the latest developments in your area of expertise and effectively use this information in a long-term perspective

Met wie je werkt

You will working very closely together in your product domain with Product Manager and Product Owner. You will also find your place in our engineering team which has a variety of backgrounds and cultures. We embrace diversity as an instrument to produce an even richer experience for both colleagues and customers.

NN wants to be an industry leader, known for our customer engagement, talented people and contribution to society. The world around us may change, but what truly matters to people stays the same. We help people care for what matters most to them. The company is currently transitioning towards a tech company with strong focus on automation and creating the best digital products for our customers, and this is the perfect moment to join and help shape that movement.

In our domain, we really value our culture and nourish it at every opportunity. Team events are regularly organized. During our latest events we did airsofting, go-karting, game days, had a Christmas event and did several dinners with the teams.