Job Description

About DHL IT Services & Digital Platforms
At DHL IT Services, we're designing, building and running IT solutions for the whole DPDHL globally. Millions of people who ship their packages, countless businesses we support with logistics services and 550k colleagues - all running from our datacenters with thousands of servers and applications.

This naturally means a lot of digitalization - our key priority for the coming years, deeply embedded in strategies across the company. Simply, we recognize digitalization as the biggest opportunity since globalization. Digital Platforms is a new "fresh out of the oven" department, where we can address this digitalization theme much more closely. There, you will find topics like APIs, Blockchain, Internet of Things, Data Lake & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Automation and more. We're designing, prototyping, building - but also running and supporting cutting-edge digital solutions for our customers and employees. We're very excited to see the positive impact of our work - but also recognize the potential is much larger. Therefore, we need you!

How we work:

We like to do everything in an Agile/DevOps way. No more throwing the "problem code" to support, no silos. Our teams are completely product oriented, having end to end responsibility for a success of a product in development and in production. Typically, you would find roles like DevOps Engineers, Product Managers and Scrum Masters only. Same people, taking care of the full stack of infrastructure, application, but also the business side of the product.

The day-to-day work is typically organized using Scrum, so stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, estimating story points, working in impediments, iterating on the product, deploying many times etc. Like in any other company, it's not Scrum 100% by the book, but we try to live the principles of the Agile manifesto and have a culture of trying to get better every day, embracing failures if they happen - they're great learnings, too!

The development is following DevOps culture, so, whatever one builds, he/she supports in Production in case of issues. There's also space for exploration, as the product and customer need to be continuously developed, so we work with startups and other enterprises to stay on the cutting edge and cherry-pick what makes sense.

About Our IoT team:

Our mission in the IoT Team is "Providing a platform for DPDHL which accelerates the adoption of IoT for the purpose of operational excellence, customer experience and employee safety"

In our IoT world, we are building a state-of-the-art global platform, which processes the data from millions of connected devices from various DPDHL business units across the globe. We then develop use cases over the IoT platform to monitor our assets, shipments, warehouse equipment and many more in in real-time and finally present the actionable insights to the user the help of cool UX designs.

Tech Stack: Our IoT platform is based on Microsoft Azure cloud-based infrastructure harnessing the collection of managed and platform services across edge and cloud to securely connect, monitor, and control millions of IoT assets. Our micro-services-based architecture coupled with Azure DevOps pipeline enables continuous integration and delivery.

The Team: Like our company, our team is quite global. We have technical teams located at Chennai, Berlin and Bonn. To help us collaborate better, we are using tools like Teams, Jira, Confluence or Mural, too. You will find a nice mix of motivated people, typically geeks who are passionate about technology and are reading about IT after work anyway J But most importantly, we are a team who supports each other even in tough times and who tries to make things better every day. We'd be happy to support you too on your journey with us!

What you will do:

• Participate and drive Agile product development to solve our challenging business requirements.
• Take over the technical and methodological leadership of an agile development team(s). In your team you have several developers with different levels of experience.
• Take care of the adherence to our methodical (agile) practices and ensure the adherence to the development process. Together with your team you work out the delivery planning and ensure its implementation.
• Keep an eye on the budget.
• Elegantly remove obstacles and thus keep your team's focus for delivering business value.
• Advise your stakeholders on the complexity and scope of the planning with your communication skills and sure instinct.
• Deal with cross-company topics. Here we count on your advice and active support. If necessary, we also need your expertise for recruiting new, excellent colleagues.
• You will be an important part of our team to ensure that teams lives up to agile values and principles.

What you should have:

• Solid professional experience in leading agile development teams in software development, including mentoring junior colleagues.
• Passion and profound knowledge of agile methods (Scrum/Kanban).
• Very good communication and moderation skills: Empathy and appreciative communication are important to us.
• Should be expert in facilitating Scrum ceremonies and coaching Product Owner(s) on how to prioritize the backlog, write effective user stories.
• Experienced in using Agile tools like Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps.
• It would be nice if Continuous Delivery and test-driven development are not foreign words for you.

Does it sound a bit like you? Let's talk!

We don't expect a superman from the day 1; we want to give a proper learning space, too. What's really needed, however, is passion for great customer experience and can-do mindset.

We would love to hear from you; our new department is rapidly growing and we're looking for many people to join us on our digitalization journey. Thank you for considering DHL as the next step in your career - we do believe we can make a difference together!