Senior Specialist, Tech Strategy - Logistics (all genders)

Be our next Hero! - Join the world’s leading local delivery platform.

We are looking for a Senior Specialist, Tech Strategy - Logistics (all genders) to join the Global Logistics team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

As a Senior Specialist, you will work hands-on with cross-functional technical teams and senior stakeholders to achieve broad company objectives.

You will sit in a team that works closely with our SVP & Senior Tech Management, driving top management agenda from strategic planning to successful delivery.
 

If you're a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

Your Mission: 

• You own and drive complex Tech & Product initiatives & programs that span across different cross functional teams and domains 

• You help Tech senior management execute strategic initiatives focusing on our 4 pillars: Reliability, Security, Productivity & Cost-efficiency 

• Using your problem-solving, communication, project management know-how and technical knowledge, you will help product and engineering leads bring complex changes to life  

• You ensure transparency of project performance through your own reporting and KPIs. You own & communicate the progress regularly to senior management and project stakeholders

• You help foster an Engineering excellence mindset and support the continuous improvement loop on engineering practices

• You consolidate and distribute best practices, while also innovating and challenge existing processes to drive impactful change within the Logistics organization

Your heroic skills:

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience in Technical project or program management, delivery lead and or cross-team Tech Lead 

• A proven track record in leading Technical programs at a multinational fast paced organization

• Ideally you have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent. We are looking for someone who has a strong technical background

• Good understanding and previous working experience with Agile practices in software engineering teams

• You have experience with technical documentation and can expertly navigate tools like Confluence, Github, JIRA highly confidently

• Excellent Risk and dependency management skills

• You are great with people. Collaborating and negotiating with stakeholders to achieve strategic objectives comes naturally to you

• Structured and highly organized way of working. Project tools, trackers & other dynamic ways to monitor progress are no stranger to you

• Fluency in English is required as our working language

Nice to have:

• General understanding of cyber security practices and compliance frameworks

• Good understanding of software development life cycle CI / CD, relational database fundamentals, data streaming services and hands-on experience with tools we use is a plus:

  • Programming languages: Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, etc.

  • Tools: Drone CI, Spinnaker, Helm, Kubernetes, etc.

Who We Are: As the world’s leading local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech but driven by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable ambitious talent to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.

What's in it for you: 

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank,  Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life &