Head of Product Engineering

Head of Product Engineering - Network Architecture & Engineering

Joining Maersk will embark you on a transformational journey with great opportunities for career development within a global organization. As the Head of Network Product Engineering, you will lead on engineering world class network and perimeter platforms and products that enable our highly distributed global business for site, fleet, asset and IoT connectivity, required to deliver against our integrator business strategy.

You will be exposed to a wide and challenging range of needs and opportunities requiring you to engage closely with senior stakeholders across all management levels within Maersk as you mature, evolve and operate our portfolio of networking and perimeter capabilities.

The Brief

A globally focused shipping and transportation organisation is continuing to drive an ambitious and complex change and transformational programme to deliver a service of excellence for its customers and clients worldwide. The Global CTIO has a mandate from the Maersk board to lead the Technology transformation of Maersk which will enable the Maersk business strategy to become the global integrator of container logistics through digitising the Maersk business processes and customer engagement.

The Technology function is fundamental to enable the company’s transformation and in response to this demand, our in-house technological capability is growing exponentially. We are recruiting world class talent to ensure that the technology services are modernised to enable Maersk to become a logistics integrator leveraging a competitive advantage through technology.

Why this job matters?

The Network Architecture & Engineering function is pivotal to our transformation, it is a central team within Technology Services Engineering (TSE), responsible for the network and perimeter infrastructure engineering and the associated underpinning technology services which run and secure the technology engine of Maersk.

Reporting to the Director of Network Architecture & Engineering you will serve as Head of Network Product Engineering. This is a senior level role, responsible for the engineering delivery of the product roadmaps, technical vision, design build quality, deployment and L2-to-resolution in-life operation of network and perimeter platforms, products and capabilities provided centrally and loaclly to Maersk; including leadership of a team of specialists that underpin this function.

It has a critical role to play as we continue to develop our long-term multi-technology and multi-product network and perimeter capabilities, connecting our asset, sites and people on land and at sea. Delivering best in class global connectivity and perimeter services that not only meet the need of our business today but will be a differentiator, enabling our colleagues and partners with technology solutions that are a catalyst for productivity and innovation.

Scope

All data networks provided to Maersk across Core, Edge and Cloud locations (offices, warehouses, terminals, vessels, data centres, cloud etc), and the perimeter services that protect and enable them including but not limited to:

Specific Job Requirements

Collect, collate, analyse, develop and agree network and network-based services requirements (including process and organisation) relating to existing capabilities, new capabilities, future capabilities or additional network deployment and create the appropriate detailed network design, deployment and operational plans to meet those requirements both as an individual contributor and team lead.

Work across TSE, TOP, Cyber and the Business with supporting resources to define the specifications and perform impact assessments ensuring a collaborative approach and consensus agreement of the performance and customer experience parameters of the systems, network, perimeter and network-based services to be delivered.

Participate in discussions with internal stakeholders, to influence upstream product/application architectures and offerings, IT infrastructure standardisation and related non-functional requirements.

Lead NetSecOps initiatives to ensure that network and perimeter capabilities are easily consumable by TSE Product and the business “As-a-Service’ and are simultaneously compliant with Maersk technology architecture standards and security policies

Evaluation and recommendation as design standards, vendor hardware, software and managed service platforms providing underlay, overlay, systems and tooling capability across networks and perimeter driving feature addition where appropriate.

Provide subject matter expertise to the Service Design and OSS Engineering teams to steer the definition and creation of detailed network and perimeter infrastructure product models, solution and service designs

Development and global deployment of a common engineering design framework for all network and perimeter domains including governance to ensure cycle time, cost and quality of portfolio investments.

Own the associated horizontal CAPEX and OPEX budgets and develop a view on the network cost economics associated with designs that underpin bottom-up-builds and investment cases, working closely with Network Architecture and Network Portfolio Operations teams

Maintain a feedback loop between target designs and in-life network stabilization initiatives to agree no-regret spend, integration and or avoid technical debt

The role requires effective business value driven decision-making, accountability and oversight across the portfolio of network, perimeter and Instrumentation products and capabilities, along with embedding robust standards to life-cycle manage the supporting platforms through performance management and continuous improvement.

To be a successful technologist at Maersk, you must be passionate about building, enabling and sustaining our business, as well as inspiring and developing our people. Further, in this role you will:

What I'll be doing – your accountabilities?

Network Product Engineering – Design engineering of global network and perimeter infrastructure balancing the adoption of next generation technologies with mature solutions across Core, Edge and Cloud:

The Candidate

To be considered for this opportunity candidates will have the following capabilities.

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