ABOUT THE JOB As a Head Of Technology, you will be responsible for leadership of the IT members of several cross-functional, agile teams, overseeing the shaping, development, delivery, and operation of business-critical initiatives, products, and services.
Your key responsibility is to the people you support, ensuring that they are growing within their area of expertise, acquiring new skills, doing valuable work, working well together, and feeling engaged and supported.
You will be responsible (dependent on market jurisdiction rules) for identifying and recruiting new talent into your team, coaching and mentoring existing and new team members, performance management, and active career development.
You will focus on increasing the autonomy of your teams, enabling effective decision-making, and fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
You and your teams will be responsible for the full development lifecycle and/or operation, as well as working with other teams and stakeholders, such as business executives, to remove impediments and achieve business outcomes.
You will focus on continuously improving ways of working within and between teams and enhancing cross-team collaboration and engagement across Technology and Business communities.
You will manage relationships with key partners and suppliers, ensuring that third-party deliveries are completed in line with business needs and in accordance with the domain technology standards and strategy.
You will maintain a strong understanding of the bigger picture, think ahead, and understand the overall business strategy, using these insights to shape people, delivery, and technology strategy for your area.
Where applicable, you will actively support a DevSecOps approach to building and releasing features while constantly optimizing the delivery of business value at pace.
You will ensure we have the delivery capacity, capabilities, and team culture to deliver business outcomes sustainably and with the right level of quality from the outset.
You will have full budget and cost responsibility for your teams in terms of delivery and operating costs, including budget planning, cost management, and cost tracking. In collaboration with Technology Leads and Product Leads, you will strive to continue to improve delivery and operational efficiency.
You will have a strong background in leading cross-functional, diverse technology teams (onshore and near/offshore) in an international context, working with senior technology and business stakeholders, and managing large-scale network technology stacks.
You will advocate and advance modern software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices across the domain.
ABOUT YOU An experienced authentic servant leader with a passion for technology.
Passionate about technology delivery practices, delivering business value, and driving continuous improvement.
Passionate about organization and technology transformation, with special emphasis on transforming from traditional network capabilities into cloud-native technologies.
Strong experience delivering and operating digital products and services (in an agile development environment) at pace and at a global scale.
Good grasp of experience with the respective technology stack, e.g., design and operations of network technology, both on-premises and on cloud platforms; operation and management of user networks, data center networks, retail shop networks, internet connectivity, corporate backbone, virtual private networks, domain name services, and network protection assets.
Good understanding of software engineering practices and how to support them from within your area of responsibility (e.g., design patterns, micro-services, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and operational (SRE) principles and practices).
Loves developing and growing people and has a strong track record doing it.
Customer-focused with a passion for operational excellence. Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers and other technology roles from different cultural backgrounds.
Quality mindset, delivering high-quality products and supporting others to achieve and maintain a high standard.
Systems thinker with a strong understanding of business needs and the ability to manage a range of priorities and delegate effectively.
Great communicator and facilitator comfortable working across organizational and market boundaries and managing senior stakeholders; able to disagree yet align.
Open-minded, inquisitive, life-long learner.
Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous.
OUR OFFER Being a valuable team member of TUI, the No.1 global and socially aware travel company. Competitive salary and benefits. Smart working (Flexible hours) and the possibility of working remotely up to 100% or Hybrid from one of our offices. Develop yourself as part of a friendly, richly diverse, and virtual international team. If you want to know more about why TUI Group is the world's leading tourism group and our continuing work in the diversity & inclusion space, simply visit careers.tuigroup.com.
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