Director of Engineering (gn) - Transaction Services

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Director of Engineering (gn) - Transaction Services

Hi, I'm Martin, CIO at Unite, and I'm looking for a Director of Engineering (gn) for our Transaction Services IT Domain, containing all IT services from order intake to delivery. If you are interested in becoming part of an IT management team that takes on all the challenges of a growing and international IT department, then we are looking for you!

Your role

• IT Domain Leadership: You’ll lead around 20 Software Engineers, SAP Developers and Delivery Leads, organised remotely in3 teams, thereby promoting a culture of technical excellence, learning, and responsible operations.
• People development: You’ll promote a growth mindset and support team members’ development through continuous feedback.
• AI enablement: You’ll support your engineers in adopting AI as an integral part of the software development process.
• Capability steering: You’ll align your domain engineering capacity, skills, and operating model with strategic product and platform roadmaps, ensuring your teams have clear missions, measurable outcomes, and the competencies to achieve them.
• Domain-specific expertise: You’ll support your engineers in identifying and tackling technical challenges in your domain to improve efficiency in development and reliability in operating the software stack.
• Operational responsibility: You’ll be a part of IT management and, together with the management team, will be responsible for the strategic and operational development of the entire Analytics & IT department.
• Collaborative mindset: You’re a team player, making decisions based on cooperation and embracing the agile values.
• Leadership: You cultivate a cooperative and empathetic leadership style and have experience in leading software engineers.
• Profound expertise: You have experience in the conception, implementation and management of large-scale backend development projects, preferably in the e-commerce or e-procurement sector.
• You have a good understanding of software architecture, with expertise in Java or JVM-based technology stacks. Experience with SAP is a nice-to-have.
• Inspire and drive progress: You stay ahead of change, communicate direction with confidence, and empower your team to execute our strategy together.
• International mindset: You’re fluent in English and German, think internationally and feel comfortable in a multicultural environment.

What you can expect from us

• Supportive ownership culture: We offer a culture built on ownership, continuous learning, and genuine collaboration, where everyone supports one another to grow and excel.
• Where your ideas truly matter: A high degree of creative freedom in a committed environment where our employees use modern technology to further develop the leading B2B platform.
• We think long-term: That’s why you’re given room to grow, supported by our Academy and Udemy offerings to continuously develop your skills.
• We offer flexible work location: You can work in one of our modern Unite offices, hybrid or remotely.
• We care about work-life balance: We offer flexible working hours and 30+ holidays so you can strike a good balance between your work and personal life.

We are Unite.

We connect the economy for sustainable business. Our trusted e-procurement platform, with its integrated marketplace, enables effortless sourcing and purchasing for B2B and public sector organisations. Bringing buyers and suppliers together for mutual benefit, we’ve established a solid foundation of fair competition and trustworthy partnerships. Our platform’s scalable infrastructure supports connections, business stability and a robust supply chain. We revolutionise procurement for B2B and the public sector by adding and sharing value for markets and communities. In 2022, we became the first platform business accredited with the Fair Tax Mark, representing the global standard for responsible tax conduct. Would you like to become a part of Unite? Our company was founded as Mercateo in 2000, and the headquarters is located in Leipzig, Germany. We operate in 12 European countries, with over 700 employees working both in-office and remotely. In 2024, we achieved revenue of €448.7 million. For more information, visit unite.eu.