Job Description

About the Unit

Yara is the world\'s largest producer of ammonia, nitrates and NPKs, offering solutions for sustainable agriculture respecting the environment. Our fertilizers and our crop nutrition programs were designed to help the sector of food production and to meet the needs of a growing world population. Our products and solutions help industry reduce emissions, improve air quality and prioritize effective operations safely.

Yara Africa & Asia (YAA) produces, sells, distributes and markets fertilizers and industrial products across Asia Pacific and Africa regions, with offices location and operational units in 20 countries. The region employs over 1800 employees and has a long history in the Asian Pacific and African markets, focusing on develop crop nutrition concepts that increase food production and create value to the growers, in particular smallholder farmers, whilst minimizing environmental impact of agricultural activities.

Responsibilities

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• Provide high level leadership and technical direction to the tech teams. Support complex technical problem solving as needed.
• Lead multiple squads of developers, quality engineers and solution architects across different technologies to plan and deliver product roadmap.
• Play a leadership role in technology selection, architecture and delivery governance to ensure that right commitments are being taken and the teams deliver to it.
• Set the department\'s engineering culture, measure its efficacy, and lead by example.
• Oversee the individual development needs of each person and ensure they are challenged and given scope to leverage and grow their strengths.
• Coordinate with other functional leads within the group to ensure that technical team members are working on the right priorities and projects.
• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and build a sense of urgency in a dynamic environment.
• Find, screen and develop new people as needed to support the needs of the digital team.

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or have a similar experience.
• 5+ years of software development management experience, preferably in delivering B2B and/or B2C products/services/content
• Ability to lead large digital technology teams with experience across end-to-end development of mobile and web apps (Android, iOS), comprising of permanent employees as well as vendor teams.
• Solid understanding of agile digital principles and development team strategies.
• Significant experience as a successful software development leader in large scale, highly available Internet and mobile applications. Experience working for a start-up or scale-up is preferred.
• Comfortable working with our languages and frameworks: Typescript, Node.js, Python, Postgres, GraphQL, ReactJS, ReactNative
• Comfortable working with our tools: AWS, Github, Kubernetes, Jira, Docker
• Aligned with our principles: agile, customer-centric, lean, service-oriented architecture, self-organization, transparency.
• Strong communication skills and can act as an advisor, coach, mentor, and partner all at the same time.

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