Fuchs Lubricants Hiring for Digital Solutions Engineering Manager at Worth, Illinois Full Time

Welcome to the FUCHS Group, the world’s number one independent manufacturer of lubricants and related specialties. As a global company with roots in Germany, we expand the possibilities of whole industries, such as the automotive and aerospace sectors. More than 5,000 employees look closer, dig deeper and think further to create innovations and develop markets. That is what drives and connects us. We encourage our employees to expand their potential and grow together with us. Explore your specialties by joining us as Digital Solutions Engineering Manager Next possible start date | Harvey
The Team:Our Digital Transformation and Technology team is embarking on a new journey and mindset for how we organize and think about our digital and technology solutions. Come join a team to help build and operate complex solutions for global business challenges that cross cultures, multiple business entities; with goals of creating new business models and services to help our customers every day. We are looking for people with a broad set of skills and people who approach work in an agile way, have a customer centric mindset, and have the understanding to incorporate scalability, world-class reliability, and security in their digital solutions.

We have ambitious goals ahead of us, and in that context, we are looking for a Digital Solutions Engineering Manager to help drive change across our teams and help us scale a Digital Solutions team. We expect you to bring significant experience acquired from a similar role in a former job. Not only will you lead projects in complete autonomy, but you will also be accountable for planning ahead, and thinking in terms of what’s best globally for the company rather than locally for your projects. This also means you are expected to ramp up on multiple projects and orchestrate changes across projects and teams whenever necessary. As a Digital Solutions Engineering Manager, you are also expected to be a technical leader, sharing your knowledge, helping engineers grow.

Responsibilities include

• Manage and lead the enterprise-wide digital engineering teams in support of digital applications and APIs
• Act as a change agent and develop a digital culture and mindset for how we approach work
• Lead the support of sustaining of our core products through design improvements, functionality enhancements, obsolescence management, and coordination of issue discovery and root cause analysis
• In working with Project Management and Business Analysts and Product teams, manage scoping, sizing, planning, development, implementation, and support for projects within the Digital portfolio (both local and global projects)
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Product/Business Owners, Operations and Testing groups in testing Digital applications to business defined quality metrics, and functional and non-functional KPIs
• Responsible for managing, maintaining and supporting digital applications and platforms in line with SLAs within production and non-production environments
• Specific engineering responsibilities to include:
• Design, develop and integrate RESTful API services / microservices
• Manage, maintain and govern engineering standards around security, secure-coding, logging, alerting, build, deployment, integration, containerization and orchestrations
• Manage and maintain the technical / solution documentation including architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams and production runbooks
• Manage production applications to KPIs and troubleshoot any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware, operating environment, network, and application
• In collaboration with Product Development/Business Owners and Design teams, responsible for helping define UX journeys, personas and widgets / utilities supporting the engineering frameworks
• Analyze customer insights, data, and competitive analyses to identify problems and opportunities
• This is a hybrid role

Qualifications we are looking for

• 10+ years in an Engineering leadership role managing and scaling engineering teams in building highly transactional web, API and customer facing applications and platforms
• 5 to 10 years of experience in increasingly responsible roles with at least 3 years of data related leadership within a complex global business environment
• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience including 5+ years of leading product engineering teams
• 5+ years of experience with Microservices and Restful API development
• 3+ years of experience cloud native development with .Net Core (Azure App Service, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, API Gateway, Microsoft Power Platform)
• Experience with Identity Providers and security implementations required (Okta, AD, SSO, SAML, OAuth, JWT experience required)
• Experience managing work within a DevOps environment, including Builds, CI/CD Pipelines, Version Control, etc. (MS stack is preferred – Visual Studio, TFS/DevOps)
• Proven experience defining product and technology roadmaps and establishing an execution plan for digital products and platforms
• Has the ability to work with business partners and articulate technical trends/concepts and design/implementation considerations
• Strong skills in problem solving, resource and portfolio planning and budgeting
• Solid financial acumen, able to construct sound business plans and effectively execute against them within planned budget and established timelines with high quality

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Prior technical leadership experience in B2B is preferred
• Working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, and MS Office (or equivalent digital project management tools)
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server (2016, 2017, or 2019) and no-SQL databases / caches (Cosmos DB, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached)
• Experience developing digital products from ideation to delivery with significant end-to-end IoT engineering development experience
• Experiencing building an Industrial IoT platform and cybersecurity
• Experience with identifying areas of potential intellectual property ownership as it relates to technology

People/Relationship Management

• Positively influences others and collaborates in ways that inspire them to act and/or change their perspective
• Lead, mentor, advise, and grow your team to ensure the deployment and sustainment of robust products that meet customer expectations
• Build strong relationships and collaboration between teams within US Digital Solutions and Technology, Global Technology, Marketing, and other business teams
• Demonstrating a ‘customer centric’ mindset by ensuring stakeholders’ questions are answered in a timely manner (internally and externally)
• Strengthen the relationship between digital product/business owners, deployment, and support teams to ensure a single clear goal amongst teams, allowing for better technology and customer experience
• Effectively manage communications with stakeholders

These are your benefits

Fuchs offers a challenging and rewarding working environment where employees are encouraged to develop and grow as professionals. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that will expand your experience and challenge your abilities in the global marketplace. The position also offers an excellent compensation package and a comprehensive suite of benefits.

Fuchs Lubricants Co. is an equal employment opportunity (EEO)/AA employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace (m/f/d/v).

Excel beyond your limitations and contribute your ideas in the flat hierarchies of a family-run company listed on the MDAX. Please apply online by clicking the “Apply now” button.

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