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Client:
TUI
Location:
Lisbon, Portugal
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
c3b02749c968
Job Views:
3
Posted:
02.04.2025
Expiry Date:
17.05.2025
Job Description:
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Head Of Technology Practices, you will be responsible for the leadership of the Engineering Practice across several cross-functional agile teams and provide technical expertise, guidance, and support on complex problems while ensuring adherence to best practices in mobile app design, development, and testing for TUI Mobile Apps for iOS and Android (e.g., TUI Digital Assistant). You will be responsible for setting the technical direction and continuously evaluating the development and operational processes to drive improvements and standardize mobile engineering procedures to enhance efficiency and quality.
Your key responsibility is to lead a team of technical leaders, ensuring that they are growing within their area of expertise, acquiring new skills, and fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.
You will identify and recruit new talent into your team, coach and mentor existing and new team members, manage performance, and actively support career development. You will focus on increasing autonomy within your teams, enabling effective decision-making, and fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
You and your teams will set best practices for the full software development lifecycle and operations, collaborating with other teams and stakeholders to remove impediments and achieve business outcomes. You will continuously improve ways of working and cross-team collaboration across IT and business communities. You will manage relationships with key partners and suppliers to ensure third-party deliveries meet business needs and adhere to technology standards.
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. You will champion the SRE approach to building and releasing features while optimizing the delivery of business value. You will ensure that deliverables adhere to architectural design and quality standards, managing budget and cost responsibilities for your teams and platform.
You will have a strong background in leading cross-functional, diverse technology teams in an international context, working with senior technology and business stakeholders while managing a large-scale, cloud-based technology stack. You will advocate for and advance modern software development practices and help develop great engineering and organizational practices across the domain.
ABOUT YOU:
1. Enthusiastic about software delivery engineering practices, mobile technologies, and ecosystems (iOS, Android, Flutter) delivering business value and driving continuous improvement.
2. Strong technical experience delivering and operating cloud-native (AWS) digital products and services in an agile environment at a global scale.
3. Strong knowledge of mobile ecosystems, development practices, and technologies.
4. Loves developing and growing people and has a strong record of doing it.
5. Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring technology leaders, software engineers, and other technology roles from diverse cultural backgrounds.
6. Systems thinker with a strong understanding of business needs and the ability to manage a range of priorities and delegate effectively.
7. Great communicator and facilitator comfortable working across organizational and market boundaries and managing senior stakeholders; able to disagree yet align.
8. Good grasp of experience with the respective tech stack (e.g., cloud technology, design patterns, micro-services, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and operational SRE principles).
ABOUT OUR OFFER
1. Working in the leading global tourism group: We stand for intercultural cooperation and offer the opportunity to work in international projects and teams.
2. Fantastic holiday benefits including discounts and special offers.
3. Mobile working, flexible working hours, and working from abroad: We believe that work is something you do, not where you go. Our offer: TUI Way of Working.
4. Health and Wellbeing support in five key areas – Health, Social, Community, Career, and Financial.
5. Development and career opportunities: We offer a wide range of digital training and international career opportunities.
6. Additional benefits relevant to the local market that you’ll be based in.
At TUI, we know people are as diverse as the destinations we send our customers to. We love to see your uniqueness shine through and inspire the future of travel. If you would like to read more about what Diversity & Inclusion means to us, please visit our Smile page.
If you have any questions, please contact the Recruiter for this role via the contact information included in the advert.
Please Note: These vacancies will be managed by an International Recruitment Team, and therefore your application may be viewed by TUI colleagues outside your home country.
Do you have any questions regarding this job offer? Get in touch!
Sam Somerfield
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Please note: Only for questions or queries. Applications will only be accepted via the Careers Portal.
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