Head of Tech / Tech Circle Lead, Germany

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About the role

A diverse, learning-hungry and quality-minded team of technologists across Germany is waiting for you to get to the next level!

We are looking for someone to lead and support our tech competence group in Germany. On top of that, our international clients have complex, high-stakes challenges in driving their organizations to be more data-oriented and connect disjointed digitization efforts into coherent digital strategy, organizational change and innovation.

Your responsibilities in this role are versatile and multi-faceted:

• Increasing our market relevancy through conference talks, interviews and articles
• Playing a key role in ensuring that the competence is developing in line with the needs of clients, the market and our talent, and in driving the Futurice Germany business forward.
• Supporting business development and being a key contact and advisor in strategic engagements
• Driving strategy and vision: Identifying and implementing new emerging tech themes and practices that keep us relevant and competitive in the German market for our German tech team of more than 50 individuals,
• Building connections within Futurice to group leadership, different competence groups and sites in Germany and other markets as well as our offering teams
• Collaboration with competence area leads to establish upskilling and training plans

Recipe for success

For your new role as Head of Technology with Futurice Germany you bring a track record and network that helps bring client- and industry perspectives into our organization. You have probably worked in VP of Engineering, CTO/CIO/CDO of a smaller to mid-sized organization, or other senior engineering management roles that give you credibility towards the team and top stakeholders with our clients alike.

• You understand the intersection of business, customer needs, technology and organizational design. Your analytical mind breaks complex issues down and first-class communication skills help communicate mission, strategy and tactics simply - both internally as well as externally.
• You remain relatable, humble and retain a servant leadership mindset as your primary goal is to enable the highest quality digital engineering team in the professional services sector.
• You have a consultant mindset through-and-through and empathy is your secret instrument to mindful listening followed by impactful, measurable results.
• Having had experience in managing large-scale digital programs and digital transformation processes is a big plus.
• Agile, Lean and Design thinking are known methodologies. Knowledge about flat, networked organizations are a plus
• You stay on top of industry trends, ranging from newest cloud and cloud native technologies, to DevSecOps and SRE to the many opportunities of data engineering and learned systems. Data meshes, lake houses, domain driven design and event driven architectures are terms you have not just heard, but can talk about with clients and convince them about the benefit for their business - the why, how and what.
• You know how to design teams for cognitive load, optimal cycle times and highest quality products. You can advise project teams on their way to flow state and solve tricky communication and expectation management problems.
• While you will no longer personally deliver software or data pipelines to our clients, you have an understanding of what environment and knowledge is needed to do so.
• Lastly, you enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge, be it on conference stages or in intimate discussions with your team. This turns you into a role model for a culture of sharing and learning.

You will be reporting directly to the Managing Director.

Sounds like a lot? We don’t expect you to have everything on the spot but are eager to learn as this role is critical to the success of our German organization.

Compensation

80,000 - 115,000 EUR/year

Your salary is attached to our transparent career path model. Once we have gotten to know you better, we are making an individual career-level-assessment, based on your skills, responsibilities and impact.

Additionally, you are eligible to receive a company-wide bonus and several other benefits not listed above.

Does this sound like the opportunity you’ve been looking for?

If yes, that’s great news – please head on over to the next phase and submit your application.

Our application form is about as easy as it gets, just enter your contact information and upload your attachments. We’re hoping to see at least your CV and a few lines about yourself and why you want to join Futurice (for inspiration, take a look here to read our tips on how to stand out from the other applicants). You’ll also have the option to submit links to your LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile or your portfolio, as well as share other attachments relevant to the application.

After we receive your application, we will reach out to you. Those selected for the interview phase can look forward to an initial discussion, both in order for us to get to know you better, and for you to get more familiar with life at Futurice. That will be followed by an in-depth talk with your potential future colleagues to dive deeper into your professional skills, and finally, one more general chat where you’ll discuss things like your potential future projects.

How we work

Ever since Futurice was founded, we’ve been committed to offering a workplace people will genuinely enjoy coming to every morning, Mondays included. We’ve put tons of effort into fostering a healthy and welcoming company culture combined with fair and competitive salaries as well as perks that improve the wellbeing of each Futuricean – take a look here to learn more, check our Culture handbook 2.0 and get to know some of our people through their career stories. Each of our offices also adds its own unique vibe and flavor into the mix. Learn more about our offices here!

At Futurice, new joiners are not expected to fit into a specific mold – people are free to come as they are, regardless of their background. We believe there’s power in perspectives and consider diversity an important part of our success – which is why we have made diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) a key component of our company’s strategy. You can learn more about our DE&I commitment and efforts here.

We’re Futurice

We are a team of over 800 professionals representing more than 60 nationalities in 6 countries. We help forward-thinking organizations solve their biggest challenges and empower them to make a positive impact on the world. We work with clients from several industries to co-create world-class digital services, both on-site and remotely. And we’d love to welcome you home right here, with us.