Lead Platform Engineer Integrations

About ERIKS Digital

We are ERIKS Digital, formerly award winning startup Zamro, today the global technology & data hub of ERIKS. We are forerunners that love to take on new adventures and try new things. We thrive on innovation and are here to digitally transform the world of industrial services.

In order to achieve this, we created a culture in which we act as a sports team. We have a growth mindset, are result driven and work in a high pace. And most importantly: we do it together. With colleagues that are as fun as they are bright.

Position

ERIKS Digital is looking for a Lead Platform Engineer Integrations

As Lead Platform Engineer Integrations, you will work closely with our Platform Engineering Manager to drive and develop a scalable and performant API platform to support the integration between ERIKS applications and our customers and suppliers. To realize this, you will be collaborating intensively, and hands on, with our Digital Integrations Platform team and Global Enterprise Architecture.

Most of the integrations we build from scratch by exploring innovative technologies. This will involve making infrastructure, architectural and design decisions together with leads of various platform teams and disciplines. You will plan, design, implement and maintain, amongst others, API integrations, provide methodologies, processes, and governance for our API platform.

All our development is in focus of realizing the product roadmaps for our main product domains being, Customer Interactions & Sales, Suppliers & CoE, and Supply Chain & Finance. Therefore, a good understanding and capability of translating business recruitments in technical solutions is a must have.

In the lead position you will take on a leading and mentoring role, overseeing, and aligning to support and participate in the work of the Digital Integrations team and drive collaboration from an integration perspective with all our product propositions (Ecommerce, Country websites, Guided Buying, Wiki, and Smart Asset Management), our customers, suppliers, and our enterprise applications.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the API and integrations capabilities for ERIKS with the Platform team Digital Integrations
• Define and convert the API strategy within ERIKS to a user-friendly product towards internal and external customers
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Platform team Digital Integrations to develop best practices and methodologies, processes and a governance framework on API management, enterprise integration and micro-services. Incl. enhancing the current CI/CD processes to support new and existing development
• Develop integration solutions, including REST APIs, SOAP APIs, Event Driven/Queue based integrations and service orchestrations and manage the entire life cycle
• Design, plan and implement migrations from EDI connections to API
• Assist with integration solutions planning, liaise with relevant application and product experts and contribute to solution design 
• Liaise with solution architects, business analysts and other developers to ensure all deliveries are supported by the correct architectural implementation
• Supporting the Global Enterprise Architecture; ensure that all solutions and changes are in line with the enterprise architecture

Your qualification

• Bachelor or master’s degree is preferred
• 3-5 years of relevant development and integration experience
• Awareness of critical concepts in Development, Architecture and Agile principles
• Cloud & Hosting Services: Knowledge of SOA, API Architectures and Cloud solutions (predominantly Azure)
• You have a good understanding of emerging trends and innovative integration technologies
• Proven experience with;
  • Microsoft Azure Integration Services
  • ETL/ELT (Azure Data Factory)
  • Enterprise API Management (Open API, Azure API management, Apigee API Management, Dell Boomi, Mulesoft, other)
  • Microservices Architecture
  • REST API’s and you are familiar with .NET framework, C#, API and Service development
• Open API, json, Azure API Management, Azure Logic Apps have no secrets for you
• Experience in Web service/API development
• Knowledge in SOAP protocol and REST principles
• Experience in API testing (Postman, SoapUI, other)

Personal competence:

• Good communication skills connecting with internal and external customers is a must
• You’re fluent in English. Any other language is an asset
• An enthusiastic, curious mindset and you are an absolute fan of technology
• Enjoys working in a fast paced and Agile environment and will not hesitate to ask colleagues for advice and help in solving your challenges
• An analytical mindset. Where other people see problems, you see solutions
• Pragmatic, analytical, results focused, ability to make complex matters simple
• Desire to work in a diverse and enjoyable team and to contribute to our productivity and fun at work!

Additional details

Dutch DNA, global culture

With its expansion into 17 countries and many different industries, ERIKS became a global organization, with a truly international culture and vision and with talent, experts, and client relationships from everywhere. Meanwhile, its headquarters and roots are in The Netherlands. The company is owned by SHV, a family-owned Dutch group with a portfolio of seven companies that together employ nearly 60.000 people worldwide. The culture at both SHV and ERIKS is built on integrity, entrepreneurship, and a core value of investing in people. With its 6.500 employees and nearly 2 billion Euros revenue, ERIKS is an established corporate – yet one with the entrepreneurial drive and willingness to invest that is often found at younger, smaller, PE-backed businesses.

Digital transformation

ERIKS now finds itself in a very exciting phase: that of a companywide digital transformation. The potential of digital technology for ERIKS extends to all business aspects, from easy business workflows to direct commercial purposes. Digital technology can advance ERIKS e-commerce channels as well as offer new innovations and service propositions that are partially or fully digital. Examples include the proposition of Smart Asset Management (IoT) or ‘ERIKS Wiki’, a knowledge mining database for employees and customers. ERIKS has a dedicated approach to digitization. The company is internally building a proactive, solution-oriented product organisation with top-notch developers and digital and industry experts. Recently, a Chief Digital Officer was hired, and the next three years people, operating model, architecture, governance, and strategy will take full focus.