Director Software Foundations - Warehouse Robotics & Automation
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Job description
The Director of Software Foundations, reporting to the CTO, defines and leads the strategy for shared platforms and services that let Exotec's software teams innovate quickly while ensuring reliability, security, performance and scalability.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Lille, France
- Languages
- French
What you'll do
- Define and execute the Infrastructure, Platform Engineering and Cybersecurity strategy to support the company's global growth.
- Build shared, reusable platforms that accelerate software development while controlling complexity and costs.
- Support the transition to cloud-native architectures and modern operating models.
- Ensure the reliability, availability and resilience of the critical platforms used by all Exotec software products.
- Improve operational performance and cloud adoption at global scale.
- Strengthen architecture governance and reduce technical risk and technical debt.
- Develop a modern Software Factory enabling fast, reliable and secure deliveries.
- Improve developer experience through automation, self-service and standardization of engineering practices.
- Deploy DevOps, SRE and CI/CD best practices across the organization.
- Manage and develop a team of managers and senior technical leaders.
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement and technical excellence.
- Align technical priorities with the company's business objectives.
What we're looking for
- Significant experience leading large-scale Software Engineering, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure organizations.
- Proven experience managing managers and senior technical leaders in complex, critical environments.
- Demonstrated success in cloud, infrastructure or engineering transformation programs.
- Strong command of Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering, networks and cybersecurity, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD and Software Delivery, enterprise software architecture, API and Data platforms.
- Strategic vision combined with a strong execution orientation.
- Ability to challenge decisions while giving teams autonomy.
- Constant pursuit of scalability, operational excellence and lasting impact.
- Ability to translate business challenges into pragmatic technology roadmaps.
- Collaborative leadership combining high standards, clear decision-making and talent development.
- Customer-centered decision-making, responsibility, rigorous execution, simplifying complex challenges, continuous improvement and effective collaboration.
Your team
Software Foundations
Shared platforms and services organization covering Infrastructure Engineering, networks and telecommunications, cybersecurity, Software Factory and Developer Experience, CI/CD, testing tools and Release Engineering, API and Data foundations, and software engineering transformation programs.
Benefits
Major impact: contributing directly to the technology foundations used across Exotec's entire software ecosystem and influencing technology decisions globally.
Accelerated growth in an environment where innovation, ambition and speed of execution enable exceptional professional development.
International dimension: joining a global team where diversity, inclusion and collaboration foster better decisions and stronger solutions.
Strong culture: building technologies with concrete impact on clients' daily work while cultivating trust, proximity and collaboration among colleagues.
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About Exotec
We design elegant, reliable, ready-to-use robotic storage and order preparation solutions.
As a global leader in intralogistics automation, Exotec transforms logistics operations to make them safer, faster, more efficient and less physically demanding for the teams who work in them.
Mission
Support some of the largest international brands in their transition to automated warehouses.
Key facts
- Global leader in intralogistics automation.
- Technology makes logistics operations safer, faster, more efficient and less physically demanding.
What they value
- Customer at the center of decisions.
- Responsibility and rigorous execution.
- Simplifying complex challenges and continuously improving.
- Effective collaboration to reach collective goals.