Senior Technical Program Manager

at  Inpost

Company Description
InPost Group is Europe’s leading out-of-home delivery partner, making deliveries secure and convenient for millions of customers every day in more than 15 countries, including Poland, the UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France. We operate under two brands: InPost and Mondial Relay.
We provide a cost-effective and greener solution for merchants, offering customers greater convenience. At the heart of our business are the Automated Parcel Machines (aka Parcel Lockers), which we have been designing and producing in-house for years.
At InPost Group, we believe that creating and sharing value with our stakeholders is about more than just financial returns. Thanks to the Parcel Locker delivery model, our growth contributes to the reduction of the carbon footprint by up to 75% compared to traditional courier deliveries, and we pursue an ambitious ESG program to increase our impact for a more sustainable world. This year, we will be delivering more than 600 million parcels using more than 25,000 lockers; our network and parcel volumes consistently grow year on year in every market we serve.
Job Description
As a Senior Technical Program Manager for APM and Pudo area, you work closely with product, engineering and other stakeholders to drive technical initiatives within organization.
This roles combines skills of a staff engineer and project/program manager. You create or participate in architectural design of solutions. You validate and recommend solutions and actively participate in building strategies. To thrive in this role you will need technical experience to be able to support business partners and projects in technical knowledge and expertise.
An ideal candidate has broad experience as a programmer and/or architect and is ready to provide technical knowledge to support business partners and projects. We are looking for TPM who understand business processes in consumer/operations area and will take ownership and manage projects/initiatives.
Technologies we use:
Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, Angular, Xamarin, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra / Scylla, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark, DataBricks, Kubernetes, Rancher, Enterprise Architect, LeanIX, Jira, SAP Signavio

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree and/or equivalent in information technology (IT/ICT).
• 5+ years related work experience (preferably as project or program manager),
• Additional Product Management experience would be an asset.
• Logistics services industry experience preferred.
• Good knowledge of IT technologies (to be able to understand design and do high level analysis) especially enterprise class technologies.
• Knowledge of system integrations would be an asset.
• Demonstrated understanding of program and project management principles, tools and techniques including business case development, ROI analysis, planning and issues management.
• Takes ownership and follows through on tasks; drives decisions; result-oriented,
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including comfort with negotiation and influencing.
• English for fluent verbal and written communication is a must.
  Additional Information

Why Join InPost?

• We give a lot of conceptual freedom and the opportunity to implement our own ideas / improvements
• Opportunity to work in a diverse, international, and cross-functional environment, along with leading experts.
• You work and learn from a senior leader and her leadership bench, extending your experience and exposure in the e-commerce and logistics industry.
• InPost is a growing company that offers its employees an increasing number of opportunities in several locations in Europe.
• Fulfilling careers with a range of benefits for employees and investing in providing training opportunities for their development.
• You will feel a part of the InPost community that makes an impact on sustainability, convenient deliveries, and circular economy every day.

• Supporting business development activities by providing technical proposals, budget estimates and business cases presentations.
• Actively participate in the process of creating requirements, conducting analyses and identifying key factors affecting the development of the project. Support teams in precisely defining goals and setting priorities in the process of project implementation.
• Manage mid-scale and large impact technological projects, including their technical strategy, solutioning and program execution (roadmap, budget, supervision ,troubleshooting).
• Collaborate with other functions, domains, and stakeholders to ensure effective project delivery, oversee and communicate project statuses and metrics, and advise on technology solutions and opportunities.
• Define and address project risks and technological dependencies between products, indicating possible solutions.
• Coordinate and partner with diverse internal stakeholder groups including early engagement to achieve effective buy-in.
• In collaboration with our experts, design and recommend appropriate, reliable and scalable technical solutions
• Identify project risks and issues; make recommendations for improvement to existing processes and procedures
• Ensure timely use of project and technology tools to help drive accountability. Ensure project resources and budgets are tracked and kept up to date.
• Understand the system architecture and functionality, assess the feasibility of client requests and applies the features of the various products as applicable.
• Optimize an architecture of existing services and solutions, optimize an architecture communication aspects between software components and systems by proactively participate in architectural design.
• Make sure the highest-impact problems are defined by leaders and seniors for their projects.
• Taking ownership and managing certain “ways of working” processes in technology teams
• Taking ownership and managing 3rd party solutions and their integrations.