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This is your opportunity to design and build up the new central messaging platform at KN. From Porto, you can shape a completely new messaging ecosystem, and grow an international team of devops and software engineers. Sounds like a perfect next step in your career? Read on!

Your Role

You will drive and nurture the messaging domain within the new IT ecosystem KNITE – you are joining us in an early project state and therefore have a lot of space to influence, shape, and design. You will connect over 200 applications in the cloud and orchestrate their interconnectivity using Apache Kafka. You work together with the Product Lead on strategy, roadmap and core feature for the the Message + Event Platform. You steer the Message + Event Platform with regards to requirements and roadmap. You work with non-functional requirements to create iteratively the central messaging platform for Kuehne + Nagel. You create epics and user stories based on rough ideas of customers. You act as a servant leader for the development team providing guidance and objectives, as well as facilitating technical decision making processes.

Your Responsibilities

• Define, align and drill down the roadmap together with a highly talented and experienced development team based on customer needs

• Be in contact with our customers and connect the needs with the roadmap of the Message + Event Platform

• Translate the vision into manageable roadmap items to be implemented with the team

• Specify user stories and epics based on the needs of our customers

• Define and derive (non-functional) requirements based on the needs of our clients

Your Skills and Experiences

• You are an expert in requirements engineering in agile projects

• You are passionate to maintain a backlog to support the team to focus on the valuable items for customers

• You are aware what it means to create and operate a centralized platform used by numerous business critical systems

• You like to understand customer needs on a technical level and can transform those into implementable requirements for the platform

• Ideally you are familiar with one major messaging technology (Apache Kafka welcome)

• Ideally you are familiar with one of the major cloud providers (AWS welcome)

• You enjoy working as part of an engineering team and by that create value for Kuehne + Nagel

• Collaborative work in international company inspires you

Good Reasons to Join

Our work will have a direct influence on the future of logistics and IT. Our teams are experts who are helping shape the IT industry in Portugal and around the world. We want you to feel comfortable in our working environment, where you will be dealing with different cultures. As such, we offer flexible working hours. We value teamwork, continuous learning, and diversity. Kuehne + Nagel offers you a tailor-made career - through individual planning and team leaders who support and advise you in every way. You will be supported by many work-life balance offers, supplemental health insurance, and our EAP - Employee Assistant Program.

Kuehne + Nagel is an equal employment/affirmative action employer. If you require an accommodation for any part of the online application process due to a disability, please contact the Employee Services HR Help Desk at 1-800-267-1326 during the hours of 8:00am - 5:00pm EST; Monday through Friday or via e-mail at: HR.helpdesk@kuehne-nagel.com with the nature of your request. We will answer your inquiry within 24 hours.