Decathlon Digital - Job description

Engineering Manager - Observability

CLOUD PLATFORM ENGINEERING (CPE) TEAMS

As a future Digital Giant, Decathlon needs to build solid foundations for its services. Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE), a collaborative initiative launched in 2020, aims to respond to this. Today, the CPE is a Business Unit of nearly 140 people who continue to source and work hand in hand with the teams in each area.

In the CPE, the Platform team that you will join deals with subjects allowing you to reduce the time of creation, testing, deployment and operation of products in production. The team will measure the value creation and adoption of its solutions. Close collaboration with teams is essential to concretely help them transform.

Topics around Observability are essential to our success because they allow developers to meet our velocity objectives without reducing the level of quality. Business and engineering-oriented decisions will also be simplified thanks to a real-time view of the entire technology stack.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Lead Observability teams
• Co-write and lead the implementation of the technological vision of the Domain Platform with teams and clients
• Build and enrich with the team the catalog of services common to all Decathlon entities
• Ensure the relevance of the services provided to users

Leadership

• Convey the Meaning, the Vision, the Decathlon project within the team
• Continue to grow teams
• Support employees in their "job/role" development and their skills.
• Lead employees on monitoring and innovation, proposing new services and organizations
• Negotiate with suppliers on already existing services
• Manage product budgets and economic models

Tech

• Contribute to the development of solutions and/or the training of our users

The technical scope:

Delivery: Datadog, Dynatrace, Pagerduty, Solarwinds, Splunk

Code management: Github

Cloud Service Providers: GCP, AWS

Infra-as-Code: Terraform

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• You have at least 7 years of experience as a developer and/or tech manager
• You like to evolve in an Agile context
• You have several experiences in the functional and/or hierarchical management of technical teams
• You have technical experience in the development field
• You give priority to the satisfaction of your customers, internal or external
• You enjoy working in an international environment. You are proficient in English, both spoken and written.
• You are curious. Part of your work will be to propose, test and implement the services of the future for Decathlon.
• You communicate effectively both with technical experts and with feature teams.
• You are particularly sensitive to the impact of practicing sport for the values that it has allowed you to acquire in your leadership style and the animation of your teams!
• You want to join a company with a positive impact (#tech4good)

WHAT WE OFFER

• 2 days of teleworking per week (remote);
• Option to work from one of the Decathlon Technology offices in Lille or Paris (travel regularly to Lille, at a rate of approximately 2 or 3 days per month)
• Freedom of choice of work tool (Mac, Windows, Chromebooks)
• Local project team and sharing with the global network (international background)
• Skills development and mentoring (diversity of projects, languages and technologies, certification, events)
• Possibility of certification from the first year (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Internal and external training
• Employee shareholding
• Monthly and quarterly bonuses

THE DECATHLON VISION

What if Tech allowed us to reinvent the sport of tomorrow and become the largest digital sports platform? This is the objective we set for ourselves at Decathlon.

"Making the pleasures and benefits of sport, sustainably accessible, to as many people as possible" has always been our mission. A vocation which today reaches its climax by increasing the experience of sport through technology and meeting the needs of our 500 million users around the world.

We are thus creating new experiences for athletes - virtual coaching, loyalty programs, intelligent in-store experiences, offers of new and used products, but also rental services for a wide range of Decathlon and partner products.

Decathlon Digital now has more than 2,500 technical profiles: software engineers, product managers, experts in data, Cloud and cybersecurity, in France and abroad; based in particular in Paris, Lille and Amsterdam.

Decathlon is committed to inclusion and non-discrimination, and thus acts daily in favor of disabilities, seniors, social diversity, and equality between women and men.

DECATHLON DIGITAL CONTEXT

What if technology allowed us to push the boundaries and take sports experiences to new levels? That's exactly our goal at Decathlon Digital! We are a team of 5,000+ experts in software engineering, product management, data, cloud, and cybersecurity, distributed across Paris, Lille, and Amsterdam. Together, we are creating the largest digital sports platform, leveraging tech innovation from design to value chain optimization, connected experiences and product second life.

Changing the game for good. We are in this for the love of sports. And like everything we love, we want it to last. That's why we are embarking on a journey to create a more sustainable tech model, reducing our direct environmental impact while maintaining a safe, diverse, and inclusive space for all our people to learn and thrive together. Team up with us to design the digital future of sports.