It is important to notice that the role as a Chapter Lead is also what we call a “playing coach”, and your time will be spent on three core areas:  

• You will develop the Front-End craft 

• You will line manage the Front-End developers within the craft., e.g. leading, recruiting, developing, and evaluating people 

• You will be a Front-end developer in your own agile team     

The responsibilities  

To be more precise on what you can expect as our new Front-End Chapter Lead, it will be your responsibility to: 

• Ensure consistency in ways or working and standards within the professional domain across tribes 

• Lead professional expertise through standard setting 

• Provide sparring on best practices or new ways of working 

• Be line manager for professionals within their trade and chapter across tribes and assumes responsibility for review and development plans 

• Develop people within their area to become the best possible professionals 

• Ensure rewarding career tracks and best in class training 

• Develop and lead the vision for what a professional is within their craft 

• Communicate the ambition both within and outside the professional domain 

• Inspire and create excitement around the future of the craft – is a specialist within the field and ensures cutting-edge knowledge/training 

Let us turn the focus to you  

To be considered for the position, we expect that you hold a bachelor- or a master’s degree of IT/science and that you have professional experience with the following: 

• In-depth knowledge within Front-End development based on technologies as: JavaScript, React.js, Gatsby, NextJS, NodeJS and NestJS, RESTful and GraphQL APIs 

• Modern front-end build pipelines and tools 

• You understand business requirements and know how to translate them into technical requirements 

• Experience with people management. It can also be the case that you have experience with informal leadership and you now want to take it to the next step. 

As Front-End Chapter Lead your personal competencies has a crucial impact on your success with setting the vision and standards for the Front-End development area in DFDS. This means that we expect that it comes natural to you to lead the way and the “how”. Furthermore, you are a charismatic person with great coaching skills and able to develop your team to become better professionals.  

About DFDS and Technology & Innovation  

As a key part of our strategy, DFDS’ Technology & Innovation teams are instrumental in providing efficient ferry and road transport services in Europe. DFDS employs 8,000 people ashore and at sea throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region, including 340 highly dedicated Digital and IT experts. 

At DFDS, we believe that digital technologies, and the pace of their adoption, are key driving forces in changing the ways businesses work. Hence, IT Architecture & development is strategically important in the continued journey and success for DFDS. This position holds a fantastic opportunity to influence the way DFDS will be conducting business in the future and offers you an excellent opportunity to further enhance your career path. 

To learn more about what our colleagues have to say about working in DFDS, and our technological journey, look at https://www.dfds.com/tech.