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Are you passionate about leading high-performing engineering teams and scaling world-class DevOps platforms and Developer Experience? Join Pandora’s Digital & Technology organization and help define engineering excellence across our global landscape. As Senior Engineering Manager, DevOps CoE, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Pandora’s engineering culture and practices. You will own the definition and adoption of engineering standards, DevOps principles, automation practices, and high-performance engineering behaviours across Digital & Technology. You will lead and develop engineers through strong people leadership, capability building, and coaching, while driving a consistent approach to engineering excellence. This includes embedding DORA metrics, SDLC automation, reliability and SRE practices, and intelligent developer workflow automation at scale. You will manage a blended team of internal and external engineers and ensure predictable, high-quality, and secure software delivery across the organization.
Job Responsibility:
Lead teams focused on DevOps Platform, Operational Excellence, and DevOps Tooling
Drive career development, capability uplift, and succession planning for engineers
Champion a culture of DevOps, experimentation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
Own engineering delivery for the DevOps platform and tooling (GitHub, CI/CD, IaC, observability, Backstage, AKS)
Drive self-service capabilities, golden paths, and developer productivity improvements
Define and maintain Pandora Engineering Standards and automate SDLC controls (quality, security, compliance, release)
Partner with architects to enable decoupled, reusable, and modern platforms
Improve reliability and flow using DORA metrics, MTTR/MTTC, and incident/change excellence
Embed postmortem culture and SRE practices across domains
Lead DevOps and reliability communities across Digital & Technology
Manage strategic vendors and partnerships (GitHub, Azure, Atlassian, New Relic) to maximize value
Requirements:
8+ years of experience in senior engineering leadership or platform/DevOps leadership roles
Master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field
Proven track record of leading and developing senior engineers and engineering managers in a global, matrix organization
Strong understanding of modern software engineering, DevOps, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise governance
A visionary leader with strategic, yet hands-on and execution-focused approach when needed
Inspirational leadership, comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving innovation
Excellent communication skills to translate technical concepts into business language
What we offer:
Work in a beautiful Head Office in Copenhagen V with LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design
Professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational