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On this journey, we are looking for a Mendix Platform Engineer  who can act as a leader with passion for application development and improving every step of it. Step by step. With patience and with a drive for results.

Role and responsibilities

The Mendix Platform Team works on several strategic themes, such as creating awareness of the Mendix Platform amongst stakeholders, introducing new technological capabilities on the Mendix Platform, improving, standardizing, and automating processes related to development and deployment, building standard components and widgets, collecting data and providing valuable insights, mitigating risks, and offering support and guidance to Mendix developers all over the organization. The ultimate purpose of the Mendix Platform Team is to provide all that’s necessary to enable scalability, stability, knowledge, and tools to the Mendix Platform, so that Mendix developers can utilize it in delivering high-quality applications that support end-users in their day-to-day activities.

You will take on the responsibility to bring a variety of initiatives to a successful end. Often times, this entails identifying the root causes of problems, gathering information (interviews, data analyses, etc.), finding logical improvements, developing a suitable solution (such as a technical PoC or a non-technical process change), and generalizing the outcomes to best-practices and guidelines that others can use to improve the way they use Mendix. Examples of topics are the introduction of new Mendix features, automating common procedures/functionalities, such as Single Sign-On or authorizations, so that Mendix community can follow the platform standards set by your team.

Your main stakeholders are your colleagues in the Mendix Platform Team, the Mendix Platform Product Owner, System Architect, and Mendix developers/competence members and Product Owners as part of application teams across the whole organization. You enjoy working together, and can naturally take on a leading position to dissect complex topics into pieces and take them on one-by-one during discussions with stakeholders with backgrounds. You know how to influence without hierarchical authority and provide solutions that people are motivated to use. For some topics, it is useful to bring along an architectural mindset, so that the standards you define are sensible from a long-term perspective.

As part of your role, you will also be responsible for the Mendix life cycle management processes for the applications, widgets, modules, widgets, and documentation. You guide and instruct colleagues in the Mendix App Factory team about Mendix Platform capabilities.

Education:

• You’ve obtained a degree on a master’s or bachelor’s level (preferably in Information Technology, Business IT, or similar).
•  You’ve obtained your Mendix Advanced Certification at least two years ago, and are preferably certified at the Expert-level.

Experience:

• You have a minimum of three years of experience in Mendix application development, having faced a fair share of complex challenges.
• You have experience with cloud environments (preferably Azure and AKS) and understand CI/CD concepts.
• You have sufficient knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Java/JavaScript to be able to built simple widgets/modules/scripts.
• You preferably have a fair understanding of UX-design
• You’ve got experience building integrations between Mendix and non-Mendix systems (e.g. using REST-API-ODATA, React Native, HIP).
• You’ve preferably been part of or collaborated with a Mendix Platform Team in the past, and can thus bring specific experience to the table.

To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• You show a pragmatic, hands-on attitude, when the situation calls for it, you speed up and get things done.
• You strike the balance between delivering high-quality and being quick-and-decisive.
• You have excellent analytical skills with which you are able to translate complex problems into step-by-step solutions.
• You have a demonstrated ability to perform in high-pressure environments.
• You don’t shy away from taking on responsibility for a challenge, trusting that you’re in an environment where failure isn’t – punished.
• You’re a great communication and know how to deliver engaging presentations, workshops, and documents.
• You can influence people without authority and deal with resistance occasionally.
• You are passionate about driving innovative solutions;
• You broadcast enthusiasm and bring good team spirit to your peers.
• You care about your ‘customer’, and are willing to go the extra mile to help them.
• You are fluent in English (Dutch is nice-to-have).