Sr. Engineer Color Components

About the Role

AkzoNobel's Technology Integration Team develops and productizes reusable Color Technology Components that power internal and customer-facing applications across the global paints and coatings business.

A senior hands-on .NET technical leader who owns reusable software components/APIs from design and development through release, production support and lifecycle management.

Key Purpose of the Role

The Sr. Engineer Color Components will be the senior technical owner of a portfolio of reusable software components used across AkzoNobel's internal and customer-facing Color Technology applications.

The person will:

• Develop and maintain reusable .NET libraries, NuGet packages, APIs and services.
• Ensure components are scalable, modular, well-documented, versioned and production-ready.
• Provide senior technical leadership and mentorship to engineers.
• Own the technical approach, architecture, quality and lifecycle of the component portfolio.
• Work closely with the Product Owner, R&D, QA and internal/external engineering teams.
• Act as the Technical Application Manager (TAM) for the Scrum team.
• Drive engineering standards, CI/CD, testing, security, release management and technical-debt reduction.

Experience

Mandatory:

• 810+ years of production-grade software/component engineering experience.
• Strong experience in a .NET/service-oriented environment.
• Experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards.
• Experience providing technical mentorship to engineers.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Experience working with cross-functional and external engineering teams.
• Experience with:
• Versioning
• Backward compatibility
• Release management
• Consumer enablement
• Component lifecycle management

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in:
• Computer Science
• Software Engineering
• Applied Physics/Mathematics
• Related discipline

Preferred candidate profile

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a hands-on senior software engineer/technical lead who has experience building and owning reusable software components, libraries, APIs or services.

The candidate should be comfortable taking technical ownership, making design decisions, mentoring engineers and ensuring that software components are scalable, maintainable, secure and production-ready.

Prior Color Science or Paints & Coatings experience is not mandatory.