Senior Component Engineer

Senior technical contributor in the Technology Integration Team, delivering and sustaining a portfolio of color technology components. You will own technical delivery, quality, and lifecycle, collaborating with a Product Owner and mentoring engineers. This role combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership and portfolio governance. You’ll shape integration patterns, maintain a component catalog, and drive CI/CD quality gates. Your work supports scalable color services and enables reusable building blocks across AkzoNobel’s tools and platforms.

• Competitive salary
• 8% vacation allowance
• 13th month
• Hybrid way of working
• Training opportunities
• Paint with a discount

• Own delivery and lifecycle of assigned color technology components (libraries, APIs/services, utilities)
• Provide technical guidance through code/design reviews and knowledge-sharing
• Plan capacity, manage delivery commitments and run Scrum ceremonies with Product Owner
• Maintain component catalog including versioning, compatibility, and deprecation processes
• Steward API/package contracts and integration patterns for consistency and reusability
• Translate epics into implementable work items with clear acceptance criteria; act as Technical Lead for mid-sized projects
• Define and enforce Definition of Done and CI/CD quality gates with QA/automation partners
• Coordinate release readiness and ensure proper versioning, documentation and migration notes
• Contribute to patent screening and disclose innovations; help shape technical roadmap

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Applied Physics/Mathematics or related discipline
• 8–10+ years of production-grade software component/engineering leadership experience in a .NET/service-oriented environment
• Proven track record of establishing and enforcing engineering standards and mentoring engineers
• Experience in Agile/Scrum with cross-functional and external contributors
• Strong C#/.NET and API/service design skills with hands-on NuGet packaging and dependency management
• Test automation mindset with experience in CI/CD pipelines (unit, integration, contract, regression)
• Familiarity with operational readiness for services (logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, runbooks)
• Working knowledge of Azure fundamentals and SQL integration patterns desirable
• Curiosity about color science and colorimetric workflows is a plus

• mentorship and knowledge sharing
• technical leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• C#/.NET
• API/service design
• NuGet packaging