.NET Competence Lead

As a global logistics service provider, Katoen Natie combines engineering, technology and port operations to offer worldwide, tailor-made solutions to the chemical and automotive industries, and to the consumer goods, electronics & retail sector. Katoen Natie has 181 logistic platforms and is active in 40 countries all over Europe, North America, South America and the Far East with a staff of more than 18.000 people.

Our Business Units Petrochemicals, Specialty Chemicals, Warehousing & Commodities and Food & Feed offer total solutions based on integrated logistics and engineering. To support these fast-growing businesses, Katoen Natie is looking for a .NET Competence Lead for its sites in the harbor of Antwerp (Belgium).

You will take a lead role in developing, documenting and maintaining a vision for the .NET landscape at Katoen Natie. This by researching development trends and standards, providing documentation, onboarding tools and assisting with implementations.

As a Competence Lead you will be the SPOC regarding .NET technology usage and are responsible for updating and communicating with stakeholders about the technical roadmap.

Responsibilities

• R&D
• Write guides and guidelines for developers
• Onboard tooling
• Share knowledge and expertise within the company
• Provide training material for internal employees
• Design, develop and maintain reference solutions and architectures

What is expected of you

• Education: Bachelor or Master degree, or similar by experience.
• 4+ experience as a developer
• Proficient in developing in .NET
  • .NET Core, 6
  • .NET Framework
  • C#
  • Unit Testing
• Experience with Azure DevOps
  • Pipelines (CI/CD)
  • Boards
  • Artifacts
  • GIT
• Experience with Azure Cloud
  • Cloud components
  • Hosting capabilities
• Knowledge of Software Design Patterns
• Knowledge of current trends in .NET
  • Development techniques
  • Hosting models
  • Design patterns
  • Tooling
• Experience in Research and Development
  • Onboarding new tools/solutions
  • Document processes
  • Provide guidance and guidelines
• Active in the development community
  • Keep knowledge up to date
• Basic experience in Docker
• Experience as a technical lead is a plus
• Good knowledge of Dutch and English.
• Hands on, very good communication and relations skills.
• Flexible, involved, organized, self-motivated.
• Be able to work independently

• An exciting job in a leading dynamic company with no-nonsense culture
• New team and strategy within a vast company with lots of possibilities of growth
• A job with high responsibility and lots of variety
• An attractive salary package