Information Technology

The area of Digital & Technology at Kuehne+Nagel is an exciting place to work

Logistics is an information business. Having the right tools to gather and process information can make all the difference. Digital & Technology has been an essential element of Kuehne+Nagel for decades. Today, thousands of professionals across the globe are working hard to create a seamless data exchange system to support our customers and suppliers. Our ambition is to become a fully technology-enabled and data-driven value chain provider.

The speed of technological developments and changing consumer behaviour patterns influence the markets and the demands on modern logistics processes. We adapt and improve our flexibility and delivery speed accordingly. To achieve our goals, we focus on our people and the digital products they create. With our implementation of a product-centric organisation, we enable colleagues around the globe to co-create our outstanding digital backbone. An objective-oriented product steering assures that the creativity and expertise of all colleagues are maximised whilst providing the necessary strategic direction.

Join our team and add your personality and skill to our digital DNA.

Did you know?

2,000+ experts globally

contribute to becoming a fully data-driven value chain provider.

3 Global Data Centre

with nearly 10,000 virtualized servers and a central container platform.

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10,000+ data transactions per minute

moving through our systems worldwide.

6 Innovation Labs and Centres

accelarating in digital transformation.

2 Cloud Landing Zones

with major Cloud providers managed by an internal competence centre.

40,000+ Clients

who create a multitude of challenges we turn into fruitful business opportunities.

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1,500+ Applications

developed and maintained by in-house experts.

68 Countries

Take a look at our locations.

Our Digital & Technology Hubs

In addition to our three largest hubs, our tech colleagues are located all over the world, for example in Poland, the UK, France and the US.

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Tech Hub Tallinn

At Kuehne+Nagel's Tallinn TechHub, you play a key role in leading the digital transformation of the logistics industry. We are building tech solutions that touch on everything from vaccine delivery to windmill engines. Be part of the solution for innovating warehouses and other touchpoints along supply chains.

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Tech Hub Porto

Kuehne+Nagel opened a new IT Hub in Porto, a historic city recognised worldwide for its monuments, climate, gastronomy, but increasingly for its digital and technological ecosystem. Being part of our Porto IT Hub is now integrating this ecosystem into an organisation with a strong tech and digital culture.

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Tech Hub Hamburg

In our IT Hub in Hamburg more than 600 colleagues are working on various projects to support internal and external customers with the optimal solution throughout all our business fields.

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How is working in the area of Digital & Technology?

Innovative

Shape the digital future of logistics by developing solutions that improve global supply chains.

Challenging

Understanding customers' needs and matching them with what we offer to deliver the best quality.

Agile

Working internationally across cultures requires an agile and easily adaptable skill set.

Empowering

Be part of our inspiring and rewarding working environment at Kuehne+Nagel Digital & Technology.

Engaging

Work together with a team that goes above and beyond. Being aware that only a joint goals and motivation are key to deliver progress to society.

Our Technology

Kuehne+Nagel is one of a few global players with the capability to develop own core software systems in order to gain competitive advantages wherever possible. Besides the development of know-how, Kuehne+Nagel has established integration as a key core competence, enabling us to easily integrate new software modules, new customers, partners and suppliers and to react quickly on new challenges. We keep the business running - as a partner and consultant to the business, with joint commercial targets. With technological developments, we are constantly creating new values for our customers.

We explore and evaluate technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and connected sensors, cloud services, artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, and apply them in several projects worldwide.

Further automation of business processes and operation helps us to sharpen and structure our systems and thus improve our operational efficiency. Based on our digital backbone and modern operating systems and interfaces, we develop new digital products and innovative solutions for complex needs, transparent prices and improved planning, respond to market requirements and create real added value.

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A selection of our innovative products and solutions

Our Tech Stack

You can benefit from a wide variety of mature, enterprise-ready open-source tools. These are typically developed in the cloud to benefit from elastic scalability. You mainly work with Angular, VueJS, React, Spring, Apache Airflow, Apache Camel, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, JUnit, Pandas, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL DB, Influx DB, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Sonarqube, Scikit Learn, Snowflake, Tableau, SAP BO WebI, Grafana, Kubernetes, Openshift, and AWS.

Typical programming languages and frameworks

Typical programming languages you use are Angular, C++, Java, Javascript, Jupyter, Kotlin, .NET, PowerShell, Python, Scala, Typescript, XML, XSLT.

Our Tools

You mainly use Confluence, Figma, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, and Terraform

Meet our colleagues

Most interesting about Digital & Technology is that it changes our entire way of living. Do you remember the time before the Internet existed? Now, any information you want is available in a couple of seconds all over the world – that changes everything!

João

Lead Software Engineer, Oporto

Meet our colleagues

For me, joining Kuehne+Nagel was an amazing opportunity for professional growth. As an outsider in the tech industry, I took a leap of faith when I joined and I'm glad I did. Having learned so much about technology at Kuehne+Nagel, I'm now a team lead and a product owner for an internal tool that has an impact all around the world. I have a fantastic team of smart professionals who are just brilliant people, and we have so much fun together.

Dmitri

Business Intelligence Specialist, Tallinn

Meet our colleagues

We are spread all around the world, which might be challenging but also impressive. We are a huge company with unlimited possibilities for creating solutions, which is impressive for us developers. Before I started with Kuehne+Nagel, I had never heard about its Digital & Technology department. I did not know that it has a huge department in Hamburg with highly qualified engineers here and globally."