SOFTWARE ENGINEER MANAGER - IT Merchandising

POSITION PURPOSEAs a Software Engineer Manager, you will be given a chance to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent. In addition, you will be given the chance to work with our most strategic vendors to ensure that 3rd party tools and applications are readily available to all product teams that are interested in using them.This role support the team directly involved with the building and maintainence of applications that support our Merchandise Execution Team (MET). These applicatons will be tailored for mobile devices such as tablets and other hand held technologies.MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES30% - Delivery & Execution:

Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions

Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases

Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms

Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment

Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise

Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise

Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office

10% - Support & Enablement:

Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams

Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams

Provides application support for software running in production

Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team

50% - People:

Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers

Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team

Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback

Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests

Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices

Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams

Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

10% - Learning:

Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations

Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

NATURE AND SCOPE

Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTSEnvironment:

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant condition

Travel:

Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Additional Environmental Job Requirements:MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Must be eighteen years of age or older.

Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Additional Minimum Qualifications:

Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)

Must be legally permitted to work

Years of Relevant Work Experience: 5 yearsPhysical Requirements:

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles. Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with recent versions of both Angular and React, preferably migrating from one to the other

Cloud knowledge around PCF and/or GCP

Experience replatforming applications to a modern stack

Deep understanding of RESTful API's

Expertise with Spring Boot based microservices

Strong foundational SQL knowledge

Proven track record of innovation

Proven ability to partner closely with the business side to understand needs and create functionality

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:

Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs

Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders

Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals

Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization s goals

Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences

Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization s goals

Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the team succeed

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.