Director Software Engineering

• Partners with the product team to establish the priorities across an entire portfolio of product groups.
• Manages software engineering teams that design, build, and maintain solutions across multiple technology products; ensures the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions.
• Builds and maintains partnerships with all functions to ensure technology team members understand business needs, functional specifications, and user journeys.
• Provides insight and guidance and resolves cross-functional issues that are escalated throughout the application development, testing, implementation, and support lifecycle across an entire portfolio of product groups.
• Ensures the creation of standard operating procedures, objectives and key results, and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications within a product group.
• Ensures mechanisms are in place that allows teams to resolve production issues within defined standard level agreements.
• Monitors testing activities from a high level, ensuring that all testing efforts align to the teams testing strategy; meets with testing teams when necessary to review the progress of testing efforts.
• Responsible for departmental budget and forecasting decisions and budget allocation; ensures technical solutions are delivered and maintained in a cost-effective manner.
• Partners with cross-functional leaders to ensure technology solutions built by the engineering team align to overall architectural and business standards.
• Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers.
• Influences and establishes best-in-class engineering practices through solid design decisions and tools.
• Sets goal, strategies, and budgets and oversees the deployment of large/enterprise-scale initiatives and encourages a data-driven culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of applications.
• Manages a portfolio of services or applications and provides resources in support of the applications by leveraging partnerships with technology teams, vendors, and business leaders.
• Leads teams through all technology solution development phases by ensuring teams understand and adhere to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls; ensures team members are trained in software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, models, and processes.
• Leads a team in support of achieving the company s mission. Manages performance and fosters an inclusive environment to help associates achieve their potential.

Required Qualifications:
10 years of IT experience in software engineering or related field
10 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
5 years of experience leading global technology teams with direct report responsibility
3 years of experience working closely with senior leadership
3 years of experience managing operational and/or financial budgets, including the managing of third-party vendors and/or software providers
Bachelors Degree in business administration, computer science, computer information systems (CIS), engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)

Preferred Qualifications:
5 years of experience in software development in an agile environment
3 years of experience in a leadership role of a large matrixed organization
3 years of experience managing the development, implementation, and integration of multiple and/or complex business systems within an organization
3 years of experience in IT management in the retail industry
2 years of second level IT management experience
Masters Degree in business administration, computer science, CIS, engineering, or related field