Senior eCommerce Product Engineering Functional Lead

One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess is the world’s leading international premium cruise line and tour company, carrying millions of guests each year to hundreds of destinations around the globe.  We give our guests the Medallion Class experience others simply can’t. The Love Boat promises something for everyone.

We’re looking for an amazing eCommerce Product Engineering Senior Functional Lead, to fill this role, which is based in our Fort Lauderdale office. You’ll be responsible for ownership of the customer online experience portfolio including vacation search capabilities, cruise reservations, reservation amend functionality, pre-cruise purchases and content management systems. The role requires deep technical expertise in building modern, responsive Web applications, setting standards for the organization, and building the proper architecture. A customer mindset, positive relationships throughout the organization and excellent delivery are key attributes for this role. You will also be responsible for delivery and the evolution of agile best practices, unit test automation and continuous improvement within the ecommerce organization as well as product quality

Here’s a summary of what Princess is looking for in its eCommerce Product Engineering Senior Functional Lead. Is this you?

Responsibilities

• Oversee development, testing, and deployment of high-quality software solutions, while ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.
• Use engineering principles to conduct technical investigations involved with the modification of material; component; or process specifications and requirements.
• Responsible for all aspects of eCommerce Web product engineering – including vacation smart search, cruise online reservations, amend reservations, pre-cruise purchases and CMS modules to drive innovation and increase direct and onboard revenue. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders and partners (ie PMO, IT, Enterprise Architeture, Marketing, Security and Data teams) to ensure technology alignment, product success and predictable delivery. 
• Collaborate with the downstream Operations Team to drive operational excellence for our eCommerce Websites. Accountable for ensuring availability, performance and compliance of customer-facing web sites.
• Recruit, onboard, provide continuous mentorship and coaching to junior team members of the scrum teams. 
• Develop team target metrics. 
• Track the performance of the scrum teams, implementing performance improvement strategies when necessary. Oversee quality control and lifecycle management processes, ensuring their continual improvement.
• Manage software development processes across multiple application development disciplines for software technology product lines.
• Develop risk identification and mitigation strategies associated with the architecture and coding process.
• Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and excellence while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our product development organization. 
• Establish and ensure best practices for the software development lifecycle including solution engineering, build, and test, inclusive of test automation. 
• Manage vendor relationship for sourcing Web engineering talent, managed services and strategic partners (ie Adobe, Akamai). Leveraging on-site/offshore resources for efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree - Engineering, Computer Science/Mathematics
• 10+ years delivering technology products
• 5+ years translating E2E engineering solutions into functional documentation 
• 8+ years delivering large scale consumer facing system solutions
• 3+ years of functional Adobe Experience Manager, SAP Hybris, MongDB and Algolia experience required
• 5-8 years of experience in functional aspect of technologies like Javascript, Ajax, Bootstrap, React, Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL
• Proven ability to build productive collaborative relationships, motive team members, and instill a positive can-do attitude
• Must have strong experience leading engineering/technology professionals 
• Strong understanding of Web UI Technologies and frameworks such as React and Angular
• Proven experience on Product Testing and driving result through iterative testing
• Strong experience and understanding of Serverless Architecture
• Strong experience with REACT
• Strong experience and understanding of Event Driven Architecture
• Experience in the planning, analysis, and design of software application strategies
• Extensive knowledge of the system development life cycle, the customer area’s functions and systems, and application program development alternatives
• Should have a deep understanding of many soft