Director, Digital Engineering

At Five Below our growth is a result of the people who embrace our purpose: We know life is way better when you are free to Let Go & Have Fun in an amazing experience, filled with unlimited possibilities, priced so low, you can always say yes to the newest, coolest stuff! Just ask any of our over 20,000 associates who work at Five Below and they’ll tell you there’s no other place like it. It all starts with our purpose and then, The Five Below Way, which is our values and behaviors that each and every associate believes in.

It’s all about culture at Five Below, making this a place that can inspire you as much as you inspire us with big ideas, super energy, passion, and the ability to make the workplace a WOWplace!

POSITION SUMMARY

The Engineering team, organized by product groups, is responsible for the architecture, design, development and operations of all systems and applications supporting Five Below’s Retail and Ecommerce footprint.  Accordingly, we have Merchandising and Inventory Management, Stores, Supply Chain & Logistics, and Digital, BI & Data Platform, DevOps Engineering and Tools. 

Five Below systems/applications supporting business functions are a combination of enterprise solutions and custom software built to create a seamless experience for our customers, driven by data assets, Infrastructure and cloud at its epicenter.  

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Takes full ownership of complex projects, ensuring definition, documentation, and the use of appropriate project management tools and processes.
• Oversees project resources, financials, and effectively manages the expectations of key stakeholders.
• Manage department budgets, invoices and allocations, inclusive of alignment to appropriate business initiative/capability
• Identifies and addresses stakeholder communication needs, translating engagement strategies into actionable deliverables.
• Serves as a primary contact for stakeholders, facilitating open discussions, promoting understanding, and disseminating key technical and business information.
• Oversees vendor relationships, ensuring performance aligns with key indicators, and addresses potential disputes or conflicts proactively.
• Utilizes vendor performance data for benchmarking, informs development roadmaps with vendor expertise, and manages service improvements while considering contract negotiations.
• Contributes to solution architectures across specific domains, evaluating alternatives based on cost, performance, and scalability, while documenting key decisions.
• Crafts specifications for both cloud and on-premises components and ensures that solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, including security, while supporting project and change initiatives with technical plans.
• Ensures team follows the corporate information security policies, standards, and guidelines, ensuring architectural principles are applied during design to reduce risk and driving their adoption and adherence.
• Develop code, scripts, and designs per business requirements when needed.
• Conduct and lead design, code and configuration reviews.
• Participate in Agile rituals –daily standups, iteration planning, story huddles, retrospectives, creation of burn up chart’s inceptions, document technical work in technical stories using JIRA board, and estimate (using agile points/story sizing techniques) the work effort required to complete those stories.
• Design complex software applications, components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology.
• Develops road maps to communicate future development activity.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to on shore and offshore team members
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis and stay ahead of emerging trends
• Oversee/coordinate supporting technical work required with other Five Below IT teams, including infrastructure (e.g., network, DevOps) and upstream and downstream system owners (warehouse management systems, order management systems, InfoSec, etc.)
• Collaborate with product and system teams to ensure thorough test coverage and identify areas for process enhancement.
• Analyze and report on test outcomes, including results, challenges, and risks, even when reviewing others' work
• Plans and drives development projects which support the organization’s objectives and plans
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders and to handle functional and non-functional requirements.
• Leads the design and refinement of complex software configurations for deployment, collaborates on me