Senior Director Front-End Engineering

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

Seeking an experienced and Engineering Leader with a strong background in user experience design, construction, test, delivery and implementation. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving high velocity engineering, and has competencies in technical, strategic, and interpersonal skills. As a Front-End Engineering Leader, you will lead a team of skilled professionals, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, secure, and performant engineering solutions. 

 

Do you like building modern digital applications? Do you geek out about cloud services and cloud application architecture? Ever wanted to be part of building and shaping the engineering culture in a product driven, user-centered-design organization? Well, this is your chance. Here at Southern Glazer’s, we are embarking on a bold journey to transform and revolutionize the ways in which digital technology is used in the beverage alcohol industry. We’ve assembled a world class group of product and technology leaders that are bringing this vision to life. To do this we need to build a best-in-class digital technology engineering organization. 

 

We are building a portfolio of web and mobile applications, as well as modernizing existing applications so that we can deliver software the business needs with speed, while maintaining and strengthening quality and security. To do this, we need you. We need software engineers that think like product managers. We need software engineers that obsess over observability and know how to take advantage of all that modern cloud platform like Azure and AWS have to offer. In short, we need people that are passionate about building high-performing digital experiences, who know what it takes to build products that surprise, delight and improve the lives of users. 
 

Essential Skills

• Leadership and mentorship: Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop technology managers and engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Strategic thinking: Strong ability to develop and execute strategic plans, aligning technology initiatives with business objectives and customer needs.
• Technical proficiency: Deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies, web and mobile development frameworks, and modern SDLC practices.
• Problem-solving: Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify challenges, analyze solutions, and implement effective strategies to overcome obstacles.
• Collaboration and influence: Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, influence decision-making processes, and drive technology innovation across the organization.
• Agile methodology: Proficiency in agile software development methodologies, with a commitment to implementing agile best practices within engineering teams.
   

Primary Responsibilities

• Oversee a multi-disciplinary and multi-team group of software engineers, implementing modern Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices within agile software delivery pods.
• Cultivate a high-performing, achievement-oriented culture that supports psychological safety and fosters an intentional, driven, and enjoyable work environment.
• Exhibit exemplary leadership qualities, showing what it means to be a high-integrity partner across IT, business units, and shared service functions.
• Collaborate in the creation of SGWS’s future state software product/platform delivery model, ensuring alignment with cloud-native environment requirements and digit