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Director, Software Engineering (P3519)

New York City, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Feb 2023

About the role

84.51° Overview:

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help the Kroger company, consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliated partners create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.

Powered by cutting edge science, we leverage 1st party retail data from nearly 1 of 2 US households and 2BN+ transactions to fuel a more customer-centric journey utilizing 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.

Join us at 84.51°!

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Director, Software Engineering

As a senior technical resource, you are seen as a technical expert in your area and a leader. You will be expected to participate as an individual contributor and/or lead a team of developers in the design and implementation of solutions and applications. As part of this role, you will also provide technical insight and mentoring to staff in order to deliver quality service and solutions. You will contribute to the development, tests, support and deployment tasks for software applications and phases of the entire 84.51° SDLC, including external and internal applications, as well as process improvement activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Execute the vision, goals, priorities, and work alongside the team to accomplish them. Ensure high-quality technical solutions.
Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members. Drive the technical aspects of solutions where needed including proofs of concepts, sizings, designs, implementation, and testing.
Drive continuous improvement to deliver solutions that are at the forefront of industry leading techniques while also adhering to best practices.
Directly support technical mentoring and growth of team’s technical maturity through pairing and other coaching techniques. Grow new mentors from emerging talent.
Support a culture of learning and development. Promote and enable technical skills development in support of high quality code components, systems, and solutions.
Work in partnership with Product and Architecture teams to derive technical requirements from business requirements and identify risk areas.
Support recruitment and resource plans of the team to hire great development talent; including; recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding/training
Escalate concerns to leadership, as needed, and remove roadblocks for the team
An advocate for 84.51 delivery methodology.
Participate in and contribute to Agile team ceremonies; including: Backlog Reviews, Retrospectives, Architectural Reviews, team and system demos
Lead Communities of Practice.
Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or another heavily technical program
10+ years’ experience in a hands on technical role leading/mentoring by example
Be a change agent and foster a learn by doing environment
Strong software development leadership skills bringing industry proven best practices to fruition
Experience building enterprise level software solutions with solid proficiencies in performance tuning and debugging.
Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving skills. Strong analytical mind.
Comfortable with thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo, respectfully and courageously, to deliver results in a dynamic environment.
Mastery in many of the following tech skills and principles:
Agile Experience
Java used in Web based solutions
Spring Boot
Angular/React
Git
SOA and Microservice design principles
CI/CD
Automated Testing