Director, Software Engineering (e-commerce/Digital Web Technologies)

Company: GTN Technical Staffing and Consulting
Location: Garland
Posted on: February 18, 2021

Job Description:

Director, Software EngineeringDETAILSLocation:--Dallas/Fort Worth Area (Local Candidates Only) Remote Currently Due to COVID And Onsite After COVIDPosition Type:--Direct HireDirector, Software EngineeringLocation: Irving, TXWe are seeking a Software Engineering Director to lead a new/growing team of digital engineers, who are delivering high-powered, cutting-edge POS, web, and native mobile applications. You will work collaboratively with various stakeholders, vendors, and product teams to architect and create enterprise-level applications that are both scalable and robust. Ideally, we're looking for a strong leader that can excel in a fast-paced environment and bring an extensive background in full-stack development.Primary Responsibilities:-- Building, manage and lead an engineering team, focused on enterprise-level cloud commerce applications (POS, Web, Native Mobile).-- Lead application development and support vendor identification, evaluation, and selection to staff project delivery roles that meet delivery standards across quality, throughput, and budgetary return-on-investment goals from both internal and external teams.-- Partner with Digital & Enterprise Architects and Infrastructure & Operations teams to deliver technical innovations in support of emerging business needs and progressing these ideas from concepts to experiments to scaled models with focus on flexibility, reuse, and overarching extensibility.-- Develop and manage a change management process that delivers consistent cadence coordination and stakeholder acceptance throughout the enterprise.-- Champion Agile and DevOps as a means to improve operational process and increase velocity of the team.-- Define & Review global product roadmap, technical debt & architectural improvements and sequence the delivery of these appropriately.-- Own direct accountability for overall project/program delivery of your development teams and vendors, ensuring the successful execution and delivery of projects that meet scope, timing, and cost goals.-- Successfully communicate and work with brand presidents, officers, external contacts, and internal departments to perform responsibilities.-- Use and continue "paperless" document management systems.Required Attributes:-- Must be a hands-on technical leader, with in-depth experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.-- An engineering veteran in digital space having worked their way up through the programming ranks, developed great skills and instincts for creating great software.-- Application delivery (preferably eCommerce/web/Mobile app/POS/Omni-Channel Systems)-- Enterprise-scale application management.-- Organizational development, and software product management.-- IT/system product design and product strategy.-- Experience building large-scale web services, micro-services-based application in the cloud environment. *Working experience with Cloud based technology*-- Expert in leveraging and evolving a Continuous Delivery/Integration pipeline and QA Automation to drive agility.-- Successful track record of full lifecycle technical products-- Knowledgeable of architecture patterns and operational characteristics of highly available and scalable applications.-- *Must have prior experience with solutions/managing/developing commerce applications.-- Highly organized and detail-oriented. High computer literacy including strong experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook is required. -- Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines. And, a sense of humor.Education & Experience:Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or relevant field of study preferred Experience:-- 15 or more years of IT systems experience in one or more of the following areas, with demonstrated progression of responsibilities-- 5 or more years' experience in a leadership role with direct reports and people management responsibilities.-- 5 or more years of experience managing and being accountable for budgets.-- 5 or more years of experience with Agile software development.-- 5 or more years' experience in business process and/or technology implementation.-- 5 or more years' experience managing third party vendor relationships and offshore development teams to achieve business outcomes.-- 4 or more years' experience at a manager level or above delivering global IT capabilities for a multi-national company with annual budgetary responsibilities.

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