Sr. Tech Manager, Supply Chain

Company: Macy's
Location: Duluth
Posted on: September 24, 2022

Job Description:

About

Macy's is proudly America's Department Store. For more than 160 years, Macy's has served generations at every stage of their lives. Customers come to us for fashion, value and celebration. Now is an exciting time to join Macy's, Inc. The face of retail is changing, and change requires innovation.

Macy's Tech provides modern tools, platforms, and services to all parts of the business. Our team supports millions of customers in connected commerce across the technology hub at Macy's Join our team to help shape the future of e-commerce and set the pace in retail technology. Whether focused on store technology, supply chain tech, application security, merchandising systems, or the mobile app - you'll have opportunities to grow your career while finding meaningful ways to make a difference.

Job Overview

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Macy's Technology reports to the Director, and plays a key role in leading the software engineering technical direction and integration of enterprise solutions. - The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will form effective partnerships across Macy's Technology.

The Manager collaborates with various levels of stakeholders (Sr. Leadership, each department's management, project teams, Infrastructure and Field Services leaders, and enterprise architects) on architecture, requirements, and implementation of application platform features; Po ssess a combination of systems and technology experience along with strong thought leadership skill to define platform release plans that deliver key enabling features in time to support major initiatives across the enterprise; Evangelize the use of platform features in business application development across East and West Coast departments; Build and lead high performing solution architecture and engineering teams to deliver and support platform features, frameworks, and automations that provide Omni channel applications and services speed and scale; Drive platform innovation in both technology and process; Inspires the teams to achieve outstanding results in a fast paced environment.

Essential Functions

Create roadmap and define monthly release plans.

Lead the implementation of application services, frameworks, automations, and infrastructure that the departments, teams and their projects depend upon. Collaborate with architecture, compliance, stake holders, and PMs to estimate and plan work.

Support department, teams and their projects on their onboarding into application and throughout their development life cycle. Work with Technical Leads, Software architects and quality assurance engineers to resolve development roadblocks.

Evolve platform maturity in automation, operations, stability, and support.

Communicate latest platform solutions to the enterprise through case studies, standards and best practice publications, presentations, newsletters, and town hall meetings.

Maintain awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software tools to platform development.

Consistently demonstrate regular, dependable attendance & punctuality.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Competencies

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or Engineering and 8-10 years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience; Master's Degree preferred.

10+ years total experience as an engineer in a Java/J2EE environment.

5+ years management experience of guiding multiple teams with 8-12 members.

3+ years' experience with SOA development.

Strong leadership profile and excellent prioritization and negotiation skills, capable of managing multiple streams of work in parallel with aggressive timelines.

Demonstrate strong organizational and leadership capabilities, and have solid track record of leading engineering team and delivering enterprise class products. Must also have broad and deep technical understanding of the technologies in this field.

Deep technical understanding of the technologies. The list of technology includes but not limited to: Java/J2EE, Tibco BW/BE/EMS, Active Spaces, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, Kibana, Tomcat, JBoss, stream processing, RDBMS, NoSQL databases, In-memory databases, ODS, distributed processing.

Strong data management principles, around data architecture, modeling/design, data quality, security, data organization and operations.

Experience in processing large amounts of data in real-time at internet scale for operational and analytic purposes.

Competencies

--- Ability to effectively share technical information, communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of business
--- Able to juggle multiple projects - can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize time and communicate timeline to team members
--- Ability and desire to take product/project ownership
--- Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and Company needs

Communication:

Strong executive presence with ability to communicate complex messages and trade-offs and tell a compelling story; Demonstrable presentation, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Ability to influence a diverse group of stakeholders

Strong problem solver with ability to lead the team to push the solution and progress

Strong leadership skills - ability to lead people and teams including giving strength-based feedback, OKR based individual development, Hands-on coaching to help the team solve complex problems.

Other Skills:

Mathematical Skills (if applicable)

Strong technical aptitude, along with analytical skills. - Advanced statistical knowledge, including experience with application of statistic to predictive analytics, probabilistic modeling, and unstructured text analysis.

Reasoning Ability

Lead the development phase of projects, making work assignments and managing task completion. Select tools/methodologies for projects. - Commit to deliverables for scope of work. - Modify jobs and schedules for jobs as necessary.

Decision Making

Decides and prioritizes the deliverables of platform components, participates and recommends the technical direction of the platform, and influences how project teams in departments develop and support dependent applications. - Make management decisions, as well as make recommendations for advancement and promotions.

Physical Requirements

--- Requires prolonged periods of sitting, with occasional standing
--- Occasionally requires walking, bending, reaching, hearing and talking
--- Continuous use of computers and other office equipment
--- Frequently lift/move up to 10 lbs

Travel Requirements
Travel Required Occasionally

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