RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Assumes full accountability for medium-scale projects, providing leadership, employing suitable project management techniques, managing risks, and ensuring consistent communication with stakeholders.

- Ensures timely project and product quality reviews, adherence to established budgets and timelines, and formal acceptance of deliverables by the relevant stakeholders.

- Addresses problems and issues for stakeholders, ensuring resolutions, corrective actions, and the sharing of lessons learned.

- Engages with stakeholders, utilizing feedback to measure effectiveness and foster enhanced relationships.

- Monitors vendor performance, ensuring adherence to contract terms, security requirements, and customer satisfaction.

- Engages with vendors proactively to address incidents, performance issues, and implements service improvement initiatives.

- 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.

QUALIFICATIONS :

- 3-5 years experience in Information Technology with experience related to application development, IT operations management, cloud infrastructure management, project/program management, or technology consulting

- 3-5 years experience in implementing retail technology solutions (for example: POS, Store Inventory, WMS, Labor Management, OMS, BOPIS, SFS), providing a secure, cohesive, consistent personalized customer experience across all physical & digital customer touchpoints

- Experience in building highly productive engineering teams responsible for delivery, uptime, stability and operations of all applications and systems in a high-growth, omni-channel retailer

- Expertise in formulating and implementing operating processes, procedures and routines, such as incident management, automated monitoring and alerting, capacity planning, build versus buy decision making

- Expertise in open-source software development languages & frameworks such as Java, Spring, NO-SQL DB's, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Cloud computing

- Experience in Governance, Risk and Compliance management, specifically around implementing automated controls, security monitoring, enabling audit trails, securing data and complying to company's SOX and audit policies

- Expertise in building and deploying secure applications in a multi-cloud footprint (AWS, Azure, GCP or Oracle cloud)

- Expertise driving efficiencies across the application footprint through automation leveraging CI/CD and DevSecOps (shift-left) methodologies

- Highest level of personal integrity, and the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and exude the appropriate level of judgment and maturity