Chief Technology Transformation Officer

About our home improvement company

We are a leading Fortune 100 retailer serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year sales of more than $83 billion, we operate over 1,700 home improvement stores and employ approximately 300,000 associates.

Job Summary

The primary purpose of this role is to lead and participate in immersive experience transformation while coaching and building technology culture across teams and portfolios. The individual in this role will primarily focus on designing and implementing practices in one of two areas - Agile or Engineering.

• Plans and implements strategies for adapting engineering and/or agile best practices in an immersive learning environment.
• Collaborates closely with other coaches to enable Agile culture and engineering excellence in teams.
• BUILDS RELATIONSHIPS WITH MANAGERS AND DIRECTORS AND PERIODICALLY SHARES PROGRESS ALONG WITH RISK/IMPEDIMENTS /CONCERNS OBSERVED DURING COACHING EFFORTS.
• Makes recommendations to help establish and drive relentless improvement at the team and portfolio level.
• Continuously improves through learning new tools, technologies, and best practices and shares learnings with others.
• Contributes as a leader in Agile, product, and/or Engineering Communities of Practice (CoPs).

Engineering Coach Responsibilities

• Designs and implements strategies for adoption and maturity of DevOps and Engineering practices in an immersive learning environment.
• Helps assess the software code base and technical debt.
• Provides technical direction and guidance with roadmap to improve the DevOps and Engineering best practices across portfolios and in multiple teams.
• Influences Advisory Consulting portfolio VPs on engineering plan within transformation plan.
• Partners and guides Launchpad (US) and Leap Ahead (BLR) program, Engineering CoP, L&D, offerings.
• Trains and coaches teams on DevOps practices, tools, and technologies, helping them to build continuous integration, continuous deployment, continuous testing, continuous integration, etc.
• Trains and coaches teams on Engineering practices, branching strategy, testing methodologies and approaches, TDD, measurement, dashboards, etc.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, MIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
• 8 years of total IT experience
• Experience working in a global collaborative environment
• Excellent listener with outstanding communication, facilitation, and influencing skills
• Experience working in a global team environment

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, MIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
• Experience in the Retail industry

• 4 years of Agile Coaching experience (specific to the Agile Coach role)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or similar (specific to the Agile Coach role)
• 2 years of experience coaching Agile teams in a multinational corporation (MNC) environment (specific to the Agile Coach role)
• Experience in large scale enterprise transformation using one or more Agile approaches (specific to the Agile Coach role)
• Experience with any scaling Agile framework like SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum of Scrum etc. (specific to the Agile Coach role)
• Experience or understanding of Design Thinking or Product Discovery (specific to the Agile Coach role)

• 8 years of experience in software development (specific to the Engineering Coach role)
• Deep hands-on experience in building enterprise software solutions (specific to the Engineering Coach role)
• Deep hands-on experience in DevOps practices, tools, and technology, building CI/CD pipelines TDD, pair programming, etc. (specific to the Engineering Coach role)