D&T Manager – Software Engineering

India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

Shift Timngs - Regular 

About General Mills
We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. The awards and recognition we’ve received showcase our commitment to be a force for good:

• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2022
• America’s Most Responsible Companies, Newsweek 2022
• 100 Best Corporate Citizens, 3BL 2021
• Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality, Human Rights Campaign 2022
• 100 Best Companies, Seramount 2021
• Diversity Best Practices Leading Inclusion Index, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Dads, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Multicultural Women, Seramount 2021
• Top 10 Companies for Executive Women, Seramount 2021
• Military Friendly Employer Bronze, VIQTORY 2021
• Best Place to Work, Canada, Greater Toronto, 2021
• Top 50 – India’s Best Workplaces for Women, 2021
• Top Workplaces in Brazil, 2021
• Asia’s Best Workplaces, 2021

Hungry for What’s Next
We exist to make food the world loves, and it shows. Our passion for people, doing good and creating delicious food has energized us for over 150 years. Breaking away from the pack is how we win, so we need your unique perspectives: your quirks, ‘crazy’ ideas, rigor and insatiable curiosity to make it happen. We want people who constantly experiment, embracing the new and bold, who keep pushing to turn ideas into reality, no matter how big or small. We’ve learned becoming the undisputed leader in food means continuously reshaping, reimagining and rebuilding— that only happens when you surround yourself with those who are hungry for what’s next.

For more details check out www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Centre
General Mills India Center (GIC) operates out of Mumbai and supports the global operations of General Mills. The center was established in 2005 and has grown in strength. Today, we are a vibrant and diverse team of over 1500 employees that come together to champion business services for the various global entities of General Mills in the areas of Business Operations, Analytics Consulting, Logistics, Finance, IT Development & Technology Consulting, Consumer & Market Intelligence, Sales Capabilities, Research & Development.

Digital and Technology team
Digital and Technology is the largest team in GIC, which focuses on understanding the latest and innovative trends in technology and leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies at General Mills. The team closely collaborates with global business teams to understand business models and assess where technology can leverage to bring efficiency and disruption. Be it AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain or Enterprise Architecture, GIC Digital and Technology has something for every technology enthusiast who wants to work here. Our MillsWorks initiative is where we bring agile scale delivery model to life. Here, business and technology teams work cohesively in pods as ONE team, driven by a singular mission and focused on delivering value for the Company. Our employees, who work on large technology projects of strategic importance, are the Digital Transformation change agents.

Our service partnerships and employee engagement are centred on advancing equity and strengthening communities. We believe in an inclusive culture and trust in the power of people who have a passion for learning and growing with technology. We believe in “Work with Heart”. Work with Heart is focused on results, not facetime. If you are passionate about the latest in technology and want to make an impact on the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company, we're waiting for you.

Job Overview
Role: D&T Manager, Software Engineering.
Location: Mumbai
The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for a passionate and strong D&T Manager for Application Development team with 15+ years of experience to manage the team of software engineers, tech leads. Candidate should have minimum 5+ years of experience as a manger leading a team size of medium to large. Should have strong ability to see the whole picture and to focus on the important details in a pragmatic and result oriented way. Should have experience development using Microsoft.Net tech stack (C#, ASP.net Core, .Net Core, API development) and JavaScript based frameworks like ReactJS, Angular. Proven track record in designing and developing high quality, scalable and performant applications in alignment with organisation goals. Strong people management skills with focus on hiring, attracting, and retaining right talent for the development team.

Role Responsibilities

70% of Time Manager of People Responsibilities:
- Mentor and guide team in achieving individual and organisation goals.
- Hiring and grooming team members.
- Set goals and objectives for team members for achievement of operational results. Manage mid-year and annual performance feedback discussions.
- Plan, prioritize and execute development activities across multiple teams.
- Reviews project scope and requirements to determine the necessary level of work and to staff projects properly thereby taking care of resource management.
- Provide support and coaching for direct reports.
- Develop and increase team performance and collaboration across organization.
- Effectively manage vendor engagements there by taking care of vendor contractor resource onboarding and offboarding.

30% of Time Technical and Operational Responsibilities
- Create software development strategies and approaches in alignment with overall organization goals.
- Help design, implement, and document procedures for process control, process improvement, development best practices.
- Participating in the delivery status calls for critical projects to monitor the status of the projects closely and highlight the issues to the senior management thus helping the team to mitigate the risk proactively.
- Define metrics and perform metrics analysis for all the projects to improve quality and share the metric results with senior management and stakeholders.
- Stay current with technology trends and advancements to ensure team uses the most effective tools available.

Must - have technical skills and experience
• Minimum 15 years of proven work experience in Software Development Projects.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in managing mid to large software engineering teams (team size 15+).
• Decent understanding in OOPS programming concepts and experience in programming languages like C#, JavaScript.
• Demonstrated skill in using coding standards and being an active participant in code reviews.
• Experience and understanding of unit test frameworks such as NUnit, XUnit, Api Testing, Cloud Native Microservices development and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC and multiple software engineering and testing methodologies.
• Good understanding in SQL and decent database programming.
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web development languages.
• Experience with issue tracking tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps, etc.)

Good to have skills
• GCP certification
• Microservices, API Application Development.
• Technologies – Google Cloud Platform, Big Data, AI/ML, Data Warehouse, ETL, Data Architecture.

Skill proficiency expectations

Expert level

Intermediate Level

Basic Level

· People Management.

· Software Development Best Practices Strategy.

· Vendor contractor management.

· Project Management.

· Producing Metric driven status and project health reports.

· Project Delivery and Risk Mitigation.

· C#, ASP.net Core

· API Development

· CI/CD Dev Ops.

· Unit Testing

· UI Testing.

· TSQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL

· GCP or any Cloud Services.

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.