Sr. Engineering Manager - Future Workforce Platform

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Best Buy

Why Best Buy?

Best Buy is reinventing the employee experience as it pursues its goal of becoming one of the Best Places to Work. We will do this through the development of a world class, consumer grade, digital employee experience that will empower employees to manage their career path and work life. Employees will be able to digitally learn the skills necessary for the jobs that they are passionate about and manage a flexible schedule that will allow them to work when and where they desire. Additionally, employees will be able to manage their pay and benefits as well as stay connected with the company and their work family through news and networking. To solidify its position as the destination employer of choice in retail, Best Buy will be developing cutting edge workforce technology, led with human centered design, delivered in an agile product model.

Job Overview:

Best Buy is seeking a curious and experienced Senior Engineering Manager, knowledgeable in Java backend technologies, Data Engineering, and Agile software development practices, to lead key People Technology initiatives for Best Buy.

The Senior Engineering Manager will be responsible for building and maintaining Java based microservices and JavaScript based UI components for some of the People Technology Teams. You will lead the teams that deliver services and components to provide the best digital experience for our employees.

Key position responsibilities include:

Bring a creative and innovation-driven mindset with the ability to articulate engineering design strategies related to scale, performance, security, and usability

Manage a team of Tech Leads, Developers, Test Engineers to deliver quality products on time

Manage SDLC Agile processes such as Iteration Planning, Retrospective, Design Reviews, and test planning

Work closely with different product teams and UX teams to understand the product and customer experience requirements and partner to come up with solutions that can meet the expectations

Manage multiple projects while successfully navigating competing priorities, schedules, and resources

Lead, coach, and inspire the team, while creating an inclusive team culture that enables all members of different disciplines to thrive

Provide strategic and day-to-day guidance to the product and engineering team

Make talent decisions (including selection, development, performance management, and rewards), with significant input from other capability leaders

Required Qualifications:

8 or more years of experience building highly scalable applications

2 or more years’ experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and training, engineering/development teams (formal or informal)

Preferred Qualifications:

Hands on development experience with Java, Spring and REST

Hands on development experience with Scala would be a plus

React JS or React Native experience would be a plus.

4 or more years of experience running cross-functional projects that cut across multiple engineering and product teams.

6 or more years of experience working in an agile and continuous delivery environment.

Company info

Best Buy
Website : http://www.bestbuy.com