Director, Release Engineering (macys.com)
Macy's Inc. - San Francisco, California
Job Overview:
Our Digital Technology team is the proud owner of all platforms and services and functions needed to power our digital experiences and engagement for millions of Macy’s customers every day. We are passionate technologists who thrive on simple and elegant architecture and agility. We own the architecture and development of both back-end and front-end components. Innovation is our core to stay ahead of our customer and the industry engineering landscape. We are working on Restful Services, Big-Fast data, Social Commerce, Scalability & High availability, Diagnostics, and embracing various new open source technologies. We are working on building our innovations lab to foster empowerment of our engineers as we build next generation roadmap for our customers. Come get challenged in a fast, agile environment with other A- players.
As a Director of Automation Engineering you would be leading multiple release engineering and systems integration teams for the Macys.com and Bloomingdale.com ecommerce platforms, hire and retain the best talent for the teams. You would be in charge of building and maintaining world-class services/automation platforms and keep them stable, scalable and available. You will be partnering with cross-functional engineering teams to come up with the technology strategy & guidelines and then oversee their adherence across multiple critical projects.
This role will be reporting to VP of Shared Services for Macys Digital Technology.
Essential Functions:
• Technical leader and manager of the release engineering teams. Responsible for hiring, retaining and mentoring talent;
• Own the technology roadmap for the release engineering systems and responsible for delivering successful projects for these systems;
• Responsible for portfolio and resource planning for your areas and planning and managing budget for your teams and projects;
• Partner and Collaborate with various cross functional teams like product management, process, project and program management, infrastructure, operations and business teams etc;
• Ensure successful execution of technical strategies, architecture guidelines and standard by efficient collaboration with architecture, development, DevOps and other teams;
• Own and manage the stability, availability and performance for your applications/systems.
Qualifications:
Education/Experience:
• 7 – 10 year of management experience at a Senior Manager/Director level in a release engineering/DevOps/Application development space supporting high volume consumer facing digital products
• 5 years of experience in managing and overseeing enterprise level programs which require extensive collaboration across various groups in a matrix organization
• 5 years proven leadership experience, coaching, developing and engaging technology teams
• 3 years of experience with open source technology technologies preferably within a high volume eCommerce environment
• Experience in operating high volume web sites in a distributed/multi-location and public cloud environment
• Strong understanding and demonstrated experience in agile software development in a fast paced internet delivery organization
• Devops mentality and committed to building a highly collaborative Devops culture and organization
• Demonstrated experience in using release automation tools and frameworks to deliver on-demand non-production and production environments
• Knowledge of software development process, tools, and practices
• Experienced in delivering software products leveraging public cloud IaaS and PaaS models
• Demonstrated knowledge of solving the problems of scale engineering for large web sites
• Experience with web serving technologies (apache, nginx, varnish), configuration management systems (puppet, chef), load balancing, proxy servers, CDN technologies like Akamai, Fastly, AWS CDN etc
Communication Skills:
• Demonstrated ability to lead both technical and non-technical discussions with both technical and non-technical end users
Reasoning Ability:
• Strong skills in critical thinking, problem solving, troubleshooting and analysis
Other Skills:
• Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment with potentially conflicting priorities
Company Profile:
As the fastest growing part of Macy's Inc. business, macys.com is achieving record sales and broadening our workforce. With offices in New York and San Francisco, macys.com is the best of all worlds. The entrepreneurial thinking of a Web business complements the stability and support of a national brand. Creativity and ingenuity partner with business acumen and tech savvy to build a unique business poised for continued growth. Employees at macys.com have long term opportunities and are encouraged to utilize their Supervisors and Human Resources for cross-functional movement to further their careers. At macys.com we are committed to giving back to the community by partnering with local charitable organizations. By skillfully combining the power of the Internet with the best in retailing, macys.com is reaching new heights.
This job description is not all inclusive. Macy’s Inc. reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. Macy's Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Macy's Inc., including Macy's and Bloomingdale's, will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with SF PC Art. 49 and LA MC ch. XVIII Art. 9.
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About Macy's Inc.
Macy's, Inc., with corporate offices in Cincinnati and New York, is one of the nation's premier retailers, with fiscal 2015 sales of $27.079 billion. The company operates about 870 stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico unde... more
