Software Engineer Manager – Managed Services

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Company: Macy’s
Location: Johns Creek, GA 30097

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Job Overview:

Macy’s Technology is seeking a motivated Software Engineering Manager. The Manager of Software Engineering will drive the development of technology and system solutions to address business needs, and manage all resources.
The manager will be in charge of building and maintaining world class applications and services and keep them stable, scalable and available, both through internal development and managing outside vendors. The manager will be responsible to deliver in a lean and fast manner, tirelessly looking for improvements, and setting new challenges to energize the team. This leader will partner with other technical and business functions across the enterprise, involved in the strategy and governance, making the right and balanced technical decisions that take into account delivery cost, predictability, and above all, business values. This leader will establish and enforce SLA’s with vendors. Perform other duties as assigned.

Essential Functions:
  • Ensures effective planning, organizing, prioritizing and delegating assignments to direct reports and team members. Through continual analysis of the workload and personnel needs of their team(s) and organizational unit, meet deadlines. Responsible for team results on quality measurements, including on-time delivery, meeting deadlines, and adherence to policy and procedures.
  • Develops and executes strategic plans in collaboration with the appropriate stakeholders. Ability to build and establish solid working relationships by providing timely, accurate and high quality information to peers, subordinates, upper management and/or customers.
  • Demonstrates appropriate functional knowledge and skills relevant to operational area.
  • Advises MST senior management on strategic plans and improvements to systems and processes. Partners with customers to develop and execute business vision and strategic plan.
  • Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to identify, recommend, and implement improvements to systems and processes. Ensures compliance with existing processes and standards.
  • Establishes and maintains a unit structure and staffing to effectively accomplish the organization’s goals and objectives; employs, trains, manages, and counsels unit staff. Develops, motivates, empowers, and evaluates team to expand professional, management, leadership, and technical skills. Responsible for ensuring continued success of the team members within their functional work area.
  • Accountable for the application feature assisting in developing application roadmap and delivery of the associated initiatives.
  • Managing resource allocations, planning resource needs and on-boarding new resources to effectively staff the delivery team and accomplish business goals.
  • Coach, mentor and develop a high performing motivated engineering team, providing career development planning and opportunities.
  • Evolves application maturity in automation, operations, stability, and support.
  • Maintains awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software tools to platform development.
  • Consistently demonstrates regular, dependable attendance and punctuality.
Qualifications:

Education/Experience:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree preferred and 8-10 years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Strong leadership profile and excellent prioritization and negotiation skills, capable of managing multiple streams of work in parallel with aggressive timelines.
  • Candidate must have strong organizational and leadership capabilities, and have solid track record of leading engineering team and delivering enterprise class products. Candidate must also have broad and deep technical understanding of the technologies in this field.
  • 6+ years of experience designing and developing web and enterprise applications using Java/J2EE technologies.
  • Experience with highly scalable, high performance, 100% stable Java applications.
  • Experience managing third party service vendors highly preferred.
  • 3+ years of experience leading the team in Agile environment with hands-on coding.
Communication Skills:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Mathematical Skills:
  • Basic math functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and analytical skills.
Reasoning Ability:
  • Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision and make sound decisions.
Physical Demands:
  • This position involves regular walking, standing, sitting for extended periods of time, hearing, and talking.
  • May occasionally involve stooping, kneeling, or crouching.
  • May involve close vision, color vision, depth perception, focus adjustment, and viewing computer monitor for extended periods of time.
  • Involves manual dexterity for using keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment.
  • May involve moving or lifting items under 10 pounds.

Work Hours:
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs.
Company Profile:

Macy’s Inc. is one of the nation’s premier retailers. With fiscal 2016 sales of $25.778 billion and approximately 140,000 employees, the company operates more than 700 department stores under the nameplates Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, and approximately 125 specialty stores that include Bloomingdale’s The Outlet, Bluemercury and Macy’s Backstage. Macy’s, Inc. operates stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico, as well as macys.com, bloomingdales.com and bluemercury.com. Bloomingdale’s stores in Dubai and Kuwait are operated by Al Tayer Group LLC under license agreements. Macy’s, Inc. has corporate offices in Cincinnati, Ohio and New York, New York.

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.