Job Description
The primary purpose of this role is to oversee the management of multiple application portfolios and provide resources in support of those portfolios by leveraging partnerships with IT teams (e.g., Operations, Infrastructure, Architecture, Quality Assurance, Product Management), vendors, and business leaders.
This includes responsibility for directing and overseeing technical teams in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions. This role owns and leads the work across the largest and most complex capabilities for the organization.
This role works closely with senior business leaders and across IT teams in order to ensure the delivery and performance of business solutions.
This is a leader of people who clears obstacles for his/her team while empowering and enabling others to solve complex technical and business problems. To be successful, the individual in this role must bring a strong combination of business and technical acumen and be able to provide solutions that balance the unique needs of both the business and Technology.
Key Responsibilities :
Partners with the product team to establish the priorities for multiple portfolios and product groups
Manages software engineering teams that design, build and maintain technology products across a complete portfolio of services and applications; accountable for the overall health of the portfolio
Builds and maintains partnerships with all functions to ensure technology team members understand business needs, functional specifications, and user journeys; articulates the technology vision to the team
Provides insight and guidance, and resolves cross-functional issues that are escalated throughout the application development, testing, implementation, and support lifecycle (across portfolios and product groups)
Ensures the creation of SOPs, KPIs, and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications across a portfolio of product groups
Hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; monitor team/individual’s morale and engagement to maintain highly effective and collaborative environments; drives the talent strategy and best practices across the team
Ensures mechanisms are in place that allow teams to resolve production issues within defined SLAs; ensures that SLA breach issues don't recur
Establishes a sound and comprehensive testing strategy and ensures the team executes against this strategy consistently
Responsible for departmental budget and forecasting decisions, and budget allocation; ensures technical solutions are delivered and maintained in a cost-effective manner
Responsible for overseeing teams that develop, implement, maintain, support and scale robust, reliable and secure business and enterprise software solutions
Partners with cross-functional leaders and Enterprise Architecture to ensure technology solutions built by the engineering team align to overall architectural and business standards
Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers
Influences and establishes best in class engineering practices through solid design decisions and tools
Sets goals, strategies, budgets and oversees the deployment of large/enterprise scale initiatives and encourages a data-driven culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of applications
Manages multiple portfolios of services or applications and provides resources in support of the applications by leveraging partnerships with technology teams, vendors, and business leaders
Leads teams through all technology solution development phases by ensuring teams understand and adhere to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls; ensures team members are trained in SDLC methodologies, models, and processes
Provides leadership to the team by attracting and hiring talented individuals, setting goals and communicating clear expectations, providing timely and constructive feedback as well as meaningful developmental opportunities, managing performance, providing resources and support as needed, and sponsoring and leading team members through change
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
12 years of IT experience
8 years of experience in software engineering or related field
Experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
7 years of experience leading global technology teams with direct report responsibility
4 years of experience working closely with senior leadership
5 years of experience in managing operational and/or financial budgets, including the managing of 3rd party vendors and/or software providers
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS, Engineering or related field
Experience in a leadership role in a large matrixed organization
Experience managing the development, implementation, and integration of multiple and/or complex business systems within an organization
IT consulting experience
Experience in IT Management in the retail industry
5 years of experience in software development in an agile environment
Second level IT management experience
Job ID
2638185BR
Job Category
Technology
Employment type
Full time
Job Classification
In-Office
Location
Bengaluru
Sr. Director, Software Engineering | Lowe's Companies Inc
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