Director, Software Engineering (P4130)

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Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United Stated and with the Kroger Family of Companies (i.e. H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Director, Software Engineering (P4130)

RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Execute the vision, goals, priorities, and work alongside the team to accomplish them. Ensure high-quality technical solutions.
-Leading and coaching direct reports in the performance of responsibilities; providing ongoing feedback to direct reports and completing performance reviews.
-Drive continuous improvement to deliver solutions that are at the forefront of industry leading techniques while also adhering to best practices.
-Directly support technical mentoring and growth of team’s technical maturity through pairing and other coaching techniques. Grow new mentors from emerging talent.
-Support a culture of learning and development. Promote and enable technical skills development in support of high-quality code components, systems, and solutions.
-Partner with Data Scientists, Engineers, and Product talent to ensure our solutions deliver against requirements, scope, and system deployment needs.
-Help lead the technical vision and strategy for prompt engineering, ensuring innovative and efficient approaches to drive excellence in data products, scaled sciences, and/or AI based products. 
-Building relationships with key partners within the business and Kroger Technology organization to share best practices, help accelerate the growth of both organizations, and deliver joint initiatives as appropriate.
-Leverage a servant leadership approach in the recruiting, motivating, mentoring, and growing of world-class teams and creating a followership that teams want to work with.
-Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels in both verbal and written communications, preparing / presenting strategic visions and presentations to executive leadership team.
-Driving for continuous improvement in operational effectiveness within Engineering and across 84.51°.
-Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
-Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or another heavily technical program
-10+ years’ experience in a hands on technical role leading/mentoring by example
-Be a change agent and foster a learn by doing environment
-Strong software development leadership skills bringing industry proven best practices to fruition
-Experience building enterprise level software solutions with solid proficiencies in performance tuning and debugging.
-Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving skills. Strong analytical mind.
-Comfortable with thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo, respectfully and courageously, to deliver results in a dynamic environment. 
-Mastery in many of the following tech skills and principles:
-Agile Experience
-Git
CI/CD
-Automated Testing
 
PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
-Knowledgeable and experienced in the following tech skills and principles:
-Technical Management experience
-SOA and Microservice design principlesPython

-Experience with Azure or other cloud platform
-Experience with MLOps/LLMOps patterns and solutions  
-Experience with Databricks, ML Flow, PySpark
-Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Harness or related tools Experience with AKS a plus
-DevOps principles

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