Director Enterprise Architecture - Remote

From Aisle to Algorithm and for All Life’s Moments, at David’s Bridal, we empower our customers and our employees to stay true to their dreams and find the one, whether that means the event or the wedding dress that matches a personal style—or the career that is a perfect fit. Join a company that dominates the products in their category – 1 out of 3 being sold by them and taking care of them with one of the highest customer service scores in retail!

If you are passionately enthusiastic, endlessly curious, and customer obsessed, say “I do” and apply today!

The Director, Enterprise Engineering is responsible for managing the work product of our Enterprise agile development team. They will be responsible for solving challenging technical problems as well as driving the overall design, build, implementation, and ongoing support of corporate, non-consumer facing solutions including ERP and supply chain systems. As the development lead, the Director will ensure that the work product of the team is of high quality and adheres to the defined architecture best practices of the company. They will take direction from the VP, Solutions Delivery for the projects and partner closely with enterprise and technical architects, the business, other development leads, as well their team members to ensure that they are driving quality and best practices for any proposed solutions the team is working on.  The Director, Enterprise Engineering will help to break down the proposed implementation into chunks of work that can be executed by the team using agile methodology and will work closely with the team to timely resolve complex issues to help maximize productivity.  They will partner with our software architects, product owners, and business owners to help to ensure that the deliverables meet the customer and business objectives of a given project as well as set an example and provide guidance and mentoring to other engineers to ensure their success and career growth.

Essential Functions:

·        Manage team members and partner with enterprise architects to develop feature and system designs, epics, and user stories, translating them into actionable items for yourself and other members.  Work closely with the product owner and business liaison to understand all functional requirements and to ensure that the work product of the team meets the customer and business objectives of the project.

·        Manage the work product of the software engineers on the agile team to ensure quality, velocity, and adherence to architectural designs and the software engineering standards of the company. Resolve technical issues on a timely basis to help ensure the continuous productivity of the team; in some cases, this will require you to lead design spikes in a project to investigate technically complex issues, identify optimal solutions, and then break these solutions into tasks that can be executed upon by the engineers.

·        Oversee the day-to-day agile process, including running stand ups, grooming sessions, demos, and retrospectives, as well as managing resource allocations within the team and across projects and measuring velocity and quality of the work deliverable.

·        Contribute valuable work-product as a software engineer on the agile development team, solving complex and challenging technical problems with little guidance or supervision. Serve as an engineering resource for software engineers on the team.

·        Manage financial budgets, organize and drive large complex projects from definition through delivery.

·        Collect complex information about systems and/or tasks and communicate clearly to align the team to efficiently execute.

·        Evaluate technology options, work with architects to document clear options, and makes recommendations on paths forward.  Be able to present these options to leaders and contributors. Along with the ability to effectively communicate both written and verbally to gain alignment.

·        Manage and negotiate with vendors of 3rd party solutions to drive effective execution.

·        Evaluate and fix any other issues on the projects that impede the progress of the team – solving those issues that are within your control and driving other team members (such as the program manager, product owner, enterprise architect or QA lead) to solve issues before they impede the progress of the software engineers.

·        Coordinate with other David’s Bridal agile development teams and/or external technology providers to ensure the delivery of their work product meets the functional and quality requirements we have defined; if this work product is a dependency for the success of your project, you will ensure its quality and timeliness so that it helps the progress of your team’s work. Help ensure adherence to the best software engineering practices, such as code reviews and the development of unit tests for the work product of the team.

·        Serve as an advocate of the agile development team helping to ensure a high functioning and cohesive team. Help foster an environment of mutual respect, accountability and excellence, and work with other team members to resolve conflicts within the team in a speedy, productive and professional manner.

·        Provide mentoring and guidance to help each software engineer contribute to the best of their abilities.

Education:

·        Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other related degree required.

Work Experience:

·        10 plus years in software development and design of highly scalable enterprise systems, including supply-chain management, HRIS, ERP and corporate systems domain.

Skills and Abilities:

·        Extensive knowledge in supply-chain management software, ETL processes and SQL Service, as well as experience managing BizTalk and Microsoft NAV services.

·        Ability to collaborate with other developers using a Git-based team workflow to branch, merge and deploy changes as well as previous use of continuous integration and build tools such as Ansible, Docker, QuickBuild, or Jenkins, etc.

·        An understanding of modern software engineering practices, design patterns and object-oriented technologies.

·        Experience working in a DevOps model and with a variety of agile development methodologies like Scrum or Lean.

·        Strong written and verbal communication skills.

·        Strong organizational and analytical problem-solving skills.

·        Ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently.

·        Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.

·        Self-motivated with attention to detail.

·        Strong time management, organization and meeting management skills.

·        Ability to mentor and review the work of other software engineers.

·        Ability to work as an agile team with both internal and 3rd party resources (onshore / offshore)

Now that we’ve popped the question, please say “I do”.

Full Time Opportunity – A comprehensive benefits package is available.

• Rewarding Environment and Competitive Pay
• Generous Dream Maker Discount After First Pay Period
• Referral Incentive Program
• Dayforce Wallet – Get Paid Early!
• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• 401K Program
• Paid Vacation, Wellness Days & Holidays, including your Birthday off!
• Pet Benefits

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The starting rate of pay offered will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, training, and/or experience, and internal equity. This base pay range is specific to the state this role is posted in and may not be applicable to other locations. At David’s Bridal, it is rare for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range in their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the details and circumstances of each position and candidate.