Advance Auto Parts Hiring for Manager Software Development at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class:

Our customers are can-do people who like to build and professional shops that know what they need and demand accuracy and speed, just like us. Our priorities are all about their satisfaction, trust and loyalty. The Customer Facing Team is responsible for building solutions that drive the customer experience and, ultimately, enhance our bottom line as an organization. This team plays an integral, high visibility role in working across the company’s Store Operations, Customer Relationship and IT organizations.

SUMMARY

Reporting to the Director of Customer Facing Systems, the Manager of Store Systems Development will build and lead a talented development team focused on provided new or enhanced capabilities in Store Systems in alignment with the business product owners and leadership. You will be empowered to innovate and contribute to the definition of the standards, automation, and processes that will enable product teams to release features more rapidly.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES includes the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Work with business stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, and other IT teams to define the vision, roadmaps, strategy for Store Systems based on customer and stakeholder needs, company goals and strategy, market trends and technology advancement

Work closely with a nimble team of software engineers and enterprise architects to ensure the solutions meets our business needs using Agile methodologies in a fast-paced environment.

Identify appropriate resource needs; work with appropriate management to get resource commitments; make recommendations in sourcing strategy

Ensure contractual documentation is in place, utilizing appropriate procurement processes

Create and manage delivery schedule; track progress in completing project tasks. Ensure project schedules are as efficient as possible, utilizing critical path analysis where appropriate; and ensure project resources accurately charge time to appropriate tasks.

Manage scope – utilize appropriate tools and processes to manage/track requirements and conflicts; ensure appropriate change management processes/tools are used

Manage cost; provide level of effort and estimates, ensure financial forecast is created and maintained through the project

Track and manage risk and issues; appropriately escalate to management and project stakeholders

Prepare and present status reports on a regular basis to management and project stakeholders

Coordinate with Security Architecture and Engineering functions regarding the selection and implementation of applicable controls.

Plan for and work flexibly to deadlines

Maintain a leadership expertise on current technology, trends, and best practices.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Communication Skills

Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative business approaches, work with architects to come to an agreed approach, and lead development efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.

Ability to work collaboratively with or lead cross-functional project teams with minimal supervision.

Ability to act independently requiring minimal oversight, being highly productive, driving and promoting meaningful innovation in an agile environment

Ability to drive consensus within a team and influence outcomes in significant technical decision-making.

Ability to understand high level technical designs and communicate approaches to business partners.

Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills to work with different business groups as well as IT partners (enterprise architects, vendors, etc.)

Be able to work with teams with varying levels of technical backgrounds and experiences.

Experience presenting to and influencing across an organization.

Time Management

Ability to effectively plan, organize and prioritize multiple streams of activity. Adapt well to changes.

Ability to meet commitments, handle changing priorities and to use good judgment when working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a high-level of accuracy and efficiency.

Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, ability to build and maintain relationships on an enterprise scale, to influence without direct authority

Analytical Skills

Demonstrated critical thinking and negotiation skills.

Extreme attention to detail and organization in all aspects of the project development.

Open-minded, willing to consider multiple options, sources, perspectives, and possible solutions. Careful assessment of the importance, relevance, and validity of all options.

Inquisitive. Ask probing questions and research as a basis for making design decisions and judging quality; understand the true reason behind the request rather than just accepting an initial thought or proposed solution.

Ability to negotiate and prioritize requests from multiple stakeholders to maximize the impact and value for engineering efforts

Ability to make decisions quickly and independently; use of data driven processes for decision making.

Proactive and willing to contribute ideas. Not afraid to ask questions.

Technical Skills:
5+ years of a development background in application development and/or technical project management, especially in retail industry and web technology area (strongly preferred).

Strong familiarity with user experience, web technology and Java/J2EE application stacks.

Functional knowledge of Java, Java Script, Jenkins, and Maven

Strong experience working in an Agile/SCRUM environment; Certified Scrum Master Certification is preferred.

Working knowledge of ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence and Microsoft Office products.

Basic understanding of Organizational Change Management principals and ability to make recommendations for appropriate adoption of IT solutions.

Understanding of basic project accounting principles.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline; or 5-7 years of practical experience managing simultaneous projects driving successful delivery according to scope, schedule and budget; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Total of 10+ years in Application Development or Infrastructure Engineering managing developers with at least 5 years in a supervisory role or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Experience in building and leading teams (developers, business analysts, quality assurance testers, project manager).

Sound knowledge of the principles of product management.

Strong analytical & strategic planning skills; ability to set clear objectives and priorities to drive execution.

Experience in large scale applications – either public facing web applications or applications with large numbers of concurrent users.

Experience with either on-line or in-store retail selling applications

Experience with on premises as well as AWS cloud development

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Establish delivery goals and KPIs to measure against them.

Setting quarterly and annual goals for performance and deadlines in ways that comply with department goals and vision.

Organize workflow and ensuring that employees understand their duties or delegated tasks.

Monitor employee productivity and providing constructive feedback and coaching.

Manage overall team and individuals’ skillsets, performance and throughput through training plans, career development, and performance management.

Ability to use collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.

Other duties or tasks as assigned by management