Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Description

This senior management role in software engineering is based in Bentonville, AR, at 811 Excellence Dr. It covers designing, building, testing and releasing software for products and solutions, and it includes managing a team.

The role also involves supporting programs against their performance targets and keeping them on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Shape simple, modular and extensible designs that meet requirements, weighing trade-offs across the components of a product.
• Turn high-level designs into detailed ones, using mock screens, pseudocode and functional logic for each module.
• Understand how to design for disaster recovery.
• Build and refine minimum viable products to clarify requirements, test the design and surface risks, fixing early defects and changed customer needs.
• Write lean code for whole components or applications that meets business, technical and non-functional needs, including low maintenance, high availability and high scalability.
• Help choose languages (such as JavaScript, Python or C), development standards and tools (such as Monday.com, Linx or Embold).
• Learn the fundamentals of new coding languages and frameworks that will be useful for future work.
• Write scripts that automate repeated tasks in CI/CD, testing and other processes.
• Add telemetry features when needed.
• Make sure security policies are applied to components and applications during coding and configuration.
• Turn customer requirements into test objectives, then design and run test cases to find errors and defects in each component or module.
• Run the right types of testing with suitable tools for each testing need.
• Support stakeholders in meeting program performance metrics across projects, and take corrective action when a program falls off track.
• Recommend ways to improve the throughput, efficiency and effectiveness of programs.
• Track and review deployment schedules, and guide the team through each release.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, information technology, engineering or a related field, plus 5 years of progressively responsible experience after that degree in software engineering or a related area.
• Object-oriented coding in Python and PySpark.
• Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Hive and Kafka.
• Data pipeline and workflow tools: Azure Data Factory and Control-M.
• Cloud architecture on Azure Cloud and Google Cloud.
• DevOps tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins and Concord.
• Cloud security: firewall rules, role-based access management, virtual private networks, keyless access and key vault management.
• Cloud storage: Azure Data Lake, Hoodie, Delta Lake and Google Bucket Storage.
• Shell scripting.
• Data warehousing and ETL.
• Managing people and training junior team members.
• Any amount of experience with these skills is accepted.

Conditions

Pay ranges from $129,314.00 to $220,000.00 per year.

The role is based in Bentonville, AR.

Benefit eligibility depends on job classification and length of employment, and benefits may change or be subject to plan terms.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

The company maintains a drug-free workplace with a zero tolerance policy on illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Performance incentives paid annually or quarterly, in addition to base pay.
• Health plans cover medical, vision and dental care.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Education assistance, with 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement.
• Additional benefits beyond those listed.