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Technical Manager, Digital Commerce

Five Below

Philadelphia, PA | Posted: 4 years ago

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Position:  Technical Manager, Digital Commerce

Department: Information Technology 


Department Overivew: The Engineering team, operating in a Devops model and organized by product group, is responsible for the design, configuration (package)/development (custom and integration) and operations of all systems and applications supporting FiveBelows Retail footprint. The systems/apps are a combination of enterprise package solutions and custom software. Engineering Product groups at FiveBelow are aligned to business functions. Accordingly we have Merchandising and Inventory Management, Stores and Digital, Logistics, Data Platform (data-lake, datalabs) and Tools. We are looking for highly motivated Technical Managers to lead each of these product groups. The job description outlined below is for a Technical Manager Digital Commerce. We are in the process of building Five Belows Next Generation digital technology platform, focusing on e-commerce, mobile applications, loyalty programs and marketing technology. The Technical-manager will report to the VP of Engineering and will have full responsibility for the technical design, build and operations of the technical solution footprint, supporting E-commerce, Mobile and Digital Marketing solutions

Position Summary:

  •  Provide oversight to on/offshore agile engineering teams building/configuring and operating FiveBelows Digital Marketing and E-commerce initiatives. This includes overall responsibility for the identification, assessment, prioritization and planning activities for implementing software products capabilities.  
  • We are looking for an energetic hands-on technical leader, with full-stack engineering background, who has implemented both enterprise package and custom software, worked in an agile delivery model and can build and manage global teams comprised of employees, vendors and on/off-shore partners.  

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead Agile inceptions, document technical work in technical stories, and estimate (using agile points/story sizing techniques) the work effort required to complete those stories.
  • Act as Scrum Master, leading all agile rituals including daily standups, iteration planning, story huddles, retrospectives and creation of burn up charts.
  • Provide development leadership based on in-depth product and technical knowledge with some hands on development
  • Oversee/coordinate supporting technical work required with other Five Below IT teams, including infrastructure (e.g. for servers, network) and upstream and downstream system owners (e.g. warehouse management systems, order management systems, ERP systems etc)
  • Oversee the work of developers, architects, and QAs to ensure that agile stories being played support the release plan defined by the product owner and are delivered with high quality.
  • Work with Five Below program managers to ensure technical execution risks & issues are captured and mitigated.
  • Lead team in development of QA/testing strategy approach (unit, system, functional, integration, performance)

Knowledge & Experience:

  • 7-10 years of full lifecycle technology implementation and support (DevOps) experience of large, complex, global IT package and custom applications for Retailers
  • 5+ years implementing complex digital commerce and marketing solutions across Site, SEO, SEM, Media, Mobile apps and email marketing
  • Hands on experience delivering customer facing solutions using client-side technologies, server-side programming and APIs; building integration frameworks (ERPs, payment gateways, 3PL etc)
  • In depth knowledge of web-application security vulnerabilities, PCI compliance concepts
  • Experience with tag management solutions such as google tag manager, Signal or Tealium is desirable
  •  Depth of experience using Google Analytics, New Relic
  • Solid Experience in full-stack design, build of software-products, including front-end (UX-CSS, HTML5, angular.js, React etc), App-logic layer (Python, node.js, PHP, express JS etc), Data-services (Python, node.js, PHP, express JS etc), Databases (MySQL, Mongo, Oracle, SQLServer, Hadoop etc), DevOps (CI/CD Jenkins, GIT/bitbucket, MML etc) and Mobile app development; Jmeter, Junit/PHUnit, Selenium
  • Ability to evaluate and productionalize solutions from vendors and emerging solutions

Five Below is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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