Position Purpose:
This Sr. Principal Engineer would focus on the system architecture of our marketing technology space to drive incremental revenue and increased customer engagement through personalization, and deliver new capabilities that enable THD to increase the number of personalized touch points and drive increased consistency in the personalized customer experience across channels. The ideal candidate has experience in the following spaces: customer identity, audience building, audience syndication, content personalization, targeting, measurement and reporting. Due to the cross-organization nature of this initiative, a strong collaborative mindset is ideal, as well as the ability to balance stakeholders and influence them.
Key Responsibilities:
- 50% Delivery and Execution – Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing; Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio; Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption; Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
- 10% People – Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex challenges; Presents at and attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies and concepts; Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports; Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback; Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent
- 15% Strategy and Planning – Works with a Distinguished Engineer to define technology solutions (open source or vendor) teams should be exploring and/or leveraging; Works across local teams to unify strategy and alignment; Identifies and removes potential roadblocks & bottlenecks across large cross-functional projects and initiatives; Participates in and influences development of technology roadmaps within a given portfolio; Drives thought leadership and innovation within a given portfolio
- 25% Support and Enablement – Point of escalation for high-priority issues and outages as they arise; Fields questions from project, product, and support teams; Helps solve technology disputes across local teams; Works with vendors to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products; Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technology with local teams
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This position reports to various individuals
- This position has 4-6 direct reports
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT
- Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry
- Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
- 7 years of relevant work experience
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent in a field of study related to the job
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 15% of the time
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7-9 years of relevant work experience
- Expertise in system architecture for marketing technology
- One of the fields of expertise should include a programming language
- Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
- Mastery in assigned domains
- Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with specific domains
- 5 years previous leadership experience
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
- No additional education
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 7
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
- None
Preferred Leadership Experience:
- None
Certifications:
- None
Competencies:
- Courage
- Drives Vision and Purpose
- Global Perspective
- Nimble Learning
- Self-Development
- Attracts Top Talent
- Builds Effective Teams
- Collaborates
- Cultivates Innovation
- Drives Engagement
- Manages Complexity
- Situational Adaptability
- Communicates Effectively
- Develops Talent
- Drives Results
The application window is anticipated to be closed on June 27th , 2024
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