Director of Software Engineering Practices

Location

Bangalore | India

Job description

Position Responsibilities Include:

• Establish, build, and grow the software engineering discipline, and bring together all software engineers in the BBY India hub to share and learn from each other.
• Establish consistency in how work gets done.
  • Partner with the Best Buy US Software Engineering CoP to understand, define, promote, and evangelize modern engineering practices and ways of working.
  • Align to current and emerging practices, standards, and programs (for example: Engineering Acceleration, DAT Technology Strategy, Modernization, Stakeholder management, job families)
  • Develop a culture of reuse and community contributions for libraries, modules, and components.
  • Work with BBY India engineering managers to build and grow a positive engineering culture.
• Enable hiring at a larger scale, with a consistent view of the skills needed by teams in the hub.
  • Use consistent job family descriptions when assessing talent, for open positions and when assessing employee performance.
  • Help with onboarding of individuals to a discipline. Enable new employees to create impact sooner.
  • Improve retention by making Best Buy a premier employer for software engineers.
• Provide senior onsite leadership, in partnership with Product Management and Experience Design (XD) leads, and the hub leader.
  • Enable connection and communication across hub teams, and to their US team partners.
  • Measure the pulse of the hub teams, helping coach and resolve intra-team and cross-team issues.
• Partner with the India and US CoPs across all disciplines (e.g., Software Engineering, Product Management, and Experience Design).
• Advocate for BBY India teams to make sure they have a "seat at the table" with US teams.
• Establish relationships with leaders in India and the US to understand the value that the different product teams have in meeting company objectives, and how the software engineering teams contribute to those objectives.
• Coach and develop managers, senior managers, and associate directors on their team who are themselves responsible for their teams and outcomes.
• Conduct 1:1s with direct reports, and skip-level discussions for team members to assess team health, promote cohesion and camaraderie, and identify and solve issues across the organization.
• Be recognized as a technical leader to help unblock teams facing problems.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in IT, Computer Science, business, or related field
• 11+ years of experience designing and delivering software, using modern engineering tools and practices including test-driven development, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps practices
• 6+ years of experience building and leading engineering teams
• 1 year of managing managers
• Direct leadership involvement in transforming engineering ways of working and modernizing legacy applications
• Ability to effectively communicate to stakeholders and larger audiences across all levels of the company. Excellent written, oral, and visual communication skills
• Proactive and dynamic - able to identify and resolve issues quickly
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities in parallel
• Capable of influencing a wide range of stakeholders, at all levels of the company
• Experience working in an omni-channel retail environment

About Best Buy:

BBY India is a service provider to Best Buy and as part of the team that will work on Best Buy projects and initiatives, youll help us fulfill Best Buys purpose to enrich lives through technology. You will bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life in Best Buy stores, online and in Best Buy customers homes.

Best Buys culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees and other team members who make it all possible. Best Buy is committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, Best Buy aims to provide a place where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

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