Senior Lead Software Engineer, Entity Technology Solutions - Atlanta, United States - Chick-fil-A Supply LLC

Description

Overview:

This role is responsible for leading the Analytics DevOps team for the supply chain vertical business lines. The team implements and runs the platform used to extract, load, and transform data from all critical systems within Chick-fil-A Supply, Bay Center Foods, and upstream pilots. The data is loaded into a cloud-based data warehouse so critical KPIs and metrics can be automatically visualized and reported to the business.

This leadership role is responsible for multiple functional areas. This includes:

• Build and maintain the Airflow workflow engine use for ETL/ELT
• Implement and maintain the VBL Data Warehouse
• Partner with business users creating dashboards and model data within the data warehouse to reduce calculation complexity, improve performance, and improve reliability
• Curate and share entity financial data with the financial shared services data warehouse.

This highly productive team delivers releases in an agile fashion nearly every week to continuously improve existing functionality and delivery new data sets and data models. This is a DevOps team so the team provides 24/7 on call operational support for all developed solutions.

About Chick-fil-A Supply and Bay Center Foods

As wholly owned subsidiaries of Chick-fil-A, Inc., Chick-fil-A Supply and Bay Center Foods are food production and distribution services networks focused entirely on serving the unique needs and growing volume of Chick-fil-A restaurants.

The Chick-fil-A Supply and Bay Center Foods service networks are comprised of three components:

• Distribution Center State-of-the-art warehouses that house supply for Chick-fil-A restaurants
• Production Distribution Center Offsite facilities that prepare select ingredients and menu items for Chick-fil-A restaurants
• Transportation Growing fleet of delivery vehicles that supply Chick-fil-A restaurants

Responsibilities:

• Own solution architecture decisions for the teams products
• Lead delivery and operations of the teams products, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your teams engineers. We desire our lead engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending about half of their time on leading others and half contributing engineering work themselves
• Lead, mentor, and assess other staff engineers, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve knotty problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories - Interview, select, onboard, and oversee contract engineers
• Assist in the design and delivery of products outside of your team, develop tools and processes for use outside of your team, and/or mentor other engineers or especially lead engineers outside of your team
• Guide partner-led engineering workstreams, contributing to solution design and code reviews
• Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards - Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches
• Driver Operational and Engineering excellence for the DevOps team

Gain deep understanding of business processes across Supply Chain so the team can maximize impact and operate at a high level.
Note Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared?amongst the team members to cover?weekends and weeknights.? The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.?

Minimum Qualifications:

• Own solution architecture decisions for the teams products
• Lead delivery and operations of the teams products, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your teams engineers. We desire our lead engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending about half of their time on leading others and half contributing engineering work themselves
• Lead, mentor, and assess other staff engineers, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve knotty problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories - Interview, select, onboard, and oversee contract engineers
• Assist in the design and delivery of products outside of your team, develop tools and processes for use outside of your team, and/or mentor other engineers or especially lead engineers outside of your team
• Guide partner-led engineering workstreams, contributing to solution design and code reviews
• Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards - Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches
• Driver Operational and Engineering excellence for the DevOps teamGain deep understanding of business processes across Supply Chain so the team can maximize impact and operate at a high level.

Note Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared?amongst the team members to cover?weekends and weeknights.? The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.?

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing complex software solutions
• Experience mentoring and leading a team, including good interpersonal and team collaboration skills
• Experience leading an agile development team, including sprints, pointing, and daily standups
• Broad and deep programming experience in Java, JavaScript, Python and/or comparable languages
• Experience with SQL and data modeling
• Experience running, scaling, optimizing, and securing a cloud-based data warehouse
• Experience with Git for source control and setting up automated CI/CD processes and technologies
• Experience implementing application security, software design patterns, and the SDLC
• Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment
• Partner closely with technical product owners to understand, estimated, and deliver on business requirements

Minimum Years of Experience:
7

Travel Requirements:
10%

Required Level of Education:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Level of Education:
Masters Degree

Major/Concentration:
COMPUTER ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE, OR RELATED TECHNICAL FIELD.