Responsibilities
H-E-B Digital is seeking new team members (Partners)! Since our inception, we've been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, how they make food decisions, and how they ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital, and we're hiring across the stack: front-end web and mobile, full-stack, and backend engineering. We're using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. Our digital solutions are growing in popularity and adoption--like Curbside and Home Delivery--so you'll get the opportunity to define the user experience for millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of Partners. If you're someone who enjoys taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team.
As a Manager of Data Solutions, Platform Engineering you'll raise up your team (team of 6-8 engineers) , helping develop individual careers and achieving goals, spotting and addressing common team problems, and coaching and mentoring those identified for potential company leadership. You'll work closely with stakeholders from product and design, and other engineering leaders, to provide high-quality, repeatable technology delivery for the digital engineering organization. You'll provide leadership across all aspects of development to maintain a high bar for technology, people, and process.
Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Manager of Data Engineering job, that means you have a...
HEART FOR PEOPLE... you have a passion for mentorship and guidance, and love for the direct person-to-person interactions that create strong bonds between teams
HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software
PASSION FOR RESULTS... the ability to guide the discussion, remove roadblocks, and provide guardrails for your team as they identify challenges and propose solutions
What You'll Do:
- Directly supervise individual contributors
- Coach / mentor others in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable others to succeed; empower team members to be autonomous, fast, and effective
- Manage all HR responsibilities for your team, including pay planning, promotions, expenses, and leave
- Understand / foster the value of radical candor when having 1:1 conversations
- Lead large initiatives within the team, including technical design / delivery of complex features across multiple systems as H-E-B improves the customer and Partner user experiences
- Help grow Digital Engineering by driving execution of organization-wide activities
- Develop technical roadmaps and lead engineers across one or more squads to deliver initiatives; apply your understanding of fundamentals of the business to ensure technical roadmap aligns with business opportunities
- Recommend improvements to overall application system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance
- Identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems; effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes
- Recommend changes to processes and tools at the group / dept level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices
- Diagnose / troubleshoot extremely complex issues
- Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards
- Jump down to IC-level duties, when needed, to provide guidance on code reviews or pull requests
Who You Are:
- You have a related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
- You have 4+ years as an experienced Data Engineer focused on platform engineering, and have successful leadership (of small teams of 4 - 8) experience
- You have expert knowledge of AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP
- Experience in the DevOps and Engineering Support Space
- Strong experience with Terraform (preferred)
- Knowledge of the Systems Administration space
- You have deep knowledge of multiple technologies, including technology used at H-E-B
- You have an expert understanding of development methodologies and processes
- You understand cross-tech stacks and scalability and reliability implications
- You have technical competence equivalent to expectations of a Senior Engineer
- You have skills in multiple languages, technologies, and frameworks and can quickly on-board to projects in minimal time
- You're capable of learning new technologies, processes, or business quickly and effectively
- You approach problem-solving holistically and consider solutions through a combination of technology and processes
- You can coordinate work for a group of engineers on major initiatives
What We Do
We create digital products for the households that shop at H-E-B, the 120,000+ Partners who serve those households alongside us, the farmers that grow our food to the business functions that develop, source, package and sell that food.
Why Work With Us
H-E-B Digital sits in a truly unique space in the market - we’re a startup within a century-old, cash-positive, privately-held company - the 12th largest privately-held company in the country. We’re a fully-funded and fully-integrated digital part of an omni-channel business. Our mission is to make the lives of everyday people better!
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