Overview
H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $25 billion. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 110,000+ Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers.
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.
Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Technical Project Manager position, that means you have a...
HEART FOR PEOPLE... you can organize multiple engineers, negotiate solutions, and provide upward communication
HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you consistently demonstrate and uphold the standards of coding, infrastructure, and process
PASSION FOR RESULTS... you're capable of high-velocity contributions in multiple technical domains
What You'll Do
Deliver

• Facilitate the successful delivery of multiple, high-value initiatives of a Data Solutions development team using standards and technologies to implement rapid and timely data and reporting solutions to business product owners.
• Serve as the advocate for scrum team members and remove outside interference and distractions to team deliverables and product goals.
• Monitor and ensure sprint progress and maintain key sprint metrics related to deliverables, backlog, risk, and velocity of the engineering team.
• Support business product owners to develop a product roadmap, maintain product backlog, groom stories, establish priorities and timelines, plan sprint scope, and communicate results.
• Support and coach team members on identifying, documenting, and refining requirements; including development and execution of test cases and scripts.

Lead

• Mentor and coach onsite and remote team members on continuous improvement of Agile development and individual's contributions to improve quality and velocity of deliverables. The team should be focused, engaged, and enthusiastic. The team members should feel comfortable discussing problems and suggesting improvement ideas.
• Lead scrum related ceremonies including daily stand-ups, grooming, planning, retrospectives, prioritization, and business demos.
• Ensure testing and production releases align to enterprise standards and leverage CoE-related tools and processes.
• Act as agile SME to build scrum understanding and acceptance with business and technical teams and individuals. Uphold agile development principles and resist pressure to deviate from agile principles. Collaborate with and mentor other technical project managers at H-E-B on the same.

Communicate

• Communicate out sprint commitments, deliveries, challenges and concerns regarding H-E-B Data dataset and reporting development to various levels of leadership.
• Engage and communicate across technical and business teams to manage risks, dependencies, issues, release readiness, and quality standards.

Projects You'll Impact

• Technical Project Manager with an active Project Management and Software Engineering background to lead projects for our Data Solutions teams.
• Our Data Solution partners (employees) collaborate to design, construct, implement, and support technology solutions.
• You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and business partners to ensure launch requirements are understood, defined, tracked for critical initiatives, and delivered successfully.
• You will be responsible for helping form, plan and execute key data systems projects, ranging in size from quick hits to multi year manage changes
• You will assist in quarterly planning cycles and reporting progress to plan

Who You Are

• CS degree or equivalent
• 5+ years' experience working as a software project manager with experience leading large and complex cross-functional projects in a technology
• You are highly adaptable in a fast-paced hyper-growth environment; able to thrive within ambiguity.
• You have a system to manage change. You influence decisions and change management through collaboration, leadership, and a customer-focused approach.
• Significant agile/lean experience in organizations leveraging lean/agile methodologies and in-depth experience with specific agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Great interpersonal / communication skills (writing, speaking, listening), including navigating conflict and challenging situations while encouraging and mediating open and honest dialogue.
• Strong leadership capabilities, i.e. balancing the empowerment of the team to learn and grow from failure against avoiding failure when significant consequences exist.
• Ability to understand and articulate the team's perspective when facilitating priority discussions with the business Product Owner.
• Advances knowledge and usage of product and issues tracking software such as JIRA, Confluence, and Microsoft Office.
• Expert problem solving, time management, and risk management skills to lead agile Data Solutions development efforts.
• Understanding of business intelligence process, ETL, analytical reporting, data modeling, and data warehousing.
• Familiarity with any modern Data development platforms/tooling a plus: MicroStrategy, Informatica, TIBCO, Python, Java, Tableau, Spark, Hive, Impala, Kafka, Teradata, Oracle GG, SQL Server, SSRS, Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.
• Experience supporting retail or ecommerce operations a plus.

What Are The Perks?

• A robust Benefits plan with coverage starting Day One
• Dental, vision, life, and other insurance plans; flexible spending accounts; short term / long term disability coverage
• Partner Care Team, for any time you have healthcare or coverage questions
• Telehealth offers 24/7 access to board-certified doctors by phone
• Partner Guidance allows free counselor visits
• Funeral leave, jury duty, and military pay (subject to applicable law)
• Maternal/paternal leave for new parents, including adoptions
• 10% off H-E-B brand products in-store and online
• Eligibility to participate in 401(k)
• Opportunity to become a "Partner-Owner" after 12 month

Who We Are
We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise - Because People Matter
We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values and support them with thriving company-wide programs
We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day
Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. "Partner-owned" means our most important resources-People-drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company
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