Five Below's Engineering team is responsible for the architecture, design, development, and operations of all systems and applications supporting the company's retail footprint. This includes systems for merchandise planning, inventory management, finance, stores, supply chain, logistics, digital, data/analytics, and AI, as well as enterprise architecture. The systems and applications are a combination of enterprise solutions and custom software designed to create a seamless customer experience, driven by data assets, infrastructure, and cloud technology.
Requirements
- 7+ years’ experience in Information Technology with experience related to application development, IT operations management, cloud infrastructure management, project/program management, or technology consulting
- 7+ years experience in implementing store technology solutions (POS, Store Inventory, WFM, Omni Channel: BOPIS/SFS, Payment Systems), providing a secure, cohesive, consistent personalized customer experience across all physical & digital customer touchpoints
- Expertise in open-source software development languages & frameworks such as Java, Spring, NO-SQL DB’s, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Cloud computing
- Experience in Governance, Risk and Compliance management, specifically around implementing automated controls, security monitoring, enabling audit trails, securing data and complying to company’s SOX and audit policies
- Expertise in building and deploying secure applications in a multi-cloud footprint (AWS, Azure, GCP or Oracle cloud)
- Expertise driving efficiencies across the application footprint through automation leveraging CI/CD and DevSecOps (shift-left) methodologies
- Highest level of personal integrity, and the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and exude the appropriate level of judgment and maturity
Responsibilities
- Contributes to solution architectures across specific domains, evaluating alternatives based on cost, performance, and scalability, while documenting key decisions.
- Crafts specifications for both cloud and on-premises components and ensures that solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, including security, while supporting project and change initiatives with technical plans.
- Ensures team follows the corporate information security policies, standards, and guidelines, ensuring architectural principles are applied during design to reduce risk and driving their adoption and adherence.
- Develop code, scripts, and designs per business requirements when needed.
- Conduct and lead design, code and configuration reviews.
- Design complex software applications, components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology.
- Oversee/coordinate supporting technical work required with other Five Below IT teams, including infrastructure (e.g., network, DevOps) and upstream and downstream system owners (warehouse management systems, order management systems, InfoSec, etc.).
Other
- Takes full ownership of complex projects, ensuring definition, documentation, and the use of appropriate project management tools and processes.
- Oversees project resources, financials, and effectively manages the expectations of key stakeholders.
- Manage department budgets, invoices and allocations, inclusive of alignment to appropriate business initiative/capability
- Identifies and addresses stakeholder communication needs, translating engagement strategies into actionable deliverables.
- Serves as a primary contact for stakeholders, facilitating open discussions, promoting understanding, and disseminating key technical and business information.
