Director, Digital Services Engineering

The Director of Digital Services Engineering will be required to keep abreast of emerging technology trends and applications in the Digital industry inclusive of building services, microservices, data storage methodologies, data relationship and containerization to determine recommendations for Dollar General.

• Accountable for Digital services capabilities including sizings, providing solution options (build or buy), solution design, and implementation along with necessary expert consulting time and application configuration
• Owns digital deliverables and reporting on them as well as collaboration without technology domains for completeness of solutions
• Evaluate, improve, and implement processes across teams or functional area to advance engineering
• Determine best repair, and ensure appropriate maintenance, and documentation
• Engineering of application architecture reviews and advisory board space with technology inclusive of data science and Dev Sec Ops  for Digital solutions
• Manage annual capital and expense budget and monthly reporting
• Manage vendor relationships by influencing and negotiating work arrangements that maintain cost/performance balance

• Must have experience in Development and Data Technologies across microservices, net services, API platforms, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and one cloud provider.
• Must have experience in vendor product integration via API
• Must have experience in eCommerce & loyalty technologies like search, cart, orders, coupons, cashback and product catalog
• Must have Experience in data integration with RDBMS, Document DB, and caching DB
• Must have Experience in integrating services with vendor partners & CPGs
• Direct management of technical staff as well as manager level staff
• Demonstrated in-depth expertise in the design, development, implementation, diagnosis, or repair of technology solutions.
• Experience with hardware, software, models, methods, and other technology-based intellectual property
• Provided full lifecycle cost estimates, domain specific support services
• Excellent technology skills and the ability to lead multiple projects of increasing complexity from inception through completion
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively write
• Ability to motivate, reward, and provide constructive criticism and corrective action
• Ability to teach, mentor and enhance skills of staff from entry level through leadership
• Ability to set goals, evaluate and measure performance, and provide informal/formal feedback on performance
• Ability to delegate and achieve desired results from direct reports and provide accountability at an individual, team, and departmental level.
• Ability to build customer applications for web, mobile and in-stores
• Ability to conduct core code reviews to ensure follow principles of frameworks such as design patterns, azure marketplace (or equivalent), libraries in logging, and ensure secure code and detailed performance tuning

• Total of 8 or more years of IT related experience required, with a software development or related technical background
• Prior experience in leading groups of 20 or more people, with at least 8 direct reports
• 8+ years of customer mobile applications
• 7+ years of working with and managing offshore resources
• 5+ years of ecommerce & customer facing technologies
• 5+ years of objected oriented programming for software
• 5+ years in cloud development
• 5+ years of pipelines for devsecops
• 3+ years of DBMS, and leading micro-services
• 1+ years in Consumer Privacy