Senior Manager - DevOps Engineer, Data Labs

Job Title: Senior Manager - DevOps Engineer, Data Labs

Primary Purpose: The hire will be responsible for managing the team's DevOps pipeline to support the development and deployment of data and analytics products used across Tapestry's stable of brands. The ideal candidate has experience designing and implementing automated build and deployment pipelines using cloud technologies. This position will have the opportunity to build out the DevOps team as well as influence the set of tools and processes used across the entire Data Labs organization. The role will work closely with our Data Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams to drive efficiency and streamline processes.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Data Labs to...

- Architect, build, and maintain automated build and release pipelines to be used by the Data Labs engineering and data science teams.
- Act as the subject matter expert in CI/CD processes and tools and drive the adoption of best practices for deployment and testing processes across the Data Labs group.
- Ensure our processes are optimized to deliver secure, reliable, and accurate solutions.
- Improve scalability of our solutions through monitoring of both deployed services and key infrastructure components.
- Proactively identify new technologies and tools to ensure Data Labs remains at the forefront of technology.
- Manage and build the DevOps capability within the Data Labs organization.

The accomplished individual will possess...

- College degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
- Experience working with cloud deployment tools and infrastructure as code technologies (Terraform, Jenkins, etc.)
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Experience designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines using best of breed technologies.
- Experience developing solutions leveraging serverless technologies including Containers and Kubernetes.

An outstanding professional will have...
- 5-7 years of experience in the DevOps field
- College degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
- Proven experience building and managing a DevOps team.
- A proven track record of designing reliable and scalable processes and driving their adoption throughout a development organization.
- Expertise using DevOps tools in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- A strong sense of curiosity and interest in Data Science and how it can be leveraged to drive performance in the Retail industry.

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
- Managerial Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
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