Manager - Digital Engineering

Costco Wholesale; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 137,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Digital Engineering Manager in Dallas, TX to guide a dynamic team through a period of transformation. This role involves oversight of team performance, driving strategic vision, and fostering a positive culture. Candidates should have strong leadership abilities, agile experience, and a passion for innovation in creating top-notch digital solutions.

Benefits

Health and wellness benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Short-term and long-term disability insurance

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience managing an agile development team.
• Experience with large-scale applications in a cloud environment.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.

Responsibilities

• Lead a product and integration team for digital environment transformation.
• Manage team performance and deliverables while developing strategic vision.
• Foster a culture of engagement, trust, and open communication.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Team-building

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

As a member of the IT Management Team, you are responsible for managing, developing, and leading a team of employees. Your role includes leading the specific functional responsibilities of your team, which involves overseeing team performance and deliverables. However, your role as a leader within our organization requires more than the management of resources and day-to-day operations. As a steward of the company, you are charged with the development and execution of your team’s strategic vision and plan and ensuring that your team’s actions align with the larger goals of the company and the IT Division.

The Digital Engineering Manager leads a product and integration team to develop and integrate product(s) within the digital environment, an environment that is currently undergoing a transformational journey. The individual in this role should have a technical background, be knowledgeable in programming languages and software development methodologies, as well as, have great business partnering skills. The Digital Engineering Manager will lead and motivate a team of engineers to meet product goals, create a positive work environment, and encourage teamwork and collaboration.

As the primary conduit between your employees and upper leadership, your role in communicating and modeling the values and guiding principles of our company culture is of vital importance. All members of IT Management should strive to consciously and consistently foster a culture of engagement, trust, and “open door” communication.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• INTEGRITY: When achieving benchmarks and goals, use methods/strategies that are consistent with the Code of Ethics and the Standard of Ethics for Managers and Supervisors. Always leads by example. Appropriately handles employee concerns and follows through to resolution.
• MEMBER SERVICE: Provides and ensures staff provides an exceptional member experience.
• ADMINISTRATION: Ensures proper department coverage (writing schedule and break aids if needed). Understands department budget, able to research and explain budget variances.
• MANAGING PERFORMANCE: Coaches and mentors’ employees to provide support and guidance. Has regular open and honest conversations with employees to discuss work performance and career development. Identifies learning opportunities to strengthen employee knowledge, skill and ability.
• COMMUNICATION: Regularly shares information with employees via meetings and one-on-one conversations. Successfully navigates difficult conversations with employees, members, and suppliers. Listens, expresses empathy and adapts to get points across. Addresses issues immediately to ensure a timely resolution and to avoid escalating the situation. Consistently demonstrates business knowledge during interactions with senior management.
• SELF-MANAGEMENT: Demonstrates sound judgment, taking a partner when necessary. Ability to maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation or in intense, hectic situations.
• INCLUSION: Encourages different approaches and ideas to work and to accomplish goals. Seeks employee input. Takes the time to get to know or reach out to candidates who show potential that may not come forward on their own.
• COMPLIANCE AND SAFETY: Takes measures to ensure employee and member information is kept confidential and adheres to IS security policy.
• Provides leadership to the team and facilitates resolution of production system outages.
• Ensures non-production systems are up and running and available for projects.
• Manages the team work assignments and ensures completion.
• This is a full-time management/leadership position (45+ hours per week).
  
  

Required

• At least 5 years’ experience managing a medium to large agile development team.
• Experience with large-scale applications, preferably web based, in a cloud environment.
• Experience in working with complex modern SaaS platforms and applications.
• Experience leading a group of software engineers in a DevOps culture.
• Advocate for leveraging and evolving a continuous delivery/integration pipeline and QA Automation to drive agility.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Strong leadership and team-building skills.
• Innovative, creative, and with a passion for excellence.
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to work with people at all management levels.
• Detail oriented and strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills, with experience building strategic and tactical plans.
• Ability to analyze a situation for potential future problems.
• Ability to work under pressure and in a crisis situation.
• Extremely responsive, with a strong sense of urgency.
• Able to support off hours work as required including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities.
• HIPAA Training and Supervisors Orientation (within 30 days of hire); Leadership Development 101 (within one year); Costco Pay Policies (within 90 days of promotion).
  
  

Recommended

• Experience managing a Digital team.
• Application development experience.
• Experience with major development languages, such as Java or C#.
• Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.
  
  

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume
  
  

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Pay Range: $137,000 - $200,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail]

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas .

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Retail

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