Manager IT - Full-time / Part-time

## Description **Position Summary:** Capitalizing on its domestic ecommerce success and worldwide brand recognition, Toys "R" Us is building a global ecommerce IT organization that will help drive expansion of our online selling presence into international markets. As a key contributor within the team responsible for this effort, the Manager, IT Global eCommerce will join the online globalization efforts for Toys "R" Us at its beginning stages. The IT Manager - Oracle ATGTechnical Architect will not only lead a team through implementation of the global IT platform, but must be comfortable and fully capable of managing and working with internal and external ecommerce partners. The person in this role will be a key advisor and strategic leader in directing all aspects of development, improvement initiatives and innovation projects for large-scale global web retailer. Note: This is not a web site development role.** **_Responsibilities:_** * Identify, develop, and drive strategic improvement initiatives involving functionality improvements, innovation solutions, and development and implementation methodologies * Review design and architecture documentation, inspect implemented systems, and develop improvement priorities, plans and strategies * Serve as trusted advisor to management and client * Lead strategic planning to implement transformation of traditional "waterfall" development processes into Agile methodology driven processes * Work with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy and architectural direction for Oracle ATG-based eCommerce platform * Analyze strategic objectives, current application development roadmap and provide expert technical leadership to optimize and align IT enhancement initiatives with organization's overall strategy * Optimize all relevant aspects of Oracle ATG implementation for system functionality and integration with multiple external systems, middleware interfaces, etc. * Identify, develop, and drive applicable engineering best practices, including use of design patterns, code reviews and automated unit testing * Collaborate and communicate with different teams and triage technical issues across teams * Hire, train and develop a team of technical analysts. * Participate in scope definition and estimation of time and costs associated with technology related business opportunities to include any Toys "R" Us internal and partner applications and infrastructure. * Manage and guide direction of development teams to build, maintain and support a web store platform that will be utilized by all worldwide Toys "R" Us markets. * Develop and maintain strong relationships with vendors integrated with and indirectly sharing data through our web store development partner, as well as those 3rd party vendors directly integrating with Toys "R" Us applications and infrastructure as they relate to ecommerce processes. * Coordinate, manage and be held accountable for all work assigned to our website development partner and any other 3rd party vendor partner. * Work closely with website development partner technology team to understand and manage their project and work plans relative to addressing Toys "R" Us business requirements. * Create and own functional and design specifications for new and/or enhanced system development for interfaces owned by Toys "R" Us. * Assess, delegate, manage and review activities and deliverables of off-shore resources. * Champion SDLC and Toys "R" Us Project Management Framework while working with business partners on ecommerce projects. * Develop website start-up technical documentation and checklists. * Support and champion technological and business ideas and changes to the global platform. * Review emerging technological trends and facilitate the potential adoption of those trends to create competitive opportunities. * Continually review IT direction related to partner work, resource allocation, hardware selection, networks, application selection, application integration and tool sets. * Hold regular sessions with key stakeholders within the business to understand long and short term technology needs and opportunities. * Review, assess and provide guidance to business partners to ensure requirements for new and/or enhanced system requests have been properly documented to be handed off to either internal IT team members, website implementation partner or other 3rd party vendors. ## Qualifications **_Qualifications:_** * Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information or Technology Systems, Engineering or related fields; equivalent work experience will be considered. * Must have a minimum of 3 years experience managing technical resources to include internal and vendor partners. * Must have a minimum of 3 years Project Management experience. * 3+ years of experience with Oracle ATG retail web implementation * 3+ years of experience with industry standard integration technologies (e.g. WebSphere) * Working knowledge of web technologies (AJAX, JS, .NET, Java, XML, Flash, HTML, HTML5, CSS), web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components. * Strong understanding of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC), web platform knowledge a plus. * Must have experience planning and implementing systems integration and development projects. * Preferred previous experience working directly with or in a consultative role with an ecommerce organization. * Preferred previous experience working in or with international deployments. * Should be highly collaborative and comfortable with both high-level planning and tactical execution. * Must be a relationship builder capable of influencing and collaborating in a partner intensive environment. * Excellent communication and leadership skills *Job Function:* Information Technology *Primary Location:* USA-NJ-Wayne *Schedule:* Full-time *Organization:* Headquarters *Job Type:* Standard *Education Level:* Bachelor's Degree *Travel:* No *Work Locations:* Headquarters One Geoffrey Way Wayne 07470-2030 *Brand:* Toys 'R' US *Req ID:* 48421