Sr. Director, Engineering - MP&A and Finance

At Five Below our growth is a result of the people who embrace our purpose: We know life is way better when you are free to Let Go & Have Fun in an amazing experience, filled with unlimited possibilities, priced so low, you can always say yes to the newest, coolest stuff! Just ask any of our over 17,000 associates who work at Five Below and they'll tell you there's no other place like it. It all starts with our purpose and then, The Five Below Way, which is our values and behaviors that each and every associate believes in.

It's all about culture at Five Below, making this a place that can inspire you as much as you inspire us with big ideas, super energy, passion, and the ability to make the workplace a WOWplace!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with the MP&A and Finance business function leaders and product managers to establish technology strategy in line with the business vision to prioritize technology initiatives, budgets and operating plans
• Partner with Engineering leaders in providing technology vision and direction for MP&A and Finance applications that support our customers
• Drive the delivery and operations of mission-critical MP&A and Finance that drive our $10B+ retail business
• 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
• Leads the creation of stakeholder management strategies, building and overseeing long-term relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Serves as the primary contact for stakeholders, facilitating engagements, negotiations, and communications, ensuring mutual understanding and continuous improvement in relations.
• Establishes organizational policies and standards for effective vendor management, fostering positive relationships and ensuring mutual benefits across the supply chain.
• Oversees benchmarking resources, evaluates vendor performance, and assures the quality of services delivered by vendors.
• 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.
• Shapes organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools, steering their introduction to align with business needs.
• Champions the enhancement of organizational capabilities for consistent adoption of methods and tools, ensuring steadfast adherence to established policies and standards.
• 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.
• Lead software construction activities, strategically planning and driving execution.
• Select and adapt the most suitable software development methods, tools, and techniques, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Implement and leverage best practices (e.g., code reviews, pipeline automation, code sharing) and operational key performance indicators (defects per user story, velocity, estimates to actuals) to ensure timely delivery of high-quality technology deliverables
• Participate in Agile rituals –daily standups, iteration planning, story huddles, retrospectives, creation of burn up chart's inceptions, document technical work in technical stories using JIRA board, and estimate (using agile points/story sizing techniques) the work effort required to complete those stories.
• Leads the specification and design of intricate software applications, utilizing and tailoring advanced design methods, and conducts thorough impact analyses to guide informed decisions.
• Ensures designs meet organizational standards, balancing functional, quality, and security needs, while actively shaping organizational software design policies and architecture standards.
• Develops road maps to communicate future development activity.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to on shore and offshore team members
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis and stay ahead of emerging trends
• Leads the development and enhancement of organizational systems integration capabilities, driving automation and continuous integration, ensuring adherence to standards, and contributing to organizational policies and guidelines while providing expert guidance on all facets of systems integration.
• Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of test planning and execution. Adopts and adapts appropriate testing methods, automated tools and techniques to solve problems in tools and testing approaches.
• Plans and drives development projects which support the organization's objectives and plans
• Reviews and refines system designs, leveraging and adapting the best methods and tools, while shaping organizational policies and standards for system design and architecture component selection.
• Leads the design and refinement of complex software configurations for deployment, collaborates on method and tool selection, ensures adherence to standards for quality outcomes, and actively engages in both self-review and peer-review processes.
• Collaborate closely with the operations team to conduct root cause analysis on intricate challenges, ensuring a thorough understanding and resolution.
• Defines the release policy for the organization and implements processes, tools, and resources to ensure planned and compliant transitions of services, components, and packages.
• Enforces the inclusion of test, validation, and configuration management in all release and deployment activities and provides authorization for critical release activities with a point of escalation.
• Ensures proactive measures are taken to anticipate, investigate, and resolve problems in systems and services, along with thorough documentation.
• Facilitates the development of problem solutions, coordinates the implementation of agreed-upon remedies and preventive measures, and conducts analysis of patterns and trends to enhance problem management processes.
• Leads the change management process from assessment to implementation, ensuring that changes are made in a controlled and effective manner.
• Develops and implements change management plans for complex requests, mitigating risks and ensuring approval.
• Build and nurture best in class technical teams to support Five Below's hyper-growth business trajectory
• Execute Five Below's talent management practices including performance management and associate development to promote overall associate performance, learning and growth opportunities
• Manages team capacity and participates in formal organizational processes to recruit, reward, and promote talent.
• Creates a positive and supportive work environment that motivates employees, promotes well-being, and enhances engagement.
• Provides career guidance and support, ensuring clear communication and delegation, and addressing employee welfare.
• Facilitates cross-functional leadership teams to deliver organizational goals, designing team processes and guiding decision-making.
• Champions learning and improvement within leadership teams and across the organization.
• Plans and manages the acquisition and deployment of resources to meet organizational needs, ensuring efficient and compliant execution.
• Leads the development and implementation of resourcing processes and tools, advising on options and measuring effectiveness.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 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 Merchandise Planning and Allocation and Finance technology solutions (Allocation, Demand Forecast, ERP, MFP, Vendor Management, PO Management), providing a secure, cohesive, consistent experience across all customer touchpoints
• Experience with vendor platforms including O9, Blue Yonder, JDA, Oracle Retail, and Oracle ERP a plus
• Experience in building highly productive engineering teams responsible for delivery, uptime, stability and operations of all applications and systems in a high-growth, omni-channel retailer
• Expertise in formulating and implementing operating processes, procedures and routines, such as incident management, automated monitoring and alerting, capacity planning, build versus buy decision making
• Expertise in open-source software development languages & frameworks such as Python, Java, Spring, NO-SQL DB's, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, and 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

Five Below is an Equal Opportunity Employer

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Five Below is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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