What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager-Software Engineering position at 7-Eleven, Inc.?
▶ Who we are
Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.
As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.
But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.
At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90 years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.
Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.
▶ How we lead
At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.
- Be Customer Obsessed
- Be Courageous with Your Point of View
- Challenge the Status Quo
- Act Like an Entrepreneur
- Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
- Do the Right Thing
- Be Accountable
Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.
▶ About This Opportunity
Responsibilities
Lead multiple related teams, develop departmental priorities, and strategically distribute resources to align with business goals, IT Strategy, and annual plan.
This individual must have a passion for technology delivery and be able to thrive in a dynamic, fast-changing environment, without losing sight of core processes around development and delivery.
Must be able to work on and balance multiple high priority items at the same time.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Strong interpersonal skills to foster effective collaboration with internal teams and external vendors.
Provide technical leadership and vision for the ongoing transformation of our ERP environment towards more cloud- and SaaS-based systems, keeping abreast of current technology trends.
Experience with some or all of the following: Oracle database/RAC/Exa technologies, Oracle EBS, data warehouses, ETL processes, AWS/Azure/OCI provisioning, performance monitoring and tuning, patching and upgrade processes, database backup/DR/replication/restore processes, data modeling, data center management, SOx/PCI/GxP or other compliance requirements, managing budgets, vendor negotiations.
Provide technical expertise to plan, analyze, define and support the delivery of current on premise and future cloud functional and technical capabilities for Oracle E-Business Suite application.
Manage the development, execution, operations architecture, assist in facilitating impact assessment efforts, producing & reviewing estimates for client work requests, develop requirements & solutions, and manage creation of quality of deliverables.
Maintain high-availability services along with a regular cadence of project deployments, enhancements, fixes, and ad hoc requests, solving complex operational and organizational problems.
Manages and validates the creation of key documentation for business requirements, functional specifications, technical specifications, and testing documents will be required.
Must be able to work directly with the business team to define and refine requirements and propose solutions
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Education: Bachelors/ 4 Yr degree
Years of Relevant Work Experience: 15 years
Years of Management Experience: NA
Minimum of 15 years of experience in EBS environment on different areas (database administration and Oracle Business Suite in a large corporate environment that include including at least 3 years in a managerial or team lead role.)
Strong knowledge of industry-standard database management practices and methodologies.
Experience working in a highly regulated industry, such as Retail, is a plus.
Familiarity with cloud-based database platforms (e.g., Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure SQL Database) is a plus.
Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a team of database administrators.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Good project management skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment
