Tech Lead - Digital Store DevOps

OVERVIEW

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

 

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE: 

Digital Store Platform DevOps team is currently looking for an experienced, hands-on Technical Lead to work in our team. You will work closely with Architects, Developers, SDETS, Product Owners, Scrum masters and other cross functional teams to implement and support highly scalable, distributed, ecommerce applications built on Java and cloud technologies. As a technical lead you will spend the days translating business requirements into low level design, writing code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leading a small team of engineers in a fast-paced agile scrum environment and support the DevOps practices to ensure high availability of services that power the digital experience at Ulta Beauty.

 

YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH ALL THESE GOALS BY: 

• Implement the best in class and industry leading DevOps and SRE practices at Ulta.
• Lead team of engineers working to support Ulta.com and Native Ulta Apps (iOS & Android) in highly diverse and cross functional production landscape environment, who provide 24x7 support across Onsite and Offshore geographies
• Collaborates with Architects, Product owners, Scrum masters, Tech Leads, QA, and cross functional teams to implement software solutions ensuring best practices and code quality while assisting teams’ members.
• Investigates complex issues, implements fixes, and performs performance tuning.
• Provide support for various business and product stakeholders on Ulta.com and App and collaborates with the different support teams across the Organizations for maintenances and such activities
• Focus on improving various support metrics for the ticket handling and customer resolutions.
• Bring innovative solutions to the table to solve critical guest facing and business facing problems.
• Improve Observability, Monitoring and Alerting abilities across the different components and services within Digital Store Platform.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Guide and mentor junior members of the Front-End team, fostering their growth and skill development.
• Collaborate with management to expand the DevOps & SRE practice at Ulta, encompassing activities such as: Assessing and training vendor augmentation resources, enhancing estimation models, documenting solution practices, participating in the interview and hiring process, conducting API contract negotiations, making project-level staffing decisions.
• Utilize field experience to research and implement improvements to our delivery methodology, focusing on areas such as: Atomic/modular design integration, testing practices (Unit, End-to-End, BDD), API integration, security best practices, continuous integration procedures, error logging, performance optimization.

 

ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10 years of experience in software development with broad experience designing, programming, and implementing large information systems, with specific experience in Java/JEE 8 and web technology with functional programing experience.
• Experience in team management of midsize in house and augmented/outsourced software teams.
• Strong exposure to collaborative engineering methodologies: agile, code reviews, linting, continuous integration, cloud deployments, etc.
• Demonstrated expertise developing enterprise-scale REST APIs using Microservices, implementing event-driven architectures, working with message streams using Google Cloud technologies
• Expert-level knowledge of the Java Stack: Maven/Gradle, Spring Boot, Spring with test driven approach. Strong understanding of application development, web services, open-source frameworks, service-oriented architecture (SOA), object-oriented design and analysis, design patterns and best practices.
• Familiarity with Junit, SonarQube, Swagger/OAS 3.0, JIRA, Confluence, monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, SumoLogic
• Proficiency in Cloud Platforms – GCP.
• Experience with NoSQL database such as MongoDB
• Hands-on expert level knowledge on scripting using appropriate language.
• Expertise in managing technical priorities within the backlog.
• Experience in working Redis Cloud is highly desired.
• Experience with Commerce Tools is a plus
• Knowledge of Reactive programming is a plus
• Passion for learning new technologies and eagerness to collaborate with other creative minds
• Good written and verbal communicable skills.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to align the organization with complex technical decisions.
• Must be proactive, self-directed, detailed and organized.
• Support off-hours production issues and code deployments as needed.

 

 

The pay range for this position is $100,900.00 - $165,000.00 / Year with the opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company’s bonus plan. Exact pay will be based on factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, level, shift, geographic location, and business and organizational needs. Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits. Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits. For additional information concerning our benefits, visit our Benefits and Career Development page: https://learn.bswift.com/ulta

ABOUT

At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

 

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

Salary : $100,900 - $165,000