Digital Technical Lead- E-commerce Quedgeley, England
Job description
Hybrid 2-3 days per week onsite in Quedgeley
Salary up to £67K + company bonus, car allowance and incredible benefits!
As a Digital Technical Lead- E-commerce, you will be part of a growing global team within the Kohler Co., working to support new digital initiatives across Kohler businesses. Collaborating with other developers and architects to create innovative technical solutions and frameworks that will build Kohler Co. moving forward.
You will design and deliver digital marketing solutions for our customers, using your technical knowledge to realize a business vision. You will be tasked with creating standard projects and solutions, that maximize the use of standard features of our technology, and minimize creation of special cases and once-only customization.
Working with the delivery teams to ensure that the right work is being delivered, and also with the business to guide and educate on the correct way to position our solutions. You will bring a strong technical consulting background and will be tasked with conducting technical customer/prospect discovery sessions, driving the design of solution. You will be part of a global team delivering to a high standard and focusing on technical work to on-board our customers quickly and effectively
You will be focused on continuous improvement and learning, drive towards solutions and help shape the future digital development capabilities at Kohler Co.
Basic Objective
- Operate as the technical influence of consumer facing web sites and e-Commerce solutions, operating in a fast-paced environment of changing priorities that require frequent re-balancing and re-factoring.
- Provide solution architecture and design, perform gap analysis between business requirements and platform features.
- Define non-functional requirements and development processes, platform and tools usage for solution delivery.
- Review and audit of architecture, design and solution delivery.
- Act as a thought leader on emerging technologies and their application to the digital product roadmap.
Specific responsibilities
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Collaborate closely with the Scrum masters, Architects, QA, Dev/Ops, as well as multiple organizations within the company to deliver high-quality products on time, on target and within budget.
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Responsible for all assigned delivery activities across the offshore technical / scrum team and be the onshore escalation point for all application support and development issues specific to their assigned domain and projects.
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Mentor developers. Perform code reviews. Be a guide for engineering best practices.
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Partner with the onshore Product Manager to ensure customer requirements are being communicated to the scrum team and teams are collaborating successfully.
Provide guidance to development team throughout all phases of scrum (backlog grooming, sprint planning, estimation/story pointing and retro/demo)
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Recommend resource assignments on projects across a multi-faceted team on multiple products and platforms
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Provide input into architecting the hardware environment, services platform, application platform, and database. Work with Dev/Ops on managing the lower environments (dev, qa, uat, build servers, deployment, etc.)
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Work with architects and management to manage risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture. Help ensure the architecture is sustainable, deployable, and secure
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Create and enforce technical, coding standards, tools, platforms, and approaches
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Coordinate with the development teams and vendors to ensure the right teams are working on the right build components at the right time, with clear expectations of milestones and goals
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Collaborate with Delivery Team and provide expertise on IT methodology and Agile processes
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Apply and execute microservice, API and integration development best practices while adhering to team and industry coding standards, and corporate policies
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Analyse and support development of specifications, considering feasibility, cost and time required, compatibility with current system, and computer capabilities required for services
- Support the creation and curation of documentation and repositories to describe program development, logic, coding, and versioning, including standards for PCI and SOX compliance
Skills/Requirements
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At least 3 years hands-on experience with modern web frameworks delivering robust software and solutions for enterprise e-commerce applications
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Technical leadership experience
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Working with offshore technology vendors
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Delivering technical projects using Agile Scrum
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Working in a Cloud platform (Azure preferred)
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Advanced knowledge of Javascript, Node, Java and experience with search tools such as Lucidworks, Solr or Elasticsearch
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
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Why Work at Kohler?
Kohler’s mission is to contribute to a higher level of gracious living for those who are touched by our products and services. We understand that it takes investment in our associates’ development to make that happen. So, we offer ongoing investment in each individual’s personal development and the opportunity to collaborate with others across functions and roles at Kohler.
In addition to the investment in your development, Kohler offers a benefits package including a competitive salary, bonus, health plan, pension and more!
About Us
At Kohler EMEA Corporate Services we support Kohler businesses in our region, we have an excellent team of dedicated associates focused on delivering exceptional customer service and ensuring every interaction is a genuine, positive and rewarding experience for both our internal and external customers. We represent the Corporate Functions found in Kohler, Wisconsin here in the EMEA region – Finance, Tax, IT, Internal Audit, Procurement, Environment Health & Safety, Quality & Continuous Improvement, & HR. We all pride ourselves on adding value to the Kohler businesses we support in the region and work closely with our Kohler Corporate colleagues in Wisconsin on global initiatives and projects.
Beyond the competitive benefits and compensation, Kohler proudly offers a rich history, steeped in creativity and a commitment to our associates and communities.
