by Ronald Barron | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Senior Technology Manager’s primary responsibility is to partner with their business areas and provide technology solutions and services that help deliver CarMax’s strategic mission and plans. This position will direct and manage the strategic planning, software development, implementation, administration and maintenance for a large suite of application systems.
This includes development of long and short-term technology solutions that address business goals and deliver improved profitability, efficiency and an unrivaled associate experience.
Position Requirements:
- Identify the appropriate goals for the teams
- Prioritizing objectives and provide a holistic approach to solution recommendations that includes ROI, time to market, scalability as well as alternative recommendations
Communication
- Partner with business stakeholders, peer groups, the Technology management team and key associates.
- Present the vision to executive management.
- Communicate the vision to executive management while also providing guidance for the team to support the strategic direction.
Team Leadership and Development
- Attract, recruit, retain and coach a strong team of skilled and engaged associates aligned to the overall mission.
- Create clear role expectations and develop associates to reach their full potential – understand their goals and needs, partner in their development, provide advice, feedback, training and advocacy
Technology
- Continue to grow one’s knowledge base and stay current with industry trends while also formulating a technology plan for each business area based on in-depth understanding of the current business needs and their future direction.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Passionate about information technology
- Persuasive communicator – able to explain complex or intangible concepts to stakeholders at all levels
- Good listener – weighs input from multiple perspectives when forming opinions and recommendations
- Collaborative and team-oriented work approach
- Experience gaining consensus among a large, diverse group of stakeholders
- Experience managing, training and mentoring others in Technology software development and SaaS/Software Package implementation best practices.
- Able to easily motivate and inspire team members, peers, stakeholders and executives
- Innovative; thinks beyond boundaries
- Analytical; solves problems at root cause and prioritizes effectively
- Continuous learner and improvement mentality; never satisfied
- Comfortable speaking to large audiences and executives
- Flexible and open-minded; proactively seeks input from others
- Entrepreneurial drive and spirit; enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
- Handles constructive criticism with ease; adapts easily and efficiently to change
- Posting: Role (Remote)
- “Work location is flexible if approved by the Company except that position may not be performed remotely from Hawaii or Colorado”
EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE:
- BS/BA degree – Technology related, preferred
- 7+ years of experience in Information Technology with 5+ years of application systems development and implementation
- 3+ years’ experience managing direct reports
- 3+ years of experience required leading software projects leveraging Agile practices, required
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
GoDaddy is looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our Data & Analytics team. We’re a distributed team dedicated to building state-of-the-art data capabilities to improve and transform GoDaddy products and experiences. We are a dynamic and growing company that loves what we do and are looking for passionate people to share our vision!
GoDaddy product teams lead with hypothesis testing to make data-driven decisions, combining data and cutting-edge software systems, to help other GoDaddy teams provide the best experience for our customers!
Location
The manager for this role is in Kirkland, WA but, we would be happy to hire an amazing candidate that works remotely from a US location.
This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Colorado, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands
What you’ll get to do
- Defining roadmap, vision and execution for building real time streaming capabilities, SDK’s and tooling on the Data Platform
- Collaborating and driving end to end features across one or more product groups
- Collaborating with experimentation and machine learning teams to bring together real time streaming events for analytics, machine learning and experimentation
- Deliver real time egress capabilities for data gathered through event streams
Your experience should include
- 8+ years of technical product management experience in managing a platform or service across multiple releases
- An understanding of streaming architecture and big data systems
- Technical understanding of streaming, and related, technologies and how they’re applied to solve real world scenarios: kinesis, kafka, flink, lambda, SNS, SQS, spark, rabbitmq
- Experience supporting platforms and SDK/tooling to enable self service
- End to end customer experience to identify and manage interdependencies between product and engineering teams
- Experience in customer/partner interaction with the ability to optimally and proactively communicate and build a trusted advisor relationship.
- A bias for action and seeing things through data-driven and accountable.
- Prioritization chops to help inform critical cross team priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Passionate, self-starter, inventive,
You might also have
- Experience working with real-time Machine learning inference, preferably in AWS.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Cloud Automation Engineer works closely with architects, application development and platform teams to develop and maintain automation and self-service solutions that support H&R Block application teams. This position uses state of the art tools, languages, coding standards and best practices to develop new features and capabilities of application delivery and operations. You will be challenged to continuously improve our use of the Public Cloud, automation, DevOps, and self-service cloud infrastructure capabilities through building and innovating on a broad and powerful platform extended to simplify and improve the software development experience.
About the Job:
- Provide technical expertise to design, develop and maintain automation platforms responsible for delivering cloud infrastructure that is scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant on Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management for Cloud and DevOps Components
- Design/Implement self-service cloud offerings using Terraform Enterprise, working closely with App/Dev teams in the adoption of new MS Azure Cloud features and services
- Implement Architecture and Security standards through automation to ensure cloud infrastructure adheres to approved design patterns and security posture
- Participate in thought leadership by incorporating DevOps practices for automation of application installation, observability, code deployment, configuration, and ongoing support tasks
- Positively and proactively lead and influence the team.
What you’ll do…
- Play a key engineering role in the enterprise adoption of Azure Public Cloud offerings (Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), PaaS SQL, Cosmos, Application Service Environment (ASE), Service Bus, SignalR, Redis, IaaS VMs, etc).
- Stay ahead of the Microsoft Azure product lifecycle for new and existing PaaS offerings by performing proof of concept and other efforts to vet new technology.
- Contribute to engineering efforts in Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines that leverage Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and modules. Further advance automation efforts towards delivery of an enterprise self-service cloud resource provisioning solution to be used by Enterprise DevOps teams.
- Design, deploy, manage and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, and ongoing support tasks for Cloud Environments, Operating Systems – RedHat Linux, Microsoft Windows Server
- Work directly with App/Dev teams to further automate infrastructure build and app deployments
- Scale infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing seasonal demand
- Work closely with App/Dev in the adoption of new MS Azure Cloud features and services, including execution of technology proof of concepts, pilots and production deployments
- Help the team adopt DevOps practices into daily engineering and operations
- Develop and improve operational practices and procedures
- Effectively coordinate support escalation communication; participate in the development and maintenance of appropriate project technical documentation including design, configuration, and installation
- Enable the modernization of Cloud Operations by participating in Observability and Application Monitoring, Alerting and Site Reliability practices.
What you’ll bring to the team…
What you’ll bring to the team…
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience.
- 2-3 years Minimum related work experience
It would be even better if you also had…
It would be even better if you also had…
- 2+ years of systems administrator experience; preferably in Public Cloud or large Enterprise Level Data Centers
- 2+ Cloud and automation experience
- 2+ years working with Cloud orchestration and automation
- 2+ years working with Cloud platforms – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- 2+ years working knowledge with Cloud service provider technologies (Microsoft Azure preferred, or AWS)
- Experience in object-oriented software design and development
- Technical skills in Server operating systems (Windows and Linux) including Administration, Clustering, and PowerShell
- Programmatic skills that leverage languages and scripting.
- Knowledge and experience with CI/CD concepts.
- Knowledge of automation, orchestration and configuration management technologies such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack and advanced scripting knowledge with Python, PowerShell, Bash, VBScript or equivalent.
- Technical knowledge across various disciplines to resolve complex infrastructure integration issues and problems and interface with multiple vendors to coordinate resolution of issues.
- Experience operating in a large enterprise environment and understanding of implementation of systems at scale.
- Strong communications and teaming skills.
- Ability to operate in an agile, fast-paced environment.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Position Summary
High impact, high responsibility. Build a cloud-based data platform, warehouse, and data lake to support industry-leading data applications, data science applications, predictive modeling, and machine learning deployments. Plan and deploy an ecosystem of data storage and tools to access millions of log records from digital touchscreen devices.
This position offers you an excellent opportunity to build out a brand-new data platform on Cloud from the ground up, flexibility, and the opportunity to influence decisions across the business unit.
PatientPoint is an entrepreneurial environment that values innovative thinking and using data to solve problems in a collaborative environment. Minimal travel. Growth potential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, and build data platforms and systems with modern cloud-based technologies such as AWS and Snowflake.
- Design and build data pipelines using efficient and cost-effective solutions for different patterns such as large datasets.
- Design and build data processing systems with batch as well as real-time streaming data such as user impressions.
- Analyze, plan, and execute data warehouse development, monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Prototype ideas, run experiments and iterate to better design data-driven solutions to business problems.
- Create queries and scripts for the development and deployment of features and for production database and data warehouse support.
- Design and develop automated processes to perform scheduled tasks, ETL, and maintenance activities.
- Collaborate, design, and develop backup and recovery plans and processes.
- Proactively analyze data platform performance and make recommendations for improvements.
- Communicate insights and recommend areas for further data platform enhancements.
Education, Training and Experience:
- Bachelor’s required, Masters preferred. Information systems, Computer Science, business analytics, informatics, information technology, or a related field preferred.
- 5+ years of hands-on, real-world experience with various cloud-based databases (AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Azure SQL Server).
- Mastery of SQL and Python programming and relational data ETL, including data definition.
- Knowledge and demonstrated ability with ETL tools.
- Experience with obtaining data from external API’s and flat files required.
- Mastery of various relational databases such as Oracle or MariaDB helpful.
- Experience in working with Streaming Data Platforms such as KAFKA and other Big Data platforms such as Databricks is helpful.
- Experience in working with ETL Job orchestration tools such as Airflow and ADF is helpful.
- Experience in working with clickstream data for digital ad impressions is helpful.
- Experience with storage and retrieval of data in NoSQL databases helpful.
- Experience with graph databases helpful.
- Experience with GIS and spatial data analysis helpful.
- Experience with CICD tools such as Jenkins and code repo tools such as GitHub are useful.
Locations:
ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, TX, MN, IA, MO, AR, LA, WI, IL, KY, MS, AL, MI, IN, TN, GA, FL, OH, NC, SC, WV, VA, PA, DC, CT, NJ, NY, RI, NH, ME, MD, DE, VTÂ
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