Software Development Manager

  • Full-time
  • Technology CF Job Family: Software Engineering
  • Group Function: Tesco Technology

Company Description

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone?s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues ? who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

Role Accountabilities

Technical strategy:
The SDM plays a key role in formulation of the technical roadmap and strategy collaborates with both internal and external stakeholders and leads cross-functional teams in the development of the roadmap.
•Understand technology landscape and its implication to retail Industry
•Evaluate prototype and present implementation use cases.
•Induce Tesco approved technology change to their respective domains.

Technology coaching and development:
SDM's establish and sustain the environment for development to exist and succeed. Their primary focus is to hire retain and develop our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) through creating and aligning individual’s short- and long-term objectives and development plan alongside the goals of the wider team and business.
They actively work to set the SDEs up for success providing course corrections as necessary. SDMs also help SDEs get the right mentorship to ensure they grow more expertise and to address any weaknesses hindering their effectiveness.

Team structure and technology processes:
SDMs build effective performing teams that consistently deliver quality software whilst balancing the demands of timeframes and needs.

They build an effective customer engagement process to ensure their teams have awareness of the importance of good customer experience and show responsiveness to customer experience during development as well as in operational issues.

Delivery and stakeholder management:
SDMs are accountable for the slices they own in a program and proactively identify risks propose mitigations and get them reviewed with their manager stakeholders and customers. They also know when to ask for help or escalate. SDMs are great at spoken and written communication.

Qualifications

Areas of expertise we look for:
•Good knowledge of open source technology stack
•Programming languages: Java 1.8 and above versions
•Knowledge of data structures algorithms & good problem-solving skills
•Ability to deal with internet scale problems with special emphasis on scale security and performance of the applications/platforms
•Good knowledge of distributed systems tool kit (Micro-services architecture implementing caching mechanisms & message queuing technique knowledge of No-Sql database)
•Knowledge of Unit testing BDD/TDD approach
•Cloud / On-premise deployment experience (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment Docker & Kubernetes AWS/Azure etc)

Qualifications

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Additional Information

Hiring Manager-Saravana Barani Srinivasan

Last Date of Application-13th March 2024

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