Director, Software Engineering (P4130)

84.51° Overview:

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.

Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.

84.51° follows a 5‑day in‑office work schedule to support collaboration, alignment, and team connection.

Join us at 84.51°!

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PLEASE NOTE:

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United Stated and with the Kroger Family of Companies (i.e. H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Director, Software Engineering (P4130)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

-Execute the vision, goals, priorities, and work alongside the team to accomplish them. Ensure high-quality technical solutions.

-Leading and coaching direct reports in the performance of responsibilities; providing ongoing feedback to direct reports and completing performance reviews.

-Drive continuous improvement to deliver solutions that are at the forefront of industry leading techniques while also adhering to best practices.

-Directly support technical mentoring and growth of team’s technical maturity through pairing and other coaching techniques. Grow new mentors from emerging talent.

-Support a culture of learning and development. Promote and enable technical skills development in support of high-quality code components, systems, and solutions.

-Partner with Data Scientists, Engineers, and Product talent to ensure our solutions deliver against requirements, scope, and system deployment needs.

-Help lead the technical vision and strategy for prompt engineering, ensuring innovative and efficient approaches to drive excellence in data products, scaled sciences, and/or AI based products.

-Building relationships with key partners within the business and Kroger Technology organization to share best practices, help accelerate the growth of both organizations, and deliver joint initiatives as appropriate.

-Leverage a servant leadership approach in the recruiting, motivating, mentoring, and growing of world-class teams and creating a followership that teams want to work with.

-Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels in both verbal and written communications, preparing / presenting strategic visions and presentations to executive leadership team.

-Driving for continuous improvement in operational effectiveness within Engineering and across 84.51°.

-Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

-Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or another heavily technical program

-10+ years’ experience in a hands on technical role leading/mentoring by example

-Be a change agent and foster a learn by doing environment

-Strong software development leadership skills bringing industry proven best practices to fruition

-Experience building enterprise level software solutions with solid proficiencies in performance tuning and debugging.

-Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving skills. Strong analytical mind.

-Comfortable with thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo, respectfully and courageously, to deliver results in a dynamic environment.

-Mastery in many of the following tech skills and principles:

-Agile Experience

-Git

CI/CD

-Automated Testing

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

-Knowledgeable and experienced in the following tech skills and principles:

-Technical Management experience

-SOA and Microservice design principlesPython

-Experience with Azure or other cloud platform

-Experience with MLOps/LLMOps patterns and solutions 

-Experience with Databricks, ML Flow, PySpark

-Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Harness or related tools Experience with AKS a plus

-DevOps principles

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Pay Transparency and Benefits

• The stated salary range represents the entire span applicable across all geographic markets from lowest to highest. Actual salary offers will be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to geographic location, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data and cost of labor. In addition to salary, this position is also eligible for variable compensation.

• Below is a list of some of the benefits we offer our associates:

• Health: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health. Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit. Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.

• Wealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution. Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan). AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.

• Happiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year. Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.

Base Pay Range

$162,000—$262,200 USD