application developer lead (Nashville)

Now Brewing – application developer lead – Starbucks Technology Nashville! #tobeapartner

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others.

In this role, you will deliver and support technology solutions for Business Systems Development initiatives. As an application developer lead, you will collaboratively lead, identify, design, develop and deploy technology and process solutions establishing key business capabilities and platform features, enabling the realization of strategic initiatives and operational improvements. This role requires deep technical expertise, domain proficiency, platform depth, and leadership. Typical activities include leading requirements analysis, solution design, technical development, and process improvement coupled with the ability to drive efforts and solution improvements effectively across various IT and business functions. In addition to delivering new technology and enhancing/supporting existing systems, an effective application developer lead contributes technical, expertise, negotiates platform priorities and drives alignment. You will also coach and mentor experienced developers to help them progress their technical knowledge and careers. Models and acts in accordance with Starbucks guiding principles.

As an application developer lead, you will…

Technical Design and Implementation
• Effectively lead and collaborate in planning, decomposing, estimating, scheduling, prioritization and resource allocation exercises. Take the lead on prototype efforts for complex problems. Build incrementally, with an eye toward vision of the final product. Provide transparency in approach and progress, throughout the process.
• Lead the Development Team through the solution design process. Participate in requirements gathering and backlog refinement, take the lead in shaping and guiding systems approach, drive project initiation, contribute to functional design, and leads technical design and development.
• Develop software solutions to business problems. Leverage established design patterns and coding standards. Ensure solutions are secure, durable, scalable, flexible, and accessible and proactively mitigate against production support issues.
• Automate test coverage per platform capabilities and requirements. Establish and maintain continuous build and integration testing on applicable platforms and assist with manual system and integration testing efforts.
• Contribute to and drive deployment approach, including planning and execution, data conversion approach, script development and execution, warranty period and transition of the solution to the platform's operational context.
• Operate in both waterfall and Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes and methodologies.

Platform Stewardship
• Proactively shape and influence candidate solutions on the platform. This consultative part of the role explores the business capability portfolio to guide and direct solution options to ensure health of the platform.
• Play a creative role in the Platform Stewardship portfolio. Contribute to and drive the vision, roadmap, and platform investments needed to take our business solutions to the next level. Identify, influence, sell, and prioritize innovative platform opportunities, as well as technical debt, with regular reviews, creating programs and solutions to raise the level of the platform offering or remediate systemic operational problems.
• Lead partnership efforts with cross functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, QA and key Development teams, to strengthen and elevate the platform from a technology perspective. Successfully see designs and solutions through enterprise processes and governance to ensure compliant, secure and supportable solutions.
• Deepen vendor relationships to understand and influence vendor product offerings and roadmaps, improve support engagement and gain insight into technology trends.
• Contribute to the platform development community by providing input, content and feedback on design patterns, coding standards, and shared libraries.

Leadership
• Provide project leadership\: responsible for initiating, organizing, and championing small to medium development efforts for a team of developers over a shared code base.
• Supervise delivery of other developers on the team by setting priority and guiding deliverables.
• Keep projects on course by coordinating activities, monitoring project schedules, and costs.
• Effectively and efficiently analyze options in a team setting to make sound decisions. Partner with vendors to improve delivery models and ensure success.
• Represent the Development Team when engaged with cross functional teams, including functional analysts, Project Management, Development, Architecture, Infrastructure, and the business customer. Negotiate, facilitate, and influence others to gain alignment and mutually agreeable outcomes in complex and ambiguous situations. Socialize technical approach and design to project team and corresponding dependent teams.
• Take on leadership opportunities within the development team. Initiate and facilitate team meetings to socialize technical ideas, encourage a culture of technical excellence among peers, and identify good opportunities for adopting innovation.
• Coach and mentor other application developers learning new skills and technologies.
• Exhibit leadership courage with respectful, articulate positions to influence critical technology solutions.

Business Capability Portfolio
• Consult in the IT planning process by providing application and platform expertise for new business capabilities under consideration.
• Track and communicate planned and in-flight business capability efforts, lead and influence approach, scoping exercises and resource estimation.
• For a medium to large area of the business capability portfolio, responsible for rationalizing, designing and overseeing solution changes in the sustainment process.

Production Support for application and platform components
• Fulfill responsibilities for on call support, including potential coverage of pager rotation.
• Lead and train partners in collaboratively and effectively diagnosing, troubleshooting and remediating incidents and problems to support the end user community.
• Initiate and lead root cause analysis efforts to identify and implement solutions to operational issues.
• Create and maintain operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on items such as performance, service incidents and tickets set forth by the organization leadership. Identify systemic problems that need holistic solutions and feedback into platform roadmap exercises.
• Ensure documentation supporting training, system administration, deployment, and operational processes and procedures are created and well maintained.