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Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits Senior Director Front-End Engineering in Miramar, Florida
What You Need To Know
Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.
As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.
We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.
Overview
Seeking an experienced and Engineering Leader with a strong background in user experience design, construction, test, delivery and implementation. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving high velocity engineering, and has competencies in technical, strategic, and interpersonal skills. As a Front-End Engineering Leader, you will lead a team of skilled professionals, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, secure, and performant engineering solutions.
Do you like building modern digital applications? Do you geek out about cloud services and cloud application architecture? Ever wanted to be part of building and shaping the engineering culture in a product driven, user-centered-design organization? Well, this is your chance. Here at Southern Glazer’s, we are embarking on a bold journey to transform and revolutionize the ways in which digital technology is used in the beverage alcohol industry. We’ve assembled a world class group of product and technology leaders that are bringing this vision to life. To do this we need to build a best-in-class digital technology engineering organization.
We are building a portfolio of web and mobile applications, as well as modernizing existing applications so that we can deliver software the business needs with speed, while maintaining and strengthening quality and security. To do this, we need you. We need software engineers that think like product managers. We need software engineers that obsess over observability and know how to take advantage of all that modern cloud platform like Azure and AWS have to offer. In short, we need people that are passionate about building high-performing digital experiences, who know what it takes to build products that surprise, delight and improve the lives of users.
Essential Skills
Leadership and mentorship: Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop technology managers and engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Strategic thinking: Strong ability to develop and execute strategic plans, aligning technology initiatives with business objectives and customer needs.
Technical proficiency: Deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies, web and mobile development frameworks, and modern SDLC practices.
Problem-solving: Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify challenges, analyze solutions, and implement effective strategies to overcome obstacles.
Collaboration and influence: Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, influence decision-making processes, and drive technology innovation across the organization.
Agile methodology: Proficiency in agile software development methodologies, with a commitment to implementing agile best practices within engineering teams.
Primary Responsibilities
Oversee a multi-disciplinary and multi-team group of software engineers, implementing modern Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices within agile software delivery pods.
Cultivate a high-performing, achievement-oriented culture that supports psychological safety and fosters an intentional, driven, and enjoyable work environment.
Exhibit exemplary leadership qualities, showing what it means to be a high-integrity partner across IT, business units, and shared service functions.
Collaborate in the creation of SGWS’s future state software product/platform delivery model, ensuring alignment with cloud-native environment requirements and digital experience delivery.
Lead and support the development of teams proficient in web and mobile experiences, cloud-native application/service infrastructure, and the implementation of modern software delivery pipelines.
Manage 2-3+ Technology Managers, guiding both product and project delivery in a rapidly evolving environment, with a co-accountability for strategic alignment of team practices.
Actively participate in the recruitment and development of engineering talent, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide strategic goals and fostering an innovative technology landscape.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree and formal education in relevant disciplines (Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics or relevant degreed)
10+ years related experience in technology management, customer relationship management and staff management
Expertise in major front-end tech (e.g., React/React Native, Angular, Vue, Adobe Experience Manager, SFDC Front-end (Lightning etc.)).
Proficiency in responsive design, mobile-first approaches, and web standards
Knowledge of CI/CD tools and practices
Ability to align technical efforts with business goals and priorities
Experience in tech stack decision-making and strategy development
Strong leadership and team management skills, especially leading front-end engineering teams
Effective communication and negotiation capabilities
Conflict resolution and problem-solving acumen
Understanding of team growth and retention opportunities
Physical Demands
Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs
EEO Statement
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.