Job description
As the
Director of Modernization, you will be responsible for setting the direction of service modernization within our Digital, Analytics & Technology team. You’ll craft the modernization principles and assessments for teams to reference and work with leaders to drive initiatives and quickly establish a mission statement. You’ll help identify where standards gaps exist such as in tooling, software as a service, cloud services, and processes. The evolution of these standards will translate into a reduction in redundant technologies, an increase in code quality, and a consistent method for support.
What you’ll do
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online, and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
What you’ll do
- Own the Modernization and Simplification portfolio for Digital, Analytics & Technology, and tracking the realization of committed benefits and value.
- Work with the Technology Architecture team to discover and build a service modernization strategy
- Maintain an official list of Best Buy services to track their modernization state
- Help define standards for platform capabilities in the cloud
- Lead the creation of a 'culture of experimentation' through request process definition, experiment artifact tracking, reporting, lessons learned, and dissemination.
- Build a project introduction that includes alignment on objectives, eliminating duplicate functionality, risk identification, milestones, and key performance indicators
- Identify and prioritize candidate applications for modernizing based on established criteria.
- Establish a framework for assessing directional costs for experimentation through production
Basic Qualifications
- 8 years of relevant experience
- 4 years of experience in leading modernization efforts. (e.g. digital transformation, cloud migration, application refactoring to modular architecture, etc.)
- 3 years of experience designing and implementing in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- 2 years of experience managing and leading engineering teams.
- 1 year of experience managing managers
- Built and led highly efficient engineering teams leveraging iterative or agile methodologies
- Experience leading multiple complex and cross-functional initiatives
- Strong understanding of implementing public cloud-native technologies and implications on security, cost, and engineering
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading teams supporting revenue-generating and mission critical applications
- Experience engineering or designing applications and services supporting high transaction volume
- History of success driving technology change across organizations through influence
- Experience establishing and leading vision, setting direction, and charting a path for engineering teams to follow
- Experience developing a curriculum for upskilling engineers (cloud, front end development, full stack development, etc.)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Architect
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Financial savings and retirement resources
- Support for your physical and mental well-being
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online, and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
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