Job ID: 228150
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 525 Market St, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Remote Eligible: Hybrid Schedule (Onsite 2-3 days per week)

Company Overview:

At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

The Opportunity:

Technology

Our technology team works fast and smart. With San Francisco as our home, we take bringing new tech to market seriously, developing the latest in mobile technologies, scalable architecture, and the coolest in-store client experience. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it. The Technology group is comprised of motivated self-starters and true team players that are absolutely integral to the growth of Sephora and our future success.

Your role at Sephora:

As our Senior Manager you will be playing a pivotal role in laying out the next level technical architecture and foundation for some of our existing and new business applications which is needed to meet the aggressive growth plans defined by the eCommerce engineering team at Sephora.

Reporting to the Senior Director, eCommerce Engineering, this role is expected to work very closely with product and business to evaluate and understand initiatives from areas including eCommerce order capture and omni fulfillment, omni channel promotions, payments and profile integrations, and provide delivery ownership of core microservices for the eCommerce domain. The role will be responsible for planning and directing the work of highly talented group of engineers while collaborating with extremely talented peers, leads from cross functional teams and enterprise architects to deliver the best-in-class solutions and experience for our clients.

Come be a part of the team that is chartered to deliver best of the breed solutions in the Sephora eCommerce space.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the technical implementation of multiple business capabilities concurrently to support the business growth
• Provide the technical, architectural and functional stewardship while building highly scalable, cost efficient and client focused solutions.
• Build and foster a high-performance engineering culture, mentor team members and provide team with the tools and motivation to make things happen
• Build collaborative partnerships with other leaders, peers, architects, technical leads and key individuals within other functional groups
• Work with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop new solutions or enhance existing solution
• Work with other engineering and product leaders to evolve our delivery processes and drive cross-team collaboration and cooperation
• Lead a team of 6-8 people and ensure their career planning and progression
• Demonstrate our Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 16+ years of overall industry experience in managing high performing teams including hands-on experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering enterprise solutions using Java/J2EE based microservices, Spring, Spring Boot frameworks, JBoss and other web related technologies
• Strong subject matter expertise in retail, eCommerce order capture, payment and promotions business domains
• First-hand experience in designing, deploying and managing Java micro services and RESTful APIs
• Strong hands-on experience in designing and deploying cloud-based applications using micro services architecture and best practices preferably on MS Azure cloud platform
• Prior experience in decomposing monolith application into micro services and deployed them in highly available, scalable and fault tolerant setup on cloud platforms
• Working experience with Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Istio service mesh, Feign client for third party calls, service discovery, Prometheus and Azure logging
• Implemented monitoring and alerts dashboards using Splunk, Nagios and App Dynamics
• Hands-on experience with queueing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, JMS, Coherence, etc
• Good hands-on experience with MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL Postgres, Redis databases as high-performance cloud IaaS and PaaS setup
• Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding standards and design patterns to avoid them in the first place
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines, building regression-able code using GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applications
• Analytical approach to problem-solving with an ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus; excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills
• Highly self-motivated, independent, efficient and able to handle several projects; work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities
• Ability to work in a fast-paced (startup like) agile development environment
• Friendly, articulate, and interested in working in a fun, small team environment
• Experience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing and self-serviceable applications will be a plus
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent; MS preferred

You’ll love working here because:

• The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.
• The product. Employees enjoy a product discount and receive free product (“gratis”) various times throughout the year. (Think your friends and family love you now? Just wait until you work at Sephora!)
• The business. It feels good to win – and Sephora is a leader in the retail industry, defining experiential retail with a digital focus and creating the most loved beauty community in the world…with the awards and accolades to back it up.
• The perks. Sephora offers comprehensive medical benefits, generous vacation/holiday time off, commuter benefits, and “Summer Fridays” (half-days every Friday between Memorial and Labor Day)…and so much more.
• The LVMH family. Sephora’s parent company, LVMH, is one of the largest luxury groups in the world, providing support to over 70 brands such as Louis Vuitton, Celine, Marc Jacobs, and Dior.

Working at Sephora’s Field Support Center (FSC)

Our North American operations are based in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, but you won’t hear us call it a headquarters – it’s the Field Support Center (FSC). At the FSC, we support our stores in providing the best possible experience for every client. Dedicated teams cater to our client’s every need by creating covetable assortments, curated content, compelling storytelling, smart strategy, skillful analysis, expert training, and more. It takes a lot of curious and confident individuals, disrupting the status quo and taking chances. The pace is fast, the fun is furious, and the passion is real. We never rest on our laurels. Our motto? If it’s not broken, fix it.

The annual base salary range for this position is $156,000.00 - $205,500.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. Sephora offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan, various paid time off programs; employee discount/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program.

While at Sephora, you’ll enjoy…

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  The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.
• The learning. We invest in training and developing our teams, and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
• The culture. As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family, our reach is broad, and our impact is global. It is in our DNA to innovate and, at Sephora, all 40,000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3,000+ stores, are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

You can unleash your creativity, because we’ve got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve, because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself, because you are what sets us apart. This, is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future, at Sephora.

Sephora is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status. Sephora is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Sephora will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.