O'Reilly Auto Parts · 20 hours ago
Platform Engineering and Architecture Manager - Integrations
Springfield, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expO'Reilly Auto Parts is a company with a proven track record of growth and stability, seeking a Manager of Platform Engineering to direct the development of a crucial IT platform. The role involves overseeing a team of platform engineers, managing infrastructure developments, and aligning strategic roadmaps with organizational objectives.
AutomotiveManufacturingRetailWholesale
Responsibilities
Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met
Lead a team of highly motivated platform engineers, supporting complex architecture and design challenges
Document the most complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required
Develop and maintain strategic roadmap for your platform, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives
Elicit the complex business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target deliverables, features, and capabilities
Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals
Develop straightforward business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment
Gain a firm understanding of the organization’s expectations in regards to production incidents, strategic initiatives, and security concerns to effectively manage and prioritize work
Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives
Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential
Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues
Manage segments of the organization's technology implementation, implementing methods and promoting efficiency
Manage complex technical challenges, ensuring effective diagnosis of complex technical issues with software and experiments and the development of effective solutions
Oversee a segment of technical support policies, optimizing operations to achieve specified results
Participate in after-hours support escalation, including applicable oncall responsibilities
Plan and budget for training and growth opportunities for engineering team
Qualification
Required
Monitor, interpret and understand standards, policies and procedures and ensure their alignment with organizational strategies and work objectives
Determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making
Understand, deploy, and manage various infrastructure components such as compute, storage, cloud, network, observability and tooling/automation
Understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business
Monitor, diagnose and fix problems with technology products
Express user needs in terms of business requirements, identify current capabilities to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach
Create clear, comprehensive, effective, and user-friendly guides, manuals, narratives, and reports that convey complex technical concepts, using documentation tools to craft structured and visually appealing content that meets the intended purposes
Conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy
Provide input to architecture designs, incorporating system/service requirements
Develop an effective change strategy based on gap analyses and enterprise readiness assessment results, including transitions states and release plans
Review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required
Understand and execute architectures, policies and practices in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization
Utilize appropriate budget and resource planning tools to ensure effective and relevant resource plans, identifying and escalating capacity constraints when applicable
Develop and maintain professional development plans for both individual contributors and the team, providing timely feedback via one on ones
Conduct end of year evaluations, compose and track individual contributor goals, and participate in succession planning and promotion nominations
Provide conflict resolution within the team and escalate to Senior Management and HR as needed and when applicable
Effectively manage projects, ensuring work is clearly understood by team and progress is clearly communicated up the chain of command
Manage service requests, ensuring appropriate SLAs are met, SOPs and KB articles are followed, and that individual contributors understand and follow appropriate processes and policies
Preferred
Project Management experience and/or certification
Experience with ITIL
Experience in an Agile environment
Experience managing private and public cloud environments, including leading migrations or modernization efforts
Benefits
Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off
Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One
Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance with Optional Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs
Tuition Educational Assistance Programs
Opportunities for Career Growth
Company
O'Reilly Auto Parts
O’Reilly Auto parts is a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$500M2024-08-19Post Ipo Debt· $500M
1993-04-23IPO
Leadership Team
Brent Kirby
President
Greg Johnson
Retired
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