Lead Developer, Salon System Operations- Ulta Beauty
Company: Ulta Beauty
Location: Bolingbrook
Posted on: May 9, 2022
Job Description:
OVERVIEW
Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual
learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging
technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our
tech team is critical to our scalability-and is recognized that
way. We've been defined as a "mature start-up." A place where
interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration
is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring
agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for
better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.
We're engineering for the future of retail, and it's
no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and
ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who
will press you daily for your very best, you'll find that virtually
nothing's impossible at Ulta Beauty.
OUR STORY:
Ulta Beauty is the largest specialty beauty retailer in the United
States and the place for the true beauty enthusiast who gets
butterflies as she shops for beauty and experiments throughout our
store. We are the only one to provide our guests prestige, mass and
salon products and services under one roof - All Things Beauty, All
in One Place . We put our guests at the center of all we do,
committing to offer her unrivaled ways to be beautiful in an
environment that provides the thrill of exploration and delight of
discovery.
THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE:
The Lead Developer is responsible for supporting, planning and
coordinating functional and technical activities related to Salon
Systems in a highly dynamic and fast paced environment. They work
alongside talented Technical Leads, Architects, Software Engineers,
and Quality Engineers in our highly collaborative environment to
understand business needs, translate them into functional/technical
requirements and deliver high quality solutions on time and on
budget. This position plays a key role in establishing, executing
and supporting business critical systems and integrations in the
Salon systems landscape.
YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH ALL THIS BY:
- Application Support - Liaises as the routine contact point,
receiving and handling requests for support. Carries out a broad
range of service requests for support by providing information to
fulfill requests or enable resolution. Assists in the investigation
and resolution of issues relating to guest-facing applications.
Assists with specified procedures.
- Requirements Definition & Management - Uses established
techniques as directed to identify current problems and elicit,
specify and document business functional, data and non-functional
requirements.
- Programming/Software Development - Contributes to the designs,
development, testing, and documentation of complex programs from
agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed
standards and tools. Assesses own work and leads reviews of
colleagues' work. Mentors less experienced colleagues as
required.
- Systems Integration - Assists in the software builds from
software source code. Performs tests as defined in an integration
test specification, records the details of any failures, and
carries out fault diagnosis relating to simple failures, reporting
the results of the diagnosis in a clear and concise manner.
- Release Deployment - Uses the tools and techniques for specific
areas of release and deployment activities. Administers the
recording of activities, logging of results and documents technical
activity undertaken.
- Problem Management - Investigates problems in systems,
processes and services. Assists with the implementation of agreed
remedies and preventative measures.
- Incident Management: Undertakes the identification,
registration and categorization of incidents. Gathers information
to enable incident resolution and promptly escalates incidents as
appropriate.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide functional and though leadership to your team and
business stakeholders
- Maintain strong understanding of business process, goals and
drivers
- Collaborate closely with product management and development
teams to identify, groom and prioritize value-driven features and
enhancements
- Represent Salon Systems Ops in routine ITSM and PMO process
meetings
- Manage team support coverage including on-call rotation
- Act as escalation point for all incidents, events and requests
for Salon Systems
- Provide regular operations reports to stakeholders on
incidents, trends, and status of open items
- Partner with architecture/infrastructure teams to continuously
improve and scale application stack
- Drive development and enhancement of and process improvements
and automations
- Facilitate training of onshore/offshore team members
- Monitor and optimize performance of production systems
- Ensure all inbound and outbound data processes complete
successfully
- Prepare for and manage holiday readiness activities for
relevant Marketing applications
- Ensure technical and procedural documentation exists for all
systems and processesESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or
applicable work experience
- 5+ years of experience in object-oriented coding and
methodologies
- 5+ years of experience with PostgreSQL or relational database;
able to write complex, high performing SQL queries
- Experience with Linux operating systems and Dockerized Linux
environments
- Experience with development languages including Javascript
(React, Node.js), Python and CSS
- Experience with writing, testing and troubleshooting APIs.
- Experience with Development and CI/CD components such as JIRA,
Git, Jenkins and Kubernetes
- Experience developing, maintaining and supporting applications
on Google Cloud
- Experience using infrastructure and application performance
monitoring tools such as DynaTrace to improve application
performance.
- Familiar with data retention and compliance concepts
- Experience with Tidal Enterprise Scheduler or Cloud Composer is
a plus
- Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Excellent communication skills; feels comfortable working with
non-technical business partners
- Strong analysis/troubleshooting skills
- Must be creative, organized, detail oriented, and able to
assimilate information quickly
- Proactive and able to catch issues before failures
- Possess a strong work ethic; takes pride in delivering a
quality product
- Work with production support and project consultants in an
onshore / offshore model
- Support off-hours production issues and code deployments as
needed
- Minimal travel required (training/conferences)ABOUT
At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful.
Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the
premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care
products, hair care products and salon services. We bring
possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every
day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from
approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands
across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty's own
private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in
every store featuring-hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including
those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal
histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any
applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles'
Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair
Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act. Associated
topics: colorist, day spa, facial threader, hollow, makeup, makeup
artist, manicurista, medical, skin, spa
Keywords: Ulta Beauty, Bolingbrook , Lead Developer, Salon System Operations- Ulta Beauty, Other , Bolingbrook, Illinois
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