Tech Lead

Ulta Beauty • Bolingbrook, IL

185d • $160,014 - $161,014 • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related.
• Five (5) years in any occupation with software development experience.
• Five (5) years in any occupation with software development experience must include: Three (3) years of experience with digital product strategy, consulting, or delivery.
• Leading highly technical teams, leveraging their ability to architect software, implement product vision, and deliver code with an agile and iterative model.
• Leading engineers and developers as product delivery teams to build a high performing culture rooted in customer centricity while implementing proper coding standards, recommending languages, frameworks and SaaS platforms, and implementing automated testing.
• Championing continuous delivery and helping engineers improve their skills, including fostering strong relationships with product owners.
• Experience within the technical components of the domains/products/journeys; Java/JVM; Agile Development; Managing technical priorities within the Backlog; and Informing trade-offs to ensure the Product Owner has all the information needed to make product delivery decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Product Owner to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack.
• Design the overall technological architecture of the product with the help of the team.
• Guide project teams on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration and automated deployment.
• Mentor and coach the technical team, specifically with code reviews.
• Engage in coding to help the team to develop their solution and solve all problems at hand.
• Identify and remove technical impediments.
• Act as a thought partner with the Product Owner in story creation, acceptance criteria, and communicate tradeoffs effectively with designers.
• Provide the team a roadmap for implementing software engineering practices for higher code quality.
• Share responsibility with the Product Owner for building reusable and scalable components.
• Work alongside business stakeholders, visual designers, UX architects, QA analysts, and application architects in a collaborative environment to iteratively deliver solutions on time and in budget.
• Lead a team of employee and consultant developers to ensure successful delivery of our digital transformation project and operate in a highly dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Work closely with business teams to understand and implement strategic initiatives on time and on budget.
• Take a hands-on role delivering multiple projects and contributing to the future state architecture.

Benefits

• Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits.
• Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Health and Personal Care Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree