About the Role
Join Petco, a leading pet retailer, and contribute to a technology strategy that enhances our commerce platform and integrated systems. This role involves defining vision, architecture, and stack, while leading cross-functional teams to address complex business issues and influence product development.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for long-range technology strategy planning for our commerce platform and integrated systems.
- Works with technical leaders to define and refine vision, architecture, and stack; leads efforts to make timely technical decisions.
- Manages policy development to address complex business issues and provides leadership to cross-functional teams.
- Partners with Product Development team to influence what is built for business consumption.
- Advocates for enterprise technology initiatives in the enterprise technology backlog structure.
- Identifies interdependencies and emerging trends across interrelated technology efforts and programs to continuously improve products and services.
- Partners with Program/Project and Tech SMEs to create realistic roadmaps and set expectations with customers; stays close to the product, guides the process to ensure accurate and timely delivery.
- Leverages engineering, problem solving and influencing skills to ensure process and risk management solutions are also technically sound.
- Coordinates outsourced engineering effort from teams with differing skill sets.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related fields, or equivalent work experience.
- 12+ years of IT and business industry work experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
- Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes.
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Skills
- Technology strategy planning
- Commerce platform management
- System integration
- Technical vision and architecture definition
- Stack definition
- Technical decision-making
- Policy development
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Product development influence
- Enterprise technology advocacy
- Roadmap creation
- Customer expectation management
- Engineering
- Problem-solving
- Influencing skills
- Process and risk management
- Outsourced engineering coordination
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 12+ years of IT and business industry work experience
- Minimal supervision with wide latitude for independent judgment
- Leads large, cross functional teams
Education Level
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related fields, or equivalent work experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $170,600.00 - $282,600.00 / year
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Financial benefits
- 401K
- Incentives
- PTO
About the Company
- We’re proud to be "where the pets go" to find everything they need to live their best lives for more than 60 years — from their favorite meals and toys, to trusted supplies and expert support from people who get it, because we live it.
- We believe in the universal truths of pet parenthood — the boundless boops, missing slippers, late night zoomies and everything in between.
- We are 29,000+ strong and together we nurture the pet-human bond in more than 1,500 Petco stores across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers.
- In 1999, we founded Petco Love. Together, we support thousands of local animal welfare groups nationwide and have helped find homes for approximately 7 million animals through in-store adoption events.
Equal Opportunity
- Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.
