Manager, Corporate Systems Delivery

The JD Sports North America Corporate Systems team powers the expansion of JD's digital retail operations through building and delivering the foundational merchandising, supply chain, finance, and corporate capabilities behind the scenes that enable us to provide connected customer experiences and support our internal corporate operations.  We support and encourage everyone on our team to take an active role in driving innovation in technology behind the products and experiences we build and are looking for candidates with a clear bias-to-action that bring an experienced, solution-oriented perspective to our team.

The Manager, Corporate Delivery - CFS is responsible for managing and developing engineering teams responsible for our workstreams supporting finance and other corporate functions. This position combines managerial responsibilities with hands-on technical expertise. Working closely with partners in product management, business, and engineering, the Manager, Corporate Delivery - CFS works with the teams to plan, build, and release products and features that our customers interact with using our website and agent-assisted service applications. This leader will effectively exhibit JD Finish Line’s core values of Customer, People, Winning, Community, and Financial Responsibility in everything they do by performing the following main duties:

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Responsible for appropriate staffing, staff management, training, and performance management of both internal resources and contracted development resources.
• Leadership, teambuilding, and mentoring skills
• Help the teams achieve high performance through the implementation of best practices in Agile, continuous delivery, and test-driven development
• Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
• Work collaboratively with Product Managers and Scrum Masters to ensure high quality team performance/collaboration and to address and rectify opportunities for improvements
• Provide solution-driven guidance and support for teams regarding engineering approaches and best practices
• Work collaboratively with functional analysts, business partners, business analysts, product managers and developers to organize, plan and build technical solutions
•  Enforce standards for code reusability, code quality and other best practices in software design and engineering
• Drive process improvement and best practices across teams 
• Additional projects and duties as assigned

Required Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) or equivalent experience 
• 3-5+ years’ experience managing software development teams
• Prior technical / engineering experience is a plus

Required Computer and/or Technical Skills

• Intermediate experience with Microsoft Office 365,Sharepoint, Powerpoint and needed development tools
• Workday Finance and HCM Integration experience is a plus
• Atlassian suite and Jira software experience is a plus 
• In depth understanding of Agile values, principles, and the Scrum framework
• Understand fundamentals of iterative & incremental development
• Excels in tailoring written and verbal communications depending on the audience, from project team to executive-level stakeholders
• Experience in a retail environment is preferred

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit for more than 6 hours per shift
•  Use hands to finger, handle and feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Talk and/or hear
• Walk or move from one location to another
• Occasionally may need to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally
• Punctuality and regular attendance consistent with the company’s policies is required for the position.
• Average work week is 40-50 hours, which can vary depending on business need.
• The work environment for this position is a moderately noisy office setting.

The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary basis per company policy.

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This job description is not intended to cover all aspects, duties, and/or responsibilities required of employees.  Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary or permanent basis per company policy. ​The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice. 

EEO Statement:

The Finish Line, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to complying with all federal, state, and local EEO laws.  The Finish Line, Inc. prohibits discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on race or color, religion or creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, sex, pregnancy status, age, military status, disability, or any other characteristic or class protected by law.  The Finish Line, Inc. provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws, including for disabilities, pregnancy, and religious practices.

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