Director, Software Engineering

The Director, Software Engineering is responsible for the technical vision, leadership and cross-functional collaboration of the eCommerce platform. With this role, there are endless opportunities to drive impact on all consumer-facing web sites, web eCommerce, mobile eCommerce applications (iOS and Android react native apps), as well as integrations with eCommerce back-end engine, 3rd party delivery service providers, loyalty system, etc. Director, Software Engineering will report to the CTO and lead a team of engineering managers.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead team to develop solutions for digital ecommerce technologies, as well as systems that allow management of digital processes. The team will execute the build part of eCommerce, while automating release management, environment management, alert management.
• Manage department budgets, invoices and allocations, timelines, inclusive of alignment to appropriate business initiative/capability.
• Partner with product owners, UX/UI designers, and other stakeholders to define epics and user stories, establish priorities, and ensure alignment with product roadmap and tech stack.
• Provide architectural and technical guidance to the team, ensuring codebase health through best practices in mobile development and web.
• Partner on resource allocation, technical direction, timelines with Director-level product managers and senior business leaders across Product teams, Data Governance team, Infrastructure, Infosec, to align, design, and deliver solutions that address business problems.
• Collaborate and drive decisions regarding development tools and programming languages. Bring modern software engineering practices, exhibit industry-leading level of leadership in software engineering.
• Lead multiple software engineering teams across spectrum of technologies. Nurture and hire well, manage performance, provide coaching, mentorship, and career development for your staff.
• Partner with Security team to ensure processes in place for the security of enterprise and customer data.
• Drive root-cause analysis and remediation for system errors and issues.
• Partner with stakeholders at Yum! and other brands to lead teams and deliver game-changing initiatives.
• Responsible for reporting team’s performance against goals, risks, and driving contingency planning.
• Provide recommendations to senior management with the strategic analysis of new and emerging features /initiatives to determine customer impacts and financial viability (ROI).
• Strong vendor partnership management – especially with software engineering & development companies, implementation partners, and our cloud providers.

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or related Field. 
• 10+ years leading and managing Software Engineering, architecture, or software development teams.
• 5+ years software engineering experience.
• In depth knowledge of systems, agile software development.
• Proven experience in a leadership capacity within an engineering or IT organization.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams or individuals in highly critical capacities and situations.
• Excellent influencing, relationship management, communication, and organizational skills including distilling broad strategy into well-structured strategic materials.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree a plus.

Salary Range: $160,400 - $188,800 annually + bonus eligibility and stock-based compensation. This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors. 

In December 2018, Pizza Hut acquired QuikOrder, a leading online ordering software and service provider for the restaurant industry, in order to improve Pizza Hut's ability to deliver an easy and personalized online ordering experience and accelerate digital innovation across 6,000+ restaurants in the U.S.

Combined with Pizza Hut’s already existing powerhouse technology team, Pizza Hut Connect officially launched in August, 2019. This new entity is now home to all Pizza Hut U.S. technology talent and capability, spanning eCommerce, Restaurant Technology, Delivery Technology, Data & Analytics Technology. The formation of Pizza Hut Connect underscores the important role technology will continue to play in Pizza Hut’s future growth, as well as our intentional focus on investing in technology talent and capabilities.

The vision of Pizza Hut Connect is “to deliver the easiest experiences for customers, team members, and franchisees through rapid technology innovation.”