DevOps Manager at Walgreens (Deerfield, IL)

Job Summary
Join the team working on the largest initiative in the history of our company, Pharmacy Renewal. This initiative seeks to design and build the largest, most advanced pharmacy infrastructure in the world from the ground up. Empowered to operate as an innovation center, this initiative represents one of Walgreens most important programs at global, national and local levels. US, UK, Poland, Argentina and Italy based teams will be leveraging the most advanced and exciting technologies to build on Walgreens parent company, Walgreens Boots Alliance strategic vision to service the 13,100 plus pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retails stores.

This cutting edge opportunity lets you manage a team responsible for developing and implementing protocols that comply with established policies, procedures and standards of the specified area of IT. Effectively collaborates with other members of the team, customers and/or stakeholders to align work efforts, develop/execute tactical plans that enable successful business operations. Actively collaborates across IT and business areas within area of specified responsibility to ensure successful results of designated initiatives are achieved. Ensures accurate accounting of and appropriate deployment of resources. 

Outcomes managed have an impact on the specified area of responsibility. 

Job Responsibilities

• Manages the daily operational activities that develop and implement tactical plans for multiple components/processes for a specified area within IT. Develops protocols to support established standards. Oversees team(s) assigned to projects and may manage implementations. Ensures resources are accurately allocated in line with tactical plans and appropriately accounted for at all times.
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• Performs as subject matter advisor and may serve as point of escalation and become actively involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems highly complex in nature. Manages issues proactively, including timely resolution and the identification of remediation opportunities. Identifies and resolve systemic issues to prevent them from repeating.
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• Ensures delivery against agreed upon SLAs and overall service delivery of operational activities. Understands short and long-term goals and objectives and recommend technical solutions and services. Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
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• Develops and proposes options with pros/cons and risk, and works with stakeholders to finalize the best solution that meets business needs.
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• Establishes credibility with partners while managing expectations. Ensures frequent, continuous and effective communications with team members, within IT, and with stakeholders to set expectations and negotiate priorities appropriately, via both formal and informal channels / mechanisms.
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• May develop budget for functional area. Manages budget to plan. May be accountable for area budget and delivering against business goals/objectives.
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• Participates in and contributes to the development of technical/business approaches and/or the recommendation of current system enhancements.
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• Understand the underlying technologies and applications utilized within specified area of responsibility to direct how to design, develop, test, and implement priority technology requirements.
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• Shares information cross-functionally to improve workflow processes. Interacts with direct reports and peers in management / customers / vendors to share information and improve cross-departmental processes.
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• Stays abreast of industry leading best practices and brings them to the attention of the leadership team for innovative application. May develop partnerships (and relationships) with internal and external stakeholders to meet business needs.
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• Allocates available resources to meet operating objectives. Develops and mentors staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes; builds and maintains employee morale and motivation; ensures the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies; fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 5 years of experience in IT, Accounting, Finance, Consulting, Strategy and/or Analytics OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 8 years of experience in IT, Accounting, Finance, Consulting, Strategy and/or Analytics.
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• Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization.
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• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
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• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
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• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
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• At least 2 years of experience in indirect management of team members, including assisting in the development, training and assignment of work/projects to other team members.
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• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
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Preferred Qualifications

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Vast experience in Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) and Micro Services in an enterprise setting.

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A broad IT and Infrastructure background with experience of working in a senior IT Architecture role and will have recently worked in technical roles in large scale Cloud (Private and or Public) deployments (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS).

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History of Web / application servers Apache, NGINX, IIS, Tomcat, JBOSS, Node, PHP, HHVM, Go.

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Automated testing Selenium, Load Runner, Unified Functional Tester

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