Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Overview

Reports to: Director, Platform Engineering

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Senior Manager, Platform Engineering at Arc'teryx, you will be leading and managing multiple teams of Platform engineers in the design, development, maintenance and support of our platforms and systems. In this role, you will use your advanced technical skills and expertise in platform engineering to guide the teams and ensure that work is completed efficiently and meets our high standards.

You will also play a key role in the technology strategy across the platform systems that enable our exceptional e-commerce guest experience via web, mobile and POS systems. Additionally, you will be an integral part of the technology strategy for Arc'teryx digital systems, contributing your insights and expertise to guide the direction and ownership of our platforms. Overall, your technical leadership and mentorship will be crucial in driving the success of our digital properties at Arc’teryx.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

The Platform engineering team builds the infrastructure and domain platforms for Arc’teryx mobile apps, , customer service interfaces and our retail systems. We work with cross-functional agile squads to build and roll out new capabilities, improve performance, and build self-service tools for our developers to enable creating an amazing online experience for our guests. We do this through designing, building and supporting platforms and infrastructure to support our business needs.

Using Agile software development practices, we keep our standards high, delivering high quality and deploying frequently.

Department: Technology

Location: Vancouver, BC

As the Senior Manager, Platform Engineering at Arc'teryx, you will be leading and managing multiple teams of Platform engineers in the design, development, maintenance and support of our platforms and systems. In this role, you will use your advanced technical skills and expertise in platform engineering to guide the teams and ensure that work is completed efficiently and meets our high standards.

You will also play a key role in the technology strategy across the platform systems that enable our exceptional e-commerce guest experience via web, mobile and POS systems. Additionally, you will be an integral part of the technology strategy for Arc'teryx digital systems, contributing your insights and expertise to guide the direction and ownership of our platforms. Overall, your technical leadership and mentorship will be crucial in driving the success of our digital properties at Arc’teryx.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

The Platform engineering team builds the infrastructure and domain platforms for Arc’teryx mobile apps, , customer service interfaces and our retail systems. We work with cross-functional agile squads to build and roll out new capabilities, improve performance, and build self-service tools for our developers to enable creating an amazing online experience for our guests. We do this through designing, building and supporting platforms and infrastructure to support our business needs.

Using Agile software development practices, we keep our standards high, delivering high quality and deploying frequently.

• Core activities you would be doing: (see actual responsibilities below)

If you were in the Senior Manager, Platform Engineering role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Providing direction and coaching to the platform development teams in all phases of the software development life cycle
• Attracting, retaining, and developing top talent to build a world-class platform engineering team, developing career pathways for your team members and help them grow through coaching, mentoring, goal setting and ongoing assessment
• Leading and coaching a team composed of both people leaders and individual contributors, providing the appropriate guidance, support, and…