- External Job Description
- Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy, and retail leader serving millions of customers and patients every day, with a 170-year heritage of caring for communities. WBA Technology Center is designed to support innovation in healthcare technology with the agility to respond quickly to WBA’s operational needs through a 24/7 ‘follow the sun’ model. WBA Technology Center optimises pharmacy software platform operations by centrally managing selected digital pharmacy products.
- Our people are the reason for our success, and our focus is to scale and grow our Dublin office, simultaneously delivering work for Walgreens. We believe in hiring great people, and we want to ensure everyone has the best possible work experience every day. Together we strive to deliver 'More joyful lives through better health!'
- The DevOps Lead is responsible for ensuring the fully automated build/test/deploy system used to manage software development. He/She is a part of the engineering Leadership team and coordinates the DevOps team to assess and prioritize the organization and tooling needs for all aspects of our development lifecycle. He/She supports the DevOps Mgr in defining and executing the DevOps Roadmap as part of the Engineering Playbook.
- Overall Responsibilities
- Root Cause Analysis
- Cloud Architecture fundamentals;
- Configuration Mgm
- Project Management
- Agile Mindset
- Detailed Responsibilities
- Responsible for Project/Product:
- Ensure solution, design and troubleshooting documentation
- Coordinates DevOps team to implement, evolve and maintain Continuous Integration, Test and Deployment pipelines
- Contribute to the definition and execution of the DevOps Strategic Plan signed off by Engineering Leadership
- Informs and coordinates with the Architecture team to ensure the right non-functional scoping (e.g., Obsolescence, … )
- Responsible for Team & Organization:
- Coordinates DevOps team, e2e where applicable and fosters collaboration with other Engineering leaders and practices
- Collaborate with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools, systems and procedures, and data security;
- Responsible for application development and deployment processes to be done in the best possible way and ensures the right quality control are performed
- Operates with an automate-first mindset collaborating strictly with Architecture, Development and QE teams
- Has a leadership attitude and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions;
- Maintain and monitor the DevOps dashboards;
- Ensures the configuration management of the System and Application are kept consistent across all landscapes through all SDLC stages
- Responsible for Agile:
- Work closely with the Agile Delivery Engineer, Agile Delivery Manager and Lead/Product Architect to develop resources, methods and tools for delivering practice team services to clients
- Background and Skills
- Degree-level educated (a qualification in Project and Program Management would be desirable) with a solid background in IT and program management
- Good knowledge of software development lifecycle, lean agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, …) and IT roles
- Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience, preferably in a complex pharmacy & healthcare organization/business domain
- Risk management skills
- Knowledge about Agile techniques like User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing (Test Automation), Pairing, Agile Games
- JIRA/Confluence experience
- Ability to facilitate transparent communication and collaboration
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