Digital Technical Lead

Company: Christy Sports
Location: Lakewood
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

About Christy Sports:Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, Christy Sports is one of the largest winter sports specialty retailers in the nation with more than 60 locations in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Montana and Washington. We are a family of multiple specialty retail brands, all dedicated to delivering an outstanding guest experience in our stores, online, over the phone and through all of our rental and delivery.About the role:Join Christy Sports as we digitally transform our business to provide the best outdoor customer service & experience in the Rockies and beyond. Take charge of the technical aspects of Christy Sports Salesforce Commerce Cloud application stack as we differentiate ourselves across retail (omni), rental & service-oriented consumer journeys. Set and evolve our development process, help hold our development and technology partners accountable, educate our internal team and be a positive advocate for change in line with our overall digital transformation. In addition, youll be asked to drive our development architecture and integrations and be the go-to person for our builds. This is your chance to use your experience to help us do it well and do it right while building the team alongside you. This opportunity is best suited to someone who has been around SFCC/Demandware for a few years, has seen what good looks like - and knows how to get a committed business to that same goal. While speed, agility and innovative thinking are critical attributes, ultimately success will be measured by delivering timely results, managing expectations, being innovative and minimizing risky outcomes. -What youll do:

• Lead technical and architectural decision making and documentation related to the implementation and ongoing optimization of our Salesforce Commerce Cloud technology stack. Be our SFCC SME.
• Design, develop, unit test and mange SFCC code, configurations and integrations.
• Define and manage our Digital SDLC, own all source code management and release process responsibilities while we further build out our team. Over time, help manage the evolution of our organization such that development and release management are separated duties.
• Support our effort to execute, evolve and eventually automate QA.
• Work cross-functionally with IT on all legacy system integration points and in support of our Mulesoft environment.
• Track and optimize code, designs and related content management processes for site performance, SEO and WCAG AA compliance.
• Review all 3rd party code prior to integration of our core application.
• Guide the organization to best practices.
• Partner XF to build the team and develop our internal competencies.Who you are:
  • Minimum of 3 years with the SFCC platform. Previous work experience with SFRA required (not just pipelines).
  • Expert in scripting and web-development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, etc.
  • -Strong understanding of website tagging, analytics, data capture and the complexities introduced via the evolution of privacy rights as it relates to browser and OS interactions.
  • Competent in writing requirements, communicating timelines, dependencies, risks and barriers with business leadership
  • History of success training and developing junior web developers.
  • High degree of acumen with web-services, XML data objects, batch and real-time integrations.
  • Past experience with WCAG AA compliance efforts, technical SEO and consumer/data privacy (such as CCPA)
  • While not a project manager, comfortable with owning tasks, timelines, conflict and deliverables.
  • Understand the nature of a dynamic, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and be comfortable with ambiguity during times of transition.
  • Appropriate degree, education and training preferred.
  • Comfort with ambiguity.
  • Seeking to be a valuable and integral part of a commercially focused, consumer centric, service-oriented business fueled by the stoke of the outdoor industry and not simply being a billable resources going from project to project or client to client.
  • Passion for snow.The Perks and Benefits:
    • Free ski pass
    • Daily ski breaks dependent upon location
    • Incentive/Commission available
    • Employee Discounts (ski, retail, outdoor industry and much more!!)
    • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match when eligibility requirements met
    • Sick Pay based on hours workedBudgeted range starts at: $140,000 annually. -Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience.**Bonus eligible based upon company performance indicatorsEqual Opportunity Employer:
      • Christy Sports is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. -

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