Overview
On Site
Full Time
Skills
Credit Cards
Microsoft Azure
Cloud Computing
Cosmos
Database
Modeling
IT Management
Writing
Research
Budget
Honesty
Regulatory Compliance
Security Policy
Team Leadership
Roadmaps
Sprint
Automated Testing
Mentorship
Collaboration
Product Design
DevOps
Software Development
DevSecOps
SAFE
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Communication
Facilitation
Negotiations
Conflict Resolution
Supervision
Attention To Detail
Partnership
HIPAA
Training
Leadership Development
Promotions
Gmail
People Management
Leadership
Management
FMLA
Privacy
Authorization
Employment Authorization
Job Details
As a member of the IT Management Team, you are responsible for managing, developing, and leading a team of employees. Your role includes leading the specific functional responsibilities of your team, which involves overseeing team performance and deliverables. However, your role as a leader within our organization requires more than the management of resources and day-to-day operations. As a steward of the company, you are charged with the development and execution of your team's strategic vision and plan and ensuring that your team's actions align with the larger goals of the company and the IT Division.
The IT Membership team is responsible for applications used for Costco Membership Accounts as well Co-Branded Credit Cards. The manager will lead the Software Engineers and Quality Engineers in development of our home grown membership application that is hosted in Azure cloud and runs on a Cosmos database as well applications used in our Membership Processing Center.
As the primary conduit between your employees and upper leadership, your role in communicating and modeling the values and guiding principles of our company culture is of vital importance. All members of IT Management should strive to consciously and consistently foster a culture of engagement, trust, and "open door" communication.
Job Duties/Essential Functions
INTEGRITY: When achieving benchmarks and goals, use methods/strategies that are consistent with the Code of Ethics and the Standard of Ethics for Managers and Supervisors. Always leads by example. Appropriately handles employee concerns and follows through to resolution.
MEMBER SERVICE: Provides and ensures staff provides an exceptional member experience.
ADMINISTRATION: Ensures proper department coverage (writing schedule and break aids if needed). Understands department budget, able to research and explain budget variances.
MANAGING PERFORMANCE: Coaches and mentors employees to provide support and guidance. Has regular open and honest conversations with employees to discuss work performance and career development. Identifies learning opportunities to strengthen employee knowledge, skill and ability.
COMMUNICATION: Regularly shares information with employees via meetings and one-on-one conversations. Successfully navigates difficult conversations with employees, members, and suppliers. Listens, expresses empathy and adapts to get points across. Addresses issues immediately to ensure a timely resolution and to avoid escalating the situation. Consistently demonstrates business knowledge during interactions with senior management.
SELF-MANAGEMENT: Demonstrates sound judgment, taking a partner when necessary. Ability to maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation or in intense, hectic situations.
INCLUSION: Encourages different approaches and ideas to work and to accomplish goals. Seeks employee input. Takes the time to get to know or reach out to candidates who show potential that may not come forward on their own.
COMPLIANCE AND SAFETY: Takes measures to ensure employee and member information is kept confidential and adheres to IS security policy.
Team Leadership & Support: Provide daily guidance, remove blockers, and ensure Software Engineers and Quality Engineers have what they need to succeed including clear priorities, resources and support.
Planning & Execution Oversight: Collaborate with Product Managers to align on roadmaps, manage sprint planning, track progress and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.
Technical Guidance & Code Quality: While not always hands-on, review architecture decisions, promote best engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, automation) and uphold coding and quality standards.
People Management: Conduct 1:1s, provide timely feedback, mentor team members, support career growth, and maintain a healthy team culture.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Coordinate with product, design, DevOps, and other stakeholders to align on goals, resolve dependencies and maintain smooth communication channels.
This is a full-time management/leadership position (45 hours per week).
Regular and reliable workplace attendance at your assigned location.
Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery.
Computer, phone, printer, copier, fax
Non-Essential Functions
Assists in other areas of the department as necessary.
Assists in other areas of the company as necessary.
Same as essential functions
Experience, Skills, Education & Licenses/Certifications
Required:
Proven experience Managing a Software Development team and/or experience as a Software Engineer/ Quality Engineer
Proven experience with DevSecOps/Scaled Agile Framework.
Understanding of the CI/CD pipeline.
Minimum of 5 years IT experience.
Demonstrated poise and creativity while working with leadership, engineers and SMEs in different domain spaces to come to a common solution.
Excellent leadership skills and experience in driving teams to determine resolution paths/solutions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills (facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution), with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to work effectively; independent of assistance or supervision.
Ability to work under pressure in a highly team focused environment.
Innovative, creative, and extremely responsive with a strong sense of urgency.
Must be self-motivated, responsible, conscientious, and detail-oriented.
Must have proven ability to set and follow priorities and timeline.
Must have the ability to build lasting trusted partnerships across various functional areas and technical disciplines.
HIPAA Training and Supervisors Orientation (within 30 days of hire); Leadership Development 101 (within one year); Costco Pay Policies (within 90 days of promotion).
Recommended:
Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.
Successful internal candidates will have spent one year or more on their current team.
Successful internal individual contributor candidates will have been marked as "YES" to "ready/qualified to manage team(s) in Costco IT" on the Manager Readiness Survey by a member of their leadership within the last 12 months.
Other Conditions
Management will review the Job Analysis for this position prior to a job offer.
Required Documents
Cover Letter
Resume
Last two performance reviews
Attendance records for current year (Do not include absences covered by paid sick/personal time,
FMLA or other protected absences.)
California applicants, please click here to review the Costco Applicant Privacy Notice.
If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.
The IT Membership team is responsible for applications used for Costco Membership Accounts as well Co-Branded Credit Cards. The manager will lead the Software Engineers and Quality Engineers in development of our home grown membership application that is hosted in Azure cloud and runs on a Cosmos database as well applications used in our Membership Processing Center.
As the primary conduit between your employees and upper leadership, your role in communicating and modeling the values and guiding principles of our company culture is of vital importance. All members of IT Management should strive to consciously and consistently foster a culture of engagement, trust, and "open door" communication.
Job Duties/Essential Functions
INTEGRITY: When achieving benchmarks and goals, use methods/strategies that are consistent with the Code of Ethics and the Standard of Ethics for Managers and Supervisors. Always leads by example. Appropriately handles employee concerns and follows through to resolution.
MEMBER SERVICE: Provides and ensures staff provides an exceptional member experience.
ADMINISTRATION: Ensures proper department coverage (writing schedule and break aids if needed). Understands department budget, able to research and explain budget variances.
MANAGING PERFORMANCE: Coaches and mentors employees to provide support and guidance. Has regular open and honest conversations with employees to discuss work performance and career development. Identifies learning opportunities to strengthen employee knowledge, skill and ability.
COMMUNICATION: Regularly shares information with employees via meetings and one-on-one conversations. Successfully navigates difficult conversations with employees, members, and suppliers. Listens, expresses empathy and adapts to get points across. Addresses issues immediately to ensure a timely resolution and to avoid escalating the situation. Consistently demonstrates business knowledge during interactions with senior management.
SELF-MANAGEMENT: Demonstrates sound judgment, taking a partner when necessary. Ability to maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation or in intense, hectic situations.
INCLUSION: Encourages different approaches and ideas to work and to accomplish goals. Seeks employee input. Takes the time to get to know or reach out to candidates who show potential that may not come forward on their own.
COMPLIANCE AND SAFETY: Takes measures to ensure employee and member information is kept confidential and adheres to IS security policy.
Team Leadership & Support: Provide daily guidance, remove blockers, and ensure Software Engineers and Quality Engineers have what they need to succeed including clear priorities, resources and support.
Planning & Execution Oversight: Collaborate with Product Managers to align on roadmaps, manage sprint planning, track progress and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.
Technical Guidance & Code Quality: While not always hands-on, review architecture decisions, promote best engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, automation) and uphold coding and quality standards.
People Management: Conduct 1:1s, provide timely feedback, mentor team members, support career growth, and maintain a healthy team culture.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Coordinate with product, design, DevOps, and other stakeholders to align on goals, resolve dependencies and maintain smooth communication channels.
This is a full-time management/leadership position (45 hours per week).
Regular and reliable workplace attendance at your assigned location.
Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery.
Computer, phone, printer, copier, fax
Non-Essential Functions
Assists in other areas of the department as necessary.
Assists in other areas of the company as necessary.
Same as essential functions
Experience, Skills, Education & Licenses/Certifications
Required:
Proven experience Managing a Software Development team and/or experience as a Software Engineer/ Quality Engineer
Proven experience with DevSecOps/Scaled Agile Framework.
Understanding of the CI/CD pipeline.
Minimum of 5 years IT experience.
Demonstrated poise and creativity while working with leadership, engineers and SMEs in different domain spaces to come to a common solution.
Excellent leadership skills and experience in driving teams to determine resolution paths/solutions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills (facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution), with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to work effectively; independent of assistance or supervision.
Ability to work under pressure in a highly team focused environment.
Innovative, creative, and extremely responsive with a strong sense of urgency.
Must be self-motivated, responsible, conscientious, and detail-oriented.
Must have proven ability to set and follow priorities and timeline.
Must have the ability to build lasting trusted partnerships across various functional areas and technical disciplines.
HIPAA Training and Supervisors Orientation (within 30 days of hire); Leadership Development 101 (within one year); Costco Pay Policies (within 90 days of promotion).
Recommended:
Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.
Successful internal candidates will have spent one year or more on their current team.
Successful internal individual contributor candidates will have been marked as "YES" to "ready/qualified to manage team(s) in Costco IT" on the Manager Readiness Survey by a member of their leadership within the last 12 months.
Other Conditions
Management will review the Job Analysis for this position prior to a job offer.
Required Documents
Cover Letter
Resume
Last two performance reviews
Attendance records for current year (Do not include absences covered by paid sick/personal time,
FMLA or other protected absences.)
California applicants, please click here to review the Costco Applicant Privacy Notice.
If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.
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