Software Engineering Portfolio Manager - Houston TX

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Software Engineering Portfolio Manager - Houston, TX

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Houston

Texas

124991BR

Job Title:

Software Engineering Portfolio Manager - Houston, TX

No. of Positions:

1

Job Description:

What’s the role?

This role supports the goal of the Software Engineering Centre of Expertise, which is to ensure that the IT Engineering organization has what it needs to deliver credible, competitive, and affordable software at a cadence desired by the business. Software Engineering is a professional discipline that covers the entire application development lifecycle and applies to all types of software delivery, including grounds-up code development, integration efforts, and installation of commercial solutions.

This role will be responsible for managing the Software Engineering tools and services portfolio, which is a combination of oversight of a complex federated portfolio and direct management of core tool and services. This role is more technical than typical portfolio management and it requires a solid software engineering background to understand the complexities of the software engineering landscape during a very dynamic time. As any portfolio management role, it also requires good stakeholder management skills.

Besides this, the role will also be a core member of the COE, which is focused on building the skills and practices needed to deliver software professionally, efficiently and effectively. This includes providing tools and services, supporting delivery, development of skills to enable delivery, building a community, coaching the delivery teams on software engineering best practices, ensuring proper use of standards and best practices, and development of supplemental processes necessary for optimal effectiveness. Primary target audience is the Software Engineering department in IT Engineering. There is close collaboration with counterparts in Europe and India, as well as with other functional excellence groups throughout Shell.

Key components of this role include:

Managing the Software Engineering tools portfolio, including maintaining the roadmap for the standard toolset, identifying and filling gaps (together with Architecture), onboarding new tools, coordinating between the different sub-portfolios, and managing the step-out process in case of exceptions.

Being an active member of the COE via establishing an active community of practice in Software Engineering, helping define and embed metrics and assurance processes related to SE excellence, and driving continuous improvement in software engineering practices.

Ability to engage across all aspects of the software lifecycle with detailed-enough knowledge of the tools to provide working examples and training to delivery teams.

Auto req ID:

124991BR

Skillpool:

Information Technology

Country of Work Location:

United States

Employment Type:

Full Time

Company Description:

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible. We have expertise in exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals. As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business. Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

Disclaimer:

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Work Location:

Houston - Westhollow Technology Center

Requirements:

What we need from you

Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering or Computer Science.

Relevant Experience

Minimum of ten (10) years relevant work experience with at least five (5) years in Software Engineering (including business analysis, design, construction and testing), developing complex software.

Experience with portfolio management in large organizations, including coordination with Contracting & Procurement, Information Risk Management, Architecture and Operations.

Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps, GitHub, industry standard IDEs (e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio), automated testing tooling (e.g. FitNesse, Selenium WebDriver, BrowserStack), and static analysis tooling (e.g. SonarQube).

Experience with high-fidelity agile implementations.

Experience with different development paradigms (e.g. object oriented, functional) and languages. Proven software development skills.​

Job Knowledge

Understands and can champion proper use of Software Engineering best practices in requirements, design, construction, testing, and deployment.

Knows the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and is able to explain the role of Software Engineering in the IT processes.

Understands different delivery mechanisms (including grounds-up development and integrating purchased applications), and how that impacts software engineering requirements.

Understands traditional (waterfall) as well as agile life cycles such as Scrum. Understands DevOps concepts, and knows when to apply what.

Skills

Understands the importance of a professional software delivery mindset, and especially the importance of quality and minimization of unintentional rework in the full life cycle of a product.

Able to professionally operate in at least one agile and one traditional life cycle, applying the life cycle mindset and able to coach others on application of principles and practices of the life cycle.

Able to design, plan, and schedule short term assignments including own work and coordinating/overseeing initiatives involving people without direct reporting lines.

Has strong foundations and understands fundamental concepts such as models and methods, problem solving, abstraction, programming fundamentals, design patterns, data structures and algorithms, computer organization, databases and networks, parallel and distributed computing, and secure development.

Displays Inter-Personal Effectiveness: build effective and positive relationships that are open and respectful of personal and cultural differences, and work collaboratively with colleagues of different points of view. Ability to influence without formal authority.

Ability to work effectively and manage relationships with peers, in a virtual, geographically dispersed and cross cultural environment.

Able to help teams kickstarting software engineering improvement initiatives, including (but not limited to) driving acceptance test driven development, automated integration and deployment (CI/CD), real-time application monitoring, code quality scanning and optimization, etc.

Able to assess economic impact of design and/or implementation decisions.​

City, State (if applicable):

Houston, TX

Company info

Shell .
Website : https://www.shell.com