Engineer Lead Platform Security Engineering

This position contributes to Starbucks success by planning and execution of activities of a Platform Engineering Team with a strong focus on platform and application security. As engineer lead in application development and engineering, you are responsible for leading a team of software developers through planning, delivery, and operations of solutions. You are also responsible for the evolvement, delivery and support the technology strategy and roadmaps for new and existing applications and platforms. This role requires hands-on technical, domain proficiency, platform depth, and leadership. Models and acts in accordance with Starbucks guiding principles.

Summary of Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

Leadership - Setting goals for the work group, developing organizational capability, and modeling how we work together:

• Leads an engineering team with Application Security focus to comply with Starbucks Global Cyber Security requirements.
  • Provide Security Architecture Design Pattern
  • Provide Security Engineering Services for common platform components
  • Provide consultative services for security issues within the application team.
  • Interface with Starbucks Cloud and Global Cyber Security teams representing our application platforms.
• Leads the technical team through the solution design process. Leverages and develops talent on the team through all phases of project efforts, including requirements gathering, assessment and backlog refinement. Shapes and guides systems approach, manages project initiation, technical design and development efforts.
• Ensures platform has appropriate design patterns and coding standards in place. Directs team toward secure, durable, scalable, flexible, and accessible solutions that proactively mitigate against production support issues.
• Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure the immediate team of direct reports promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results.
• Accountable for delivery of development and operational efforts of the team by ensuring efforts are staffed, structured, budgeted and prioritized appropriately.

Platform Stewardship - Championing platform efforts to promote platform evolvement and stability to support business needs.

• Partners with cross functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, QA and key Development teams, to strengthen and elevate the platform from a technology perspective. Successfully sees designs and solutions through enterprise processes and governance to ensure compliant, secure and supportable solutions.

Partner Development and Team Building - Providing partners with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities, and building effective teams:

• Provides partners with coaching, feedback and developmental opportunities and builds effective teams.
• Ensures partners adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements.

Production Support for application and platform components

• Defines and maintains processes, procedures, and expectations for team's production support responsibilities.
• Ensures platform application and platform support documentation is in place.
• Leads team through high severity security related operational incidents.