Role Overview

At Western Midstream we are looking for an experienced staff to provide leadership, vision, and direction for a new software engineering organization. This position will be responsible for recruiting, developing, and retaining talent, as well as ensuring the software engineering staff has the skills and capabilities to meet business needs. This role will also oversee the implementation of software engineering initiatives and is responsible for championing best practices and ensuring initiatives achieve business outcomes.

Leadership And Strategy Responsibilities

Lead the software engineering organization to successful delivery of business outcomes.
Manage the software engineering budget, with ongoing focus on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures.
Build strong working relationships with business leaders to ensure software engineering teams meet expectations and contribute to achievement of business goals.
Collaborate with IT and business leaders to develop short- and long-term strategic plans.
Support and facilitate innovative and experimental software development work to test new ideas, within bounded cost and time frames.
Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the software engineering organization.
Work with product management leadership to design, manage, and/or execute product roadmaps.

Talent Management Responsibilities

Develop workforce strategy to meet the organization’s current and future software engineering needs through developing, hiring, and/or sourcing talent.
Manage resource allocation across teams to maximize business impact of resources and ensure each team has the skills and capabilities needed to achieve its objectives.
Manage software engineering talent, playing a key role in performance management, role and competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Partner with Human Resources to create learning and development opportunities aligned to the organization’s skill and capability needs, and to provide rewarding career paths for software engineering staff.
Recruit and hire talent to address new needs and skill gaps.
Facilitate collaboration and partnership across software engineering teams and stakeholders.
Build a culture that supports learning, collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness.
Manage employee engagement and promote a compelling employee value proposition to retain software engineering staff.

Oversight Responsibilities For Software Engineering Activities

Champion best practices and modern software development methods and tools.
Lead software engineering teams and other stakeholders to set goals for improving code quality, maintainability, security, and scalability. Monitor progress against these goals.
Implement and manage software development status reporting, metrics, and benchmarks.
Manage collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations to ensure software performs well in production and meets SLAs.
Work with the Chief Information Security Officer to ensure software is effectively secured and that risks are mitigated.
Oversee management of relationships with consultants, vendors, and contractors and support negotiation of statements of work and business terms with suppliers.
In collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations leaders, oversee DevOps processes and practices, including automating the handoff of code releases from development to operations.

Skills And Experience

Demonstrated leadership skills and experience.
Strong talent management skills including talent development, coaching, mentoring, and team motivation.
Ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships at all levels of the organization.
Strong business acumen and ability to understand and drive business objectives.
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
Strong organizational skills, including an ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources.
Understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.
Understanding of relevant tools and platforms (e.g. cloud platforms, web technologies, client-server technologies, continuous integration and deployment), with an eagerness to learn about new and unfamiliar technologies.
Adaptability and ability to manage rapid change in business needs, processes, or technologies.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent applied experience.
8-10+ years of experience in software engineering.
5+ years of experience in managing talent.
Experience managing a team of at least 5 - 8 employees.
Background in Oil & Gas, technical or engineering industrypreferred

Relocation:

This position is not eligible for relocation.

Travel Requirements

Minimum travel of 5% will be required.

Work Schedule

This position will work 9 hours Monday – Thursday and 4 hours on Friday. The position will rotate weekly between working from home and the office.

Western Midstream does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.

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