Joseph Stephen

About Joseph Stephen

Technologist Product Leader Agile Champion Team Builder I am a passionate technologist with over a decade of amazing experiences building, designing, and shaping meaningful products and software solutions. These products and solutions have had a major impact on revenue growth, cost savings, and - most importantly - delivered an exceptional experience for hundreds of thousands of customers.Currently, I lead strategy, engineering, and product management, development, and delivery for a $3+ billion division at Best Buy. It is an incredible role in a high-growth category within an amazing industry-leading organization.I am at my best leading a software engineering organization, and I am passionate about building amazing teams and managing relationships. Mentoring and developing my current organization of more than 200 technology professionals is extremely rewarding. I also manage numerous vendor relationships with strategic partners of all sizes. It is energizing to work with talented leaders at other firms and benefit from their unique perspective and expertise.I am extremely proud of my role leading the transformation of a team of over 250 individuals to adopt Agile principles and mindset, dev ops engineering practices, and a culture that focuses on happiness and professional fulfillment. This team delivered 245% ROI with a payback period of less than a year, and we saw a 2X increase in productivity.The future excites me, as do the diverse perspectives of the amazing professionals that I encounter on my journey to create a world-class engineering organization.My specialties and interests include: Agile, scalable computing, enterprise architecture, organizational development, software engineering, DevOps, product development, and managing strategic partnerships.MY TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES→ Deliver capabilities through a loosely coupled, distributed micro services-based architecture → Agile and dev ops principles and practices maximize delivery speed and stakeholder satisfaction. → Highly aligned, autonomous team work – empower teams to delight and surprise customers→ Data driven organization – data first approach for better decision making and continuous improvementI encourage you to reach out to me to connect and share ideas!

Experience

1. Head of Engineering

   Best Buy

   Sep 2025 — Present

   Building next generation supply chain, order mangement and fulfillment

Education

• GlobalNxt University

  Post Graduate Certificate of Management Studies, Business Administration and Management, General

  2008 — 2010

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1995 — 1999

Skills

• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Program Management
• • Business Process Reengineering
• • Program and Product Management
• Vendor Management
• • Global Application Development
• • Managing Large Onshore/Offshore Delivery
• • Team Development
• • Accounts Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Enterprise Architecture
• • IT Outsourcing
• Management
• • Software Delivery Methodologies
• Capability
• Business Intelligence
• Sdlc
• Software Deployment
• Solution Architecture
• • Capability Roadmaps
• Service Delivery
• • Best Practices & Continuous Improvement
• • Strategy Development & Business Planning
• Product Management
• • IT Rationalization
• • Customer & Vendor Management
• Soa
• Product Rationalization
• • Enterprise Architectures