Software Engineer Senior Manager
Description:
• With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
• Position Purpose: As a Software Engineer Sr. Manager, you will be given a chance to contribute to the products we create, help grow the next generation of engineering talent, and help shape the technology strategy of the enterprise.
• In addition, you will be given the chance to work with our most strategic vendors to ensure that 3rd party tools and applications are readily available to all product teams that are interested in using them.
• The Sr. Manager must exhibit the ability to lead managers and their teams and drive change management and process improvement.
• Key Responsibilities:
• 20% Strategy & Planning: Works and negotiates with partners on the staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams.
• Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner.
• Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that aligned to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives.
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise.
• Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams.
• 20% Delivery & Execution: Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met.
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases.
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms.
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively.
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment.
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise.
• Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics.
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office.
• 15% Support & Enablement: Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams.
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams. Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations.
• Provides application support for software running in production. Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team.
• 45% People: Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers.
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team.
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback.
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests.
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices. Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams.
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice).
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems.
• Direct Manager/Direct Reports: Typically reports to the Technology Director, Sr. Director or Vice President.
• Travel Requirements: Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
• Physical Requirements: Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Working Conditions: Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Requirements:
• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• 6-8 years of relevant work experience
• Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
• Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
• Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
• Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
• Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
• Proficient managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Proficient balancing workloads across teams
• Experience managing vendor relationships
• Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
• Progressive Leadership Experience
• Multiple years of management experience, typically with responsibility for leading leaders (i.e., managing managers or senior teams)
• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional teams and delivering results at scale
• Domain-Specific Expertise
• Usually requires hands-on experience in eCommerce/Retail and experience successfully executing strategic initiatives
• Technical or analytical expertise (e.g., proficiency in GCP, project management, digital, etc..)
• Track Record of Results
• Proven ability to achieve or exceed targets, lead teams to outperform, and manage organizational change
• Evidence of delivering measurable business, operational, or customer value
Benefits:
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• With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
• Position Purpose: As a Software Engineer Sr. Manager, you will be given a chance to contribute to the products we create, help grow the next generation of engineering talent, and help shape the technology strategy of the enterprise.
• In addition, you will be given the chance to work with our most strategic vendors to ensure that 3rd party tools and applications are readily available to all product teams that are interested in using them.
• The Sr. Manager must exhibit the ability to lead managers and their teams and drive change management and process improvement.
• Key Responsibilities:
• 20% Strategy & Planning: Works and negotiates with partners on the staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams.
• Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner.
• Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that aligned to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives.
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise.
• Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams.
• 20% Delivery & Execution: Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met.
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases.
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms.
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively.
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment.
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise.
• Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics.
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office.
• 15% Support & Enablement: Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams.
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams. Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations.
• Provides application support for software running in production. Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team.
• 45% People: Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers.
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team.
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback.
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests.
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices. Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams.
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice).
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems.
• Direct Manager/Direct Reports: Typically reports to the Technology Director, Sr. Director or Vice President.
• Travel Requirements: Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
• Physical Requirements: Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Working Conditions: Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Requirements:
• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• 6-8 years of relevant work experience
• Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
• Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
• Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
• Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
• Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
• Proficient managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Proficient balancing workloads across teams
• Experience managing vendor relationships
• Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
• Progressive Leadership Experience
• Multiple years of management experience, typically with responsibility for leading leaders (i.e., managing managers or senior teams)
• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional teams and delivering results at scale
• Domain-Specific Expertise
• Usually requires hands-on experience in eCommerce/Retail and experience successfully executing strategic initiatives
• Technical or analytical expertise (e.g., proficiency in GCP, project management, digital, etc..)
• Track Record of Results
• Proven ability to achieve or exceed targets, lead teams to outperform, and manage organizational change
• Evidence of delivering measurable business, operational, or customer value
Benefits:
Apply Now
Apply Now