Senior Manager, Software Engineering en Lowe's

JOB DESCRIPTION: Position is based in Charlotte, NC, some teleworking may be permitted. Travel to Lowe’s offices may be required.

Partners with the product team to help inform the priorities within a set of products, applications, and/or services. Manages software/Infrastructure engineers who design, build and maintain solutions within a set of technology products and/or services; oversees the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions. Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers, third-party vendors, and senior management. Resolves escalated issues throughout the development, configuration, and modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions. Creates and/or leads the creation of SOPs, KPIs, and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications. Hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; monitors team/individual’s morale and engagement to maintain highly effective and collaborative environments. Controls project risks by analyzing and identifying trigger events, establishing response and contingency plans and recommending ways to mitigate future risks. Manages the completion of Systems Integration Testing (SIT) and responsible for ensuring that User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is completed successfully. Provides input for departmental budget and forecasting, and manages expenses associated with initiatives within scope of responsibility. Responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance, support and scalability of robust, reliable and secure business and enterprise software solutions. Partners with engineers and architects to ensure optimal technology solutions are built by the engineering team. Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers. Influences and establishes best in class engineering practices through solid design decisions and tools. Coordinates the estimation and execution of plans, schedules, and resource forecasts for the services or applications in his/her scope. Manages multiple services or applications and provides resources in support of the applications by leveraging partnerships with technology teams, vendors, and business leaders. Leads team through all technology solution development phases by ensuring team understands and adheres to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls. Provides leadership to the team by attracting and hiring talented individuals, setting goals and communicating clear expectations, providing timely and constructive feedback as well as meaningful developmental opportunities, managing performance, providing resources and support as needed, and sponsoring and leading team members through change.

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Job requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, CIS, Engineering or related field and 8 years of experience in any job title/occupation involving IT or a related field. *Employer will accept single degree or combination of degrees, diplomas and/or professional experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree.

Must have prior experience in: 

8 years of experience in: 
•    Extensive experience in database installation, migration, patching and upgrade; database design, creation and configuration, database sizing, capacity growth planning, performance monitoring, audit, Backup and Recovery, Responsible for performance tuning, support, analysis and resolution of database problems that occurs during the critical time processing.
7 years of experience in: 
•    Working within an ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) framework. 
 6 years of experience in: 
•    Implementing and managing all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); and 
•     Leading project or technical teams with or without formal direct report responsibility. 
5 years of experience in: 
•    Designing and implementing effective utilization solutions to deliver effective computer resource management, using open-source technologies, including Postgres, Casandra, MongoDB, Docker, Spark, Python, and Rundeck; 
•    Working with Agile methodological automated implementations; and 
•    Leading Software application design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of platforms for database as product services. 
4 years of experience in: 
•    Designing and implementing system and database related metrics and alerts across Postgres and NoSQL databases; 
•     Migrating data from legacy Oracle /db2 Database to open-source Database like Postgres/Casandra/MongoDB; and 
•    Designing and implementing effective utilization solutions to deliver effective compute resource management, using open-source technology, including Postgres, MongoDB, and other NoSQL Databases 
3 years of experience in: 
•    Building data validation frameworks between different types of databases with zero business loss during data migrations

REQ# 2415079

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.