Lead Software Engineer - Digital Recommendations

Lowes Home Improvement
Charlotte, NC
03 Dec 2024

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Lowe's Technology organization believes that in-person collaboration is highly effective and helps build relationships and strengthens our culture. As such, we are leveraging an Open Office approach in how we work, meaning our tech associates will leverage time in the office to focus on highly collaborative activities as well as some remote / work from home time for autonomous endeavors. Each role has different business-driven collaboration needs that will require in-office presence.

The Digital Recommendations team within the Lowe's eCommerce Discovery organization is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join them. This role will be responsible for driving the architecture, design and technical direction of recommendations portfolio by leveraging market leading AI/ML technologies to build a state of the art, scalable recommendations platform for Lowe's.

Job Summary:The primary purpose of this role is to provide consultation and technical direction on translating business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs. This includes facilitating the implementation and maintenance of complex business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment of released applications. This role serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of business and enterprise software solutions. In addition, this role personally develops and delivers code modules, stable application systems, and integrated enterprise software solutions within various computing environments.

Key Responsibilities:• Resolves complex problems spanning multiple applications to drive improvements across portfolios; leads projects with significant business implications, participates in planning and priority estimates, and advises Software Engineers; executes with limited guidance• Leads development of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions to ensure specifications are flexible, scalable, and maintainable and meet architectural standards• Educates others on current architectural standards and guidelines to drive efficiency when leading the design efforts of complex business and enterprise software solutions• Supports systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) for large, complex, cross-functional application initiatives by providing insight to testing teams in order to ensure the appropriate depth of test coverage• Mentors and advises others in all software development lifecycle phases by applying and sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls• Communicates changes in software architecture and coaches others to apply this understanding to software solutions; resolves escalated issues• Leads efforts to improve engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices• Solves complex cross-functional architecture/design and business problems; solutions are extensible; works to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc.• Mentors and advises others, sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls

Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field• 7 years of experience in software development or a related field• 6 years of experience in database technologies• 6 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)

Preferred Qualifications:• Experience in software development in retail eCommerce domain• Strong microservices architecture fundamentals and experience• 5 years experience with both Java and React-Redux and Nodejs based applications and architecture• 5 years of hands-on working in Machine and Deep learning field• experience working on cloud based application development, Google Cloud preferred.• Expert in in dataflow technologies such as Apache Spark and Beam• Excellent knowledge and familiarity working with Kubernetes and Docker• Familiar with Kafka , Pub-Sub and similar message queue technologies• Comfortable working in an Agile environment - Scrum or Kanban• Excellent knowledge and experience working with both Relational and No-SQL databases (Cassandra and Neo4j experience will be a bonus)• Master's degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field• 6 years of IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization• 6 years of experience working with defect or incident tracking software• 6 years of experience writing technical documentation in a software development environment• 4 years of experience working with an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework• 4 years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports• 6 years of experience working with source code control systems• Experience working with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools• 6 years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions In most cases Lowe's will not be able to provide sponsorship for roles located in the Tech Hub

About Lowe's:Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 20 million customers a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2020 sales of nearly $90 billion, Lowe's and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

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