Innovate in Bengaluru
This position is based at our on-site office in Bengaluru. Lowe's offers an ultramodern work environment, complete with cutting-edge technology, collaborative workspaces, an on-site gym and clinic, and other perks to enhance your work experience.
About Lowe’s
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Bengaluru, Lowe’s India develops innovative technology products and solutions and delivers business capabilities to provide the best omnichannel experience for Lowe’s customers. Lowe’s India employs over 4,200 associates across technology, analytics, merchandising, supply chain, marketing, finance and accounting, product management and shared services. Lowe’s India actively supports the communities it serves through programs focused on skill-building, sustainability and safe homes. For more information, visit, www.lowes.co.in.
About the Team
Enterprise Vendor and Enterprise Item are core Lowe’s platform that drives the entire omnichannel retail vendor master data, catalog and assortment management. Spread across US and India, the teams in this area manage the vendor and Item lifecycle and has been on a journey to modernize and to simplify this entire lifecycle for all of Lowe’s vendors, merchants and other enterprise services. In the next 2 years the team will own >70% reduction in cycle time for vendor and item onboarding, improving quality and contributing to multiple topline initiatives within the Lowe’s ecosystem.
Job Summary:
As the Director of Engineering, you will play a critical leadership role in overseeing the development, execution, and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Item and Enterprise Vendor teams’ engineering strategies and technical initiatives. You will lead a diverse and highly skilled team of engineers, collaborating closely with your peer engineering and product leaders as well as other leaders across the organization to drive innovation, improve systems, and deliver exceptional products and solutions that align with our strategic business objectives.
In this role, you will balance technical leadership with strong people management, leveraging your expertise in engineering, architecture, and scalable systems to deliver world-class solutions that meet the evolving needs of the business. Your ability to foster a culture of innovation, excellence, and high performance will be paramount in shaping the success of our global engineering operations
Core Responsibilities:
- Driving the right organizational structure within your teams to deliver on core goals for the organization with greatly quality and efficiency
- Drive strong engineering practices to drive efficiency in the organization and the development process
- Drive the long-term engineering vision, design and architecture working closely in partnership with your product and engineering peers
- Partners with the product team to establish the priorities across an entire portfolio of product groups.
- Manages software engineering teams that design, build, and maintain solutions across multiple technology products; ensures the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions.
- Builds and maintains partnerships with all functions to ensure technology team members understand business needs, functional specifications, and user journeys.
- Provides insight and guidance and resolves cross-functional issues that are escalated throughout the application development, testing, implementation, and support lifecycle across an entire portfolio of product groups.
- Ensures the creation of standard operating procedures, objectives and key results, and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications within a product group.
- Ensures mechanisms are in place that allows teams to resolve production issues within defined standard level agreements.
- Monitors testing activities from a high level, ensuring that all testing efforts align to the team's testing strategy; meets with testing teams when necessary to review the progress of testing efforts.
- Responsible for departmental budget and forecasting decisions and budget allocation; ensures technical solutions are delivered and maintained in a cost-effective manner.
- Partners with cross-functional leaders to ensure technology solutions built by the engineering team align to overall architectural and business standards.
- 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.
- Sets goal, strategies, and budgets and oversees the deployment of large/enterprise-scale initiatives and encourages a data-driven culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of applications.
- Manages a portfolio of services or applications and provides resources in support of the applications by leveraging partnerships with technology teams, vendors, and business leaders.
- Leads teams through all technology solution development phases by ensuring teams understand and adhere to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls; ensures team members are trained in software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, models, and processes.
- Leads a team in support of achieving the company’s mission. Manages performance and fosters an inclusive environment to help associates achieve their potential.
Years of Experience:
- 10 years of IT experience in software engineering or related field
- 10 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
- 5 years of experience leading global technology teams with direct report responsibility
- 3 years of experience working closely with senior leadership
- 3 years of experience managing operational and/or financial budgets, including the managing of third-party vendors and/or software providers
Required Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in business administration, computer science, computer information systems (CIS), engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)
Primary Skills (must have)
- Proficiency in technologies, architecture and design that enable a complex transactional platform with high throughput, multiple clients and multiple users across API and UI
- Skill in talent segregation and career management of a large team (30+ engineers)
- Excellent communication skills to manage messaging across peers and leaders
Secondary Skills (desired)
- Strategic thinking which combines a deep understanding of the domain and value delivery to make critical choices
- Expertise in retail domain with a curiosity to learn more about technology and business
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.
