The Home Depot
Software Engineer Senior Principal - AI (Remote)
STORE SUPPORT CENTER, ATLANTA - 9090 · Principal
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About the role
- Position Purpose: The Software Engineer Sr.
- Principals will help accelerate delivery speed and quality through technical expertise, technical leadership, and by communicating best practices within their assigned IT portfolios.
- They will be a key contact point across a large portfolio for sharing and engaging with principal software engineers to foster learning and adoption of new technologies.
Responsibilities
- 50% Delivery and Execution - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing
- Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio
- Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption
- Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
- Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent
- Drives thought leadership and innovation within a given portfolio
- 50% Delivery and Execution - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing; Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio; Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption; Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
- 25% Support and Enablement - Point of escalation for high-priority issues and outages as they arise; Fields questions from project, product, and support teams; Helps solve technology disputes across local teams; Works with vendors to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products; Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technology with local teams
- Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing; Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio; Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption; Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
- 25% Support and Enablement
Requirements
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT
- Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry
- Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
- 7 years of relevant work experience
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent in a field of study related to the job
Nice to have
- 7-9 years of relevant work experience
- One of the fields of expertise should include a programming language
- Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
- Mastery in assigned domains
- Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with specific domains
- 5 years previous leadership experience
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
- Minimum Years of Work Experience:
Compensation
- Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback
- The pay range for this position is between $170,000.00 - $280,000.00
Benefits
- offered include health care benefits, 401K, ESPP, paid time off, and success sharing bonus.
- For a full list of the various benefits The Home Depot offers, visit https://careers.homedepot.com/our-benefits.
- Drives Vision and Purpose
- Nimble Learning
Company info
- They will interface with our 3rd party vendors to ensure THD's technical needs are met and that we are driving interoperability within our existing technology landscape.
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