Genuine Parts Company

Genuine Parts Company

Principal Engineer - Store Systems

USA GPC Windy Hill · Principal

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About the role

  • Company Background: Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a leading global service provider of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added solutions.
  • We keep the world moving with a vast network of over 10,700 locations spanning 17 countries supported by more than 63,000 teammates.
  • This is a technical leadership role responsible for defining and guiding the architecture, engineering standards, and technology direction for store systems across NAPA.

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic technical initiatives that modernize Store systems, improve reliability and performance, simplify operations, and enable scalable capabilities across company-owned and independently owned stores.
  • Analyze the end-to-end store technology value chain, including point-of-sale, pricing, inventory, catalog, payments, order management, fulfillment, delivery, device management, and support processes, to identify opportunities to reduce friction and improve store execution.
  • Collaborate with senior leaders to integrate Store systems architecture and modernization priorities with business, product, operations, security, data, and enterprise technology roadmaps.
  • Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures
  • Lead architecture, design, code, and operational readiness reviews with engineering teams to ensure Store systems are secure, scalable, reliable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
  • Partner with Unified Experience, Product, UX, Architecture, and Engineering teams to define how Store Systems capabilities are exposed through unified associate, customer, call center, and owner experiences.
  • Own technical leadership for Store systems modernization by partnering with product and engineering teams to evolve legacy platforms, reduce operational complexity, improve integration quality, and create reusable patterns that accelerate delivery across store capabilities.

Requirements

  • This individual must be a technologist and engineer at heart, comfortable setting technical direction while staying close enough to the work to guide execution, remove complexity, and raise engineering quality.
  • Close collaboration and alignment with store operations, product, application development, infrastructure, security, data, and business teams will be required.
  • As such, exceptional abilities in building strong working relationships, influencing across teams, and communicating complex technical direction in a clear, business-relevant way will be required.
  • The ability to mentor senior engineers, establish technical standards, and elevate engineering practices across Store systems will be critical.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Expert knowledge of modern software development practices, including Agile, DevOps, Lean, Kanban, and SAFe, with experience scaling delivery practices across large engineering teams.
  • Experience standardizing operational templates across multi-store, multi-warehouse, and 3PL networks
  • 10+ years' experience in software engineering and technology, with 5+ years in a senior technical leadership role guiding architecture, engineering standards, and delivery for complex enterprise platforms, preferably in retail, store operations, commerce, supply chain, or distributed systems environments.
  • Hands-on experience with modern cloud-native engineering stacks, including Java/Spring Boot, Python, Node.js, GCP/AWS/Azure, APIs, microservices, Pub/Sub or equivalent messaging, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, CI/CD automation, and real-time processing pipelines.
  • Experience leading enterprise-scale integrations across Store systems, POS platforms, store operations workflows, WMS, OMS, TMS, ERP, warehouse automation, payments, pricing, inventory, catalog, carrier, automation, and customer-facing platforms.
  • Deep understanding of store technology platforms, distributed systems, edge computing, device management, IoT-enabled store devices, APIs, event-driven architecture, observability, and operational support models.
  • Strong engineering discipline across data integration patterns, design patterns, test-driven development, unit testing, performance engineering, destructive testing, and scalable quality practices.
  • Experience designing or defining lightweight warehouse management capabilities that support store and fulfillment operations.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver measurable business impact, including reduced cost, faster onboarding, improved throughput, higher reliability, and better operational efficiency.
  • AI-enabled engineering tools and practices supporting productivity, documentation, testing, analysis, coding, prototyping, and operational support.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and business impacts to engineering teams, senior leaders, business partners, and operational stakeholders.

Nice to have

  • Preferred experience with AI-enabled engineering capabilities, including policy enforcement, LLM routing, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks in secure enterprise environments.

Company info

  • Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a leading global service provider of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added solutions.
  • Our Automotive Parts Group operates across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australasia, France, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, while our Industrial Parts Group serves customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australasia.
  • Learn more at genpt.com.
  • We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work on a hybrid remote schedule.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information,
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