Manager, Technology - Store Systems

The Home Depot

About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Overview: As a Manager Technology, you will contribute to the products we create, help grow the next generation of talent, and help build new technology solutions for the enterprise. This position oversees and directs several teams of associates in the development, implementation and ongoing support of Home Depot’s existing and new software applications. You will work closely with end-user groups to ensure operational stability and that new applications meet the practical needs of the Home Depot.

Requirements

Excellent organizational and large-scale projects management skills.
Excellent communication skills, including, presentation, facilitation and writing skills.
Excellent stakeholders and vendor management skills.
Strong business and financial analysis skills
Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with large-scale systems of world-class availability, scalability, and performance requirements.
Experience in operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking
Proficient in hiring, managing and growing team members in a professional setting
Proficient in prioritizing and balancing workloads across multiple team member
Experience in conducting regular performance evaluations and provide feedback.
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
6-8 Years of Relevant Work Experience, including experience managing cross functional software development initiatives
3-5 year Relevant experience leading large teams

Nice To Haves

Exposure to Retail and HR applications an asset.
Exposure to onboarding SaaS platforms will considered an asset.
Experience with SQL, SAP, Cloud technologies, Micro services, CI/CD, web technologies (e.g., Java, spring, spring boot, angular, Ruby, React etc) & SOA/distributed applications architectures.
Previous experience with the modernization of legacy systems, particularly working on 4ge and Informix server upgrades, is considered a valuable asset.
Experience operating independently across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking
Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and drive results with multiple partners in different time zones.
Highly preferred technology experience of applications in any big box retail organization.
Software development background is preferred.
Experience working with senior leaders to drive business decisions and deliver projects
Previous experience defining SLAs and performance matrix for the team, and regularly monitoring and mentoring them to achieve those with high quality standards.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning: Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
Thought Leadership- Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams
Delivery & Execution: Owns and manages key functional areas and tracks the progress of multiple projects on the Home Depot’s Tool Rental and HR systems portfolio.
Collaborates and partners with other teams to create secure,robust, reliable, scalable software solutions
Partner with Business and technology teams to build Functional and Technology roadmap projects using agile scrum methodology
Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
Project management and administration that include work plans, projects, resource planning, status reports, and preparing annual budgets.
Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of applications and platforms
Responsible to build dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
Resolves information services problems by analyzing issues, discerning the most appropriate courses of action, providing tactical direction and, when necessary, re-allocating resources
Communicates status of activities with the senior management, business partners, peers and end users.
Develop a comprehensive journey map of Store Operations and propose a future-state application platform centered around modern applications and deliver a prioritized roadmap for legacy application decommissioning.
Support & Enablement: Responds to questions/inquiries from Business stakeholders, Technology team members, product teams, or support teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment across all groups.
Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
Learns through reading, tutorials, videos, and other mediums on new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
Provides application support for software running in production.
People Leadership: Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to team members and other technology associates
Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class software engineering team
Build high performance technology teams. hire, develop, motivate and retain high potential technical resources.
Conduct 1:1 meetings with Associates.
Conducts Regular PACE/performance reviews, including reviewing individual development plans
Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose associates to career interests
Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across cross functional teams
Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)