Senior Principal Systems Engineer (Remote)
About The Position
The Senior Principal Systems Engineer oversees the development, maintenance, and support of The Home Depot’s technical infrastructure, including network, hardware, database, and system software components. The role accelerates delivery speed and quality through technical expertise, technical leadership, and communication of best practices across assigned IT portfolios. It serves as a key point of contact across a large portfolio, working with principal software engineers to encourage learning and adoption of new technologies. The engineer also works with third-party vendors to meet technical needs and promote interoperability within the existing technology landscape. The role typically supports 4–6 teams across a variety of products. It ensures teams use resources effectively, design and refactor systems to optimize costs, and identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve infrastructure. The position typically reports to a Distinguished Engineer and has no direct reports. Overnight travel is typically required 5%–20% of the time.
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Minimum of 9 years of work experience.
- High school diploma and/or GED, or the knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through completion of that education.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Expertise in a programming language or key knowledge across multiple infrastructure domains.
- Mastery in assigned domains.
- Ability to understand complicated systems quickly.
Nice To Haves
- 7–9 years of relevant work experience (listed as a preferred qualification).
- Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with specific domains.
- At least 1 year of previous leadership experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio-level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with leaders on technology build-versus-buy decisions.
- Develop proofs of concept with new technologies and support adoption across the portfolio.
- Monitor efficient resource usage and drive cost reduction opportunities and enhancements.
- Act as an escalation point for teams facing extremely complex challenges.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports and supported teams.
- Collaborate with team leaders on annual and mid-year reviews, development plans, and performance feedback.
- Attract, retain, develop, and motivate talent, and build associates’ connections to the broader technology community.
- Work with Distinguished Engineer(s) to define technology solutions, including open-source or vendor solutions, for teams to explore or use.
- Unify strategy and alignment across teams.
- Identify and remove roadblocks and bottlenecks across large cross-functional projects and initiatives.
- Participate in and influence technology roadmaps within the portfolio, driving thought leadership and innovation.
- Serve as an escalation point for high-priority issues and outages.
- Answer questions from project, product, and support teams and help resolve technology disputes across local teams.
- Work with vendors to identify and implement software product feature enhancements.
- Promote successful use of tools and technology among local teams.
- Ensure teams use resources effectively and design or refactor systems to optimize costs.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes and optimize existing infrastructure.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
High school or GED
