SOFTWARE ENGINEER SR MANAGER (AI enablement and optimization)

The Home Depot

2d•$170,000 - $280,000

About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: As a Software Engineer Sr. Manager, you will be given a chance to contribute to the products we create, help grow the next generation of engineering talent, and help shape the technology strategy of the enterprise. In addition, you will be given the chance to work with our most strategic vendors to ensure that 3rd party tools and applications are readily available to all product teams that are interested in using them. The Sr. Manager must exhibit the ability to lead managers and their teams and drive change management and process improvement.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
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.

Nice To Haves

6–8 years of relevant professional experience
Strong experience with corporate communications platforms and intranet tools (e.g., MyApron, Viva Engage)
Experience with enterprise content and imaging systems (e.g., DocuSign, Adobe Sign, Smartsheet)
Deep expertise in AI enablement and adoption, including leading or supporting an internal team to identify use cases, build solutions, and scale best practice
Hands‑on familiarity with modern AI tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub, Copilot) and proven ability to drive adoption across teams
Ability to operate without a formal product team, including creating roadmaps and shaping strategy independently
Strong technical foundation (Python preferred; experience with modern frameworks, SQL, and product development pipelines)
Proven people leadership experience, including mentoring, workload balancing, and vendor management
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts in plain language and translate strategy into execution
Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
Proficient managing and growing team members in a professional setting
Proficient balancing workloads across teams
Experience managing vendor relationships
Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution

Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning: Works and negotiates with partners on the staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams
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 aligned to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams
Delivery & Execution: Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics
Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
Support & Enablement: Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
Provides application support for software running in production
Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
People: Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems