Position is based in Charlotte, NC, some teleworking may be permitted. Travel to Lowe's offices may be required. Manages software engineers who design, build, and maintain solutions within a set of technology products and/or services; oversees the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions. Influences and establishes best-in-class engineering practices through solid design decisions; conducts regular code reviews to ensure teams are adhering to best practices; and is directly involved with resolving defects at the code and platform levels. Leverages DevOps tools such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitHub, and Grafana to actively monitor and identify improvement opportunities with delivered products. Acts as a hands-on leader responsible for building highly scalable and readily available solutions focused on customer needs, and proactively tracks key results related to code reliability, reusability, security, and automation. Holds teams accountable to delivering solutions and strives to continuously improve throughput and overall team velocity. Partners with Scrum teams to ensure plans properly align team capacity and identifies ways to increase team velocity and reduce sprint spillover. Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers, third-party vendors, and senior management. Resolves escalated issues throughout the development, configuration, and modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions. Designs solutions leveraging microservice architecture and relies on event and data-driven API integration. Partners with product team members to help inform the priorities within a set of products, applications, and/or services. Provides input for departmental budget and forecasting, and manages expenses associated with initiatives within scope of responsibility. Coordinates the estimation and execution of plans, schedules, and resource forecasts for the services or applications in scope. Responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance, support and scalability of robust, reliable, and secure business and enterprise software solutions. Manages multiple services or applications and provides resources in support of the applications by leveraging partnerships with technology teams, vendors, and business leaders. Leads team through all technology solution development phases by ensuring team understands and adheres to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls. Educates and aligns team on departmental SOPs, OKRs, and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications. Provides leadership to the team by attracting and hiring talented individuals, setting goals, and communicating clear expectations, providing timely and constructive feedback as well as meaningful developmental opportunities, managing performance, providing resources and support as needed, and sponsoring and leading team members through change. Ensures teams adhere to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls; provides team members training opportunities in SDLC methodologies, models, and processes utilized within the product space.