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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 and hardware platforms. You will work closely with end-user groups to ensure operational stability and that new applications meet the practical needs of the company.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

Provides input into strategic plans by sharing team-level insights and delivery outcomes in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
Manages day-to-day vendor interactions and escalations; ensures vendor deliverables align with domain and portfolio objectives
Researches and pilots new tools or technologies within the team and shares recommendations for broader adoption
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 Ecommerce Path to Purchase 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.

Support & Enablement

Responds to inquiries from business stakeholders, technology teams, product teams, and support functions, ensuring clear communication and alignment across all groups.
Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
Proactively builds foundational knowledge of emerging technologies and industry best practices by engaging with diverse learning resources such as articles, tutorials, videos, and thought leadership content from leading 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, develops, and retains top technical talent to build and sustain high-performing, world-class software development teams
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)

Skills

Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with large-scale systems of world-class availability, scalability, and performance requirements.
Excellent communication skills, including, presentation, facilitation and writing skills.
Excellent stakeholders and vendor management skills.
Strong business and financial analysis skills
Technical background in cloud platforms (Google Cloud preferred), modern application frameworks (Java, Spring Boot, Angular/React), enterprise systems (SAP), and exposure to emerging technologies (e.g., Generative AI).
Excellent organizational and large-scale projects management skills.
Experience 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 conducting regular performance evaluations and provide feedback.

Minimum Education

A bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.

Minimum Years of Work Experience

6-8 Years of Relevant Work Experience, including experience managing cross functional software development initiatives

Minimum Leadership Experience

2-3 year Relevant experience leading large teams

Other Requirements/Assets

Micro services, Devops, SRE, CI/CD, web technologies (e.g., Java, spring, spring boot, angular, JVM etc.) & SOA/distributed applications architectures.
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.

Manager, Technology – Ecommerce

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