Software Engineer Manager, Supply Chain Sourcing (REMOTE)

About this role

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose: As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead high-performing engineering teams responsible for building and supporting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions for mission-critical Supply Chain and Retail platforms. You will drive modern engineering practices, including AI-enabled development, data-driven operations, and engineering excellence, while partnering with Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative, high-impact technology solutions. Additionally, you will mentor engineering talent, guide technical strategy, and manage key vendor partnerships that support product and platform success.

Key Responsibilities:

• 30% 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 • Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise • Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise • Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office • 10% Support & Enablement: • Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams • Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams • Provides application support for software running in production • Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team • 50% 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) • 10% Learning: • Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations • Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Direct Manager/Direct Reports: • Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

Travel Requirements: • Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements: • Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions: • Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications: • 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

Preferred Qualifications: • 7+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams and large-scale technology initiatives • Proven experience leading high-performing engineering organizations delivering cloud-native, highly scalable, secure, and resilient software solutions • Strong expertise designing, developing, and operating Java-based applications, microservices, and REST APIs supporting high-volume, mission-critical systems • Experience leading engineering teams responsible for Order Processing, Commerce, Supply Chain, Store Systems, or Selling platforms • Demonstrated success driving AI-enabled software development practices, engineering automation, and engineering productivity initiatives • Experience implementing Machine Learning-enabled business capabilities within enterprise-scale applications • Strong understanding of Spec-Driven Development, modern software engineering methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Agile delivery frameworks • Expertise with cloud-native architectures, containerization technologies, and public cloud platforms • Advanced proficiency with relational databases, SQL, performance tuning, and data-driven engineering operations • Strong troubleshooting, system monitoring, observability, and incident management expertise • Proven ability to quickly understand complex business domains, distributed architectures, and enterprise technology ecosystems • Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers and engineering leaders while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement • Experience translating enterprise technology strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps and successful execution plans • Demonstrated ability to effectively manage team capacity, prioritize investments, and balance workloads across multiple initiatives • Experience partnering with Product Management and Architecture teams to define technical vision, solution strategy, and long-term platform evolution • Experience managing strategic vendor relationships and evaluating third-party technologies to support en

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