About Lowe’sLowe’s is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.Lowe’s India, the Global Capability Center of Lowe’s Companies Inc., is a hub for driving our technology, business, analytics, and shared services strategy. Based in Bengaluru with over 4,500 associates, it powers innovations across omnichannel retail, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, supply chain, and customer experience. From supporting and launching homegrown solutions to fostering innovation through its Catalyze platform, Lowe’s India plays a pivotal role in transforming home improvement retail while upholding strong commitment to social impact and sustainability. For more information, visit Lowes IndiaAbout the TeamProduct Discovery team powers the tools and platforms that enables the omnichannel product discovery experience by providing relevant results based on the user query intent. Search platform drives the discovery experience for everyday customers by carefully tailoring the experience for their needs across web, app and stores. Team is located cross-geographically with team members located in India and USRoles & Responsibilities:Driving the right organizational structure within your teams to deliver on core goals for the organization with greaty quality and efficiencyDrive strong engineering practices to drive efficiency in the organization and the development process. Expertise building scalable data-driven solutions will be a keyDrive the long term engineering vision, design and architecture working closely in partnership with your product and engineering peers. Driving Engineering excellence across team to be focus areaPartners with the product & datascience team to establish the priorities across an entire portfolio of product groups.Manages software engineering teams that design, build, and maintain solutions across multiple technology products; ensures the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions.Builds and maintains partnerships with all functions to ensure technology team members understand business needs, functional specifications, and user journeys.Provides insight and guidance and resolves cross-functional issues that are escalated throughout the application development, testing, implementation, and support lifecycle across an entire portfolio of product groups.Ensures the creation of standard operating procedures, objectives and key results, and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications within a product group.Ensures mechanisms are in place that allows teams to resolve production issues within defined standard level agreements.Monitors testing activities from a high level, ensuring that all testing efforts align to the team's testing strategy; meets with testing teams when necessary to review the progress of testing efforts.Responsible for departmental budget and forecasting decisions and budget allocation; ensures technical solutions are delivered and maintained in a cost-effective mannerPartners with cross-functional leaders to ensure technology solutions built by the engineering team align to overall architectural and business standards.Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers.Influences and establishes best-in-class engineering practices through solid design decisions and tools.Sets goal, strategies, and budgets and oversees the deployment of large/enterprise-scale initiatives and encourages a data-driven culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of applications.Manages a portfolio of services or applications and provides resources in support of the applications by leveraging partnerships with technology teams, vendors, and business leaders.Leads teams through all technology solution development phases by ensuring teams understand and adhere to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls; ensures team members are trained in software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, models, and processes.Leads the teams in support of achieving the company’s mission. Manages performance and fosters an inclusive environment to help associates achieve their potential.Required Minimum Qualifications:15 years of experience in software engineering or related field5+ years of direct team leadership experience leading global technology teams3+ years of experience working closely with senior leadership3 years of experience managing operational and/or financial budgets, including the managing of third-party vendors and/or software providersBachelor's Degree in business administration, computer science, computer information systems (CIS), engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience in lieu of degreeLowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
