Director, Software Engineering

Innovate in Bengaluru

This position is based at our on-site office in Bengaluru. Lowes offers an ultramodern work environment complete with cutting-edge technology collaborative workspaces an on-site gym and clinic and other perks to enhance your work experience.

Job Summary

• Establish org level reliability priorities and roadmaps in partnership with product platform engineering infrastructure and business leaders
• Manages reliability software engineering teams that design build and maintain technology products to unlock observability resilience engineering automation/AI ops and operational excellence across all platforms.
• Build the strong reliability culture spanning all 6 layers of reliability framework right from leading protecting detecting recovering learning to toil reduction
• Build the strong reliability model in maturity right from reactive to proactive to protective to predictive to self healing
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships to ensure reliability requirements are embedded into architecture design delivery and operations.
• Ensures the creation of standard operating procedures objectives and key results and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications across a portfolio of product groups.
• Leads a team in support of achieving the companys mission. Manages performance and fosters an inclusive environment to help associates achieve their potential.
• Drives end-to-end ownership of the technology solution.
• Ensures mechanisms are in place that allow teams to resolve production issues within defined service level agreements (SLAs); ensures that SLA breach issues do not recur.
• Establishes a sound and comprehensive testing strategy and ensures the team executes against this strategy consistently.
• Responsible for departmental budget and forecasting decisions and budget allocation; ensures technical solutions are delivered and maintained in a cost-effective manner.
• Partners with cross-functional leaders and enterprise architecture to ensure technology solutions built by the engineering team align to overall architectural and business standards.
• Influences and establishes sound engineering practices through solid design decisions and tools.
• Sets goals strategies 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 multiple portfolios 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 SDLC methodologies models and processes

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in business administration computer science computer information systems (CIS) engineering or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of education requirement if applicable
• 12 years of experience in software engineering site reliability engineering or related field
• 5 years of experience leading global technology teams with direct report responsibility
• 3 years of experience working closely with senior leadership
• 3 years of experience managing operational and/or financial budgets including the managing of third-party vendors and/or software providers

Primary Skills

Strategic Reliability & Platform Leadership

• Ability to define and execute a multi-year reliability strategy across a large heterogeneous enterprise environment.
• Experience establishing SLOs/SLA frameworks error budgets and business-aligned reliability goals.
• Proven track record driving cross-domain reliability improvements (e.g. e-commerce store systems distributed back-end platforms)

Modern Reliability Engineering

• Mastery of Reliability Engineering principles including observability automation chaos engineering incident response and postmortem practices.
• Experience designing and scaling self-healing resilient architectures across cloud on-prem and hybrid environments.
• Strong command of modern infrastructure stacks: Kubernetes cloud services (GCP/AWS/Azure) service mesh event-driven systems CI/CD.

Engineering Automation & Tooling Vision

• Strong background in developer productivity and reliability tooling:
• Observability platforms (logging metrics tracing)
• Incident management tooling
• Chaos/Resilience frameworks
• Deployment and pipeline automation
• Ability to define the tooling strategy that unifies reliability engineering across digital store and enterprise systems.

Leadership - (Strong non-negotiable) handling overlaps across teams and bringing together to one team positive culture excellent communication skills capable to front end Leadership teams

Secondary Skills

Extensive experience in largescale U.S. retail operations with a proven track record of managing and leading global crossfunctional teams.

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