Software Engineering-Mobile Apps Senior Director

Innovate in Charlotte

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Your Impact

The primary purpose of this role is to oversee the management of multiple application portfolios and provide resources in support of those portfolios by leveraging partnerships with technology teams, vendors, and business leaders. This includes responsibility for directing and overseeing technical teams in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions. This role owns and leads the work across the largest and most complex capabilities for the organization. This role works closely with senior business leaders and across IT teams in order to ensure the delivery and performance of business solutions. This is a leader of people who clears obstacles for the team while empowering and enabling others to solve complex technical and business problems and requires a strong combination of business and technical acumen to provide solutions that balance the unique needs of both the business and technology.

What You Will Do

• Establishes the priorities for multiple portfolios and product groups in partnership with the product team.

• Manages software engineering teams that design, build, and maintain technology products across a complete portfolio of services and applications and is accountable for the overall health of the portfolio.

• Builds and maintains partnerships with all functions to ensure technology team members understand business needs, functional specifications, and user journeys; articulates the technology vision to the team.

• Provides insight and guidance on and resolves cross-functional issues that are escalated throughout the application development, testing, implementation, and support lifecycle across portfolios and product groups.

• 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 company’s 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

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, computer information systems (CIS), engineering, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable

• 12 years of IT experience

• 12 years of experience in software engineering or related field

• 7 years of experience leading global technology teams with direct report responsibility

• 4 years of experience working closely with senior leadership

• 5 years of experience managing operational and/or financial budgets, including the managing of third-party vendors and/or software providers

• Experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)

Preferred Skills/Education

• Master’s degree in business administration, computer science, CIS, engineering, or related field or equivalent experience

• 5 years of experience in software development in an agile environment

• Experience in a leadership role in a large matrixed organization

• Experience managing the development, implementation, and integration of multiple and/or complex business systems within an organization

• IT consulting experience

• Experience in IT Management in the retail industry

• Second level IT management experience

Benefits

·         401k with up to 4.25% match

·         Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount of strike price)

·         Tuition-Free Education

·         10-week Maternity/Parental Leave

·         10% Associate Discount

·         For information about our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits

About Lowe’s 

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week, with total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,700 home improvement stores, 530 branches and 130 distribution centers. 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.   

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. 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 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.