Software Engineering Manager Data Engineering
The Home Depot
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Job Description
Software Engineering Manager - Data Engineering, EDW
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will contribute to the products we create while helping to grow the next generation of engineering talent. This role will support our Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) data teams, which are responsible for building and maintaining scalable data pipelines, supporting data domain analytics, and enabling downstream products such as data views and AtScale cubes.
In addition, you will work closely with our most strategic vendors to ensure that third-party tools and applications are readily available and effectively supported for all product teams that rely on our enterprise data platforms.
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
Key Skills/Competency
- Data Engineering
- Software Engineering Management
- Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
- Data Pipelines
- Cloud Data Platforms (GCP/BigQuery)
- SQL
- Data Modeling
- ETL
- CI/CD
- Leadership
How to Get Hired at The Home Depot
- Tailor your resume: Highlight experience in data engineering, team leadership, and cloud platforms like GCP/BigQuery to match the Software Engineering Manager role.
- Showcase leadership: Emphasize your experience attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent in your application.
- Demonstrate technical skills: Clearly outline your expertise in SQL, data modeling, and large-scale data processing for enterprise environments.
- Prepare for behavioral questions: Be ready to discuss your approach to team collaboration, talent development, and managing ambiguity as a leader.
- Understand The Home Depot's culture: Research their commitment to innovation and customer service in the retail technology space.
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