Principal Software Engineer

About Lowe’s
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Bengaluru, Lowe’s India develops innovative technology products and solutions and delivers business capabilities to provide the best omnichannel experience for Lowe’s customers. Lowe’s India employs over 4,200 associates across technology, analytics, merchandising, supply chain, marketing, finance and accounting, product management and shared services. Lowe’s India actively supports the communities it serves through programs focused on skill-building, sustainability and safe homes. For more information, visit, www.lowes.co.in.

Job Description
The Principal Software Engineer will influence a wide variety of business and technology decisions. This role will design, implement, and deliver cross-functional solutions for highly complex problems. This role will provide technical direction for an organization and set up an excellent engineering culture.
• Identifies problems, takes initiative, and makes an impact by driving clarity, convergence, and closure across teams and stakeholders.
• Actively looks out for tough problems (i.e., issues faced by customers, challenges faced by engineers, problems encountered by business leaders, etc.).
• Defines and executes the technical strategy for retail technology, ensuring alignment with business objectives, in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Decomposes complex problems to build simple solutions that can evolve over a period of time.
• Ensures smooth deployment and adoption of new systems in partnership with product owners and key stakeholders. Owns the end-to-end technical view of a solution and shapes the synergy between multiple systems.
• Identifies and analyzes tradeoffs to create exemplary architecture in terms of stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Champions and implements modern software methodologies to streamline development processes.
• Provides technical leadership in design and development of a system. Ensures the best quality of high-level and low-level designs. Builds secure systems that protect information and assets while delivering business value. Dives deep and fixes a complex system issue. Drives root cause analysis during critical production outages.
 
Key Responsibilities
•Develop scalable and intelligent platform for Omni channel purchase journey and omni channel quoting systems, aligning with company goals and customer needs
•Demonstrate deep knowledge of omni Order/ quote creation, impact on downstream and upstream systems, including distributed architecture, integrations, and scalability considerations
•Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, applying innovative solutions to providing customers a seamless collaborative shopping experience and understanding the omni order management challenges
•Independently lead projects with significant business implications, participating in planning, priority estimates, and advising Software Engineers.
•Mentor and advise others in all software development lifecycle phases, sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
•Support systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) for large, complex, cross-functional application initiatives, ensuring proper test coverage.
•Communicate changes in software architecture, coach others to apply this understanding to software solutions, and resolve escalated issues.

Minimum Qualifications
• 10 years of experience in software development or related field
• 8 years of experience in any of the following: software engineering competencies frontend technologies (UI/UX), middleware (microservices and APIs), database technologies, DevOps 
• 8 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems (CIS), or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree) 

Preferred Skills/Experience 
We encourage you to apply even if you do not have all the preferred skills or experience. 
•6 years of IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization
•6 years of experience working with source code control systems, defect or incident tracking software, and/or writing technical documentation in a software development environment
•6 years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions
•4 years of experience working with an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework
•4 years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports
•Experience working with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools
 

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.