Senior Principal Systems Engineer; Remote

The Systems Engineer Sr. Principal is responsible for overseeing the development, maintenance and support of The Home Depot's technical infrastructure that includes network, hardware, database and system software components. Sr. Principals will help accelerate delivery speed and quality through technical expertise, technical leadership, and by communicating best practices within their assigned IT portfolios. They will be a key contact point across a large portfolio for sharing and engaging with principal software engineers to foster learning and adoption of new technologies.

They will interface with our 3rd party vendors to ensure THD's technical needs are met and that we are driving interoperability within our existing technology landscape. The role will typically support 4-6 different teams (contrasted with 2-3 for a Principal and 6-10 for a Distinguished Engineer) which will span a variety of functioning products. They will ensure that teams are making good use of resources, designing and refactoring systems to optimize costs, and will be responsible for identifying opportunities to streamline processes and optimize current infrastructure.

• 30% Delivery and Execution
  - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing;
  Collaborates with other leaders to drive build versus buy decisions with regard to technology;
  Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption;
  Tracks and monitors efficient usage of resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
• 20% People
  - Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex challenges;
  Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports and supported teams;
  Conducts and collaborates with team leaders on annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback;
  Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent;
  Is active in building associate connections to the broader technology community
• 30% Strategy and Planning
  - Works with Distinguished Engineer(s) to define technology solutions (open source or vendor) teams should be exploring and/or leveraging;
  Works across teams to unify strategy and alignment;
  Identifies and removes potential roadblocks & bottlenecks across large cross-functional projects and initiatives;
  Participates in and influences development of technology roadmaps within a given portfolio;
  Drives thought leadership and innovation within a given portfolio
• 20% Support and Enablement
  - Point of escalation for high-priority issues and outages as they arise;
  Fields questions from project, product, and support teams;
  Helps solve technology disputes across local teams;
  Works with vendors to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products;
  Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technology with local teams

• This position typically reports to Distinguished Engineer
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 7-9 years of relevant work experience
• One of the fields of expertise should include a programming language or a…