Senior Principal Software Engineer - Generative AI & Mobile Platforms; Remote

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will serve as the chief technical architect and visionary leader for our Mobile App Renovation Strategy (MARS). You will define the future of our high-performance, modular, and intelligent mobile ecosystem. This role demands a world-class engineer who is deeply technical, possesses an extensive background in native mobile development and server-side orchestration, and can champion innovative AI-first software development.

You will report directly to senior technology leadership and lead cross-functional feature and platform teams to build our next-generation architecture. We are seeking a visionary leader who will not only build the platform but will also aggressively drive AI-first software development. You will establish, steer, and inspire our AI Tiger Team and directly influence how engineering teams utilize artificial intelligence throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

• 50% Delivery and Execution
  - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing;
  Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio;
  Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption;
  Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
• 10% People
  - Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex challenges;
  Presents at and attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies and concepts;
  Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports;
  Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback;
  Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent
• 15% Strategy and Planning
  - Works with a Distinguished Engineer to define technology solutions (open source or vendor) teams should be exploring and/or leveraging;
  Works across local 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
• 25% 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 reports to various individuals. This position has 4-6 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.
• Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT
• Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry
• Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
• 7 years of relevant work experience
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent in a field of study related to the job
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