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.

About the Team 
Lowe's Payments solutions enables the customer payments by authoring the transaction, produce the settlement feeds to acquirers receive the funding, does reconciliation and posts the transactions to General ledger for financial accounting. This team supports the settlement function of the above and also is focused on modernization from Mainframes to microservices.

Job Summary
The primary purpose of this role is to lead a team (or teams) of software engineers in the modernizing Settlement applications along with supporting and enhancing legacy systems.
This includes providing oversight of the implementation and maintenance of business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment of released applications.
This individual also provides insight and recommendations to inform the roadmap and overall health and care of the larger portfolio.
This is a leader of people who clears obstacles for his/her team while empowering and enabling others to solve complex technical and business problems. To be successful, the individual in this role must bring a strong combination of business and technical acumen and be able to provide solutions that balance the unique needs of both the business and Technology.

Roles & Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
• Partners with the product team to help inform the priorities within a set of products, applications, and/or services
• Manages software engineers who design, build and maintain solutions within a set of technology products and/or services; oversees the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions
• Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers, third-party vendors, and senior management
• Resolves escalated issues throughout the development, configuration, and modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions
• Creates and/or leads the creation of SOPs, KPIs, and overall operationalization of assigned services or applications
• Hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; monitors team/individual’s morale and engagement to maintain highly effective and collaborative environments
• Controls project risks by analyzing and identifying trigger events, establishing response and contingency plans and recommending ways to mitigate future risks
• Manages the completion of systems integration testing (SIT) and responsible for ensuring that user acceptance testing (UAT) is completed successfully
• Provides input for departmental budget and forecasting, and manages expenses associated with initiatives within scope of responsibility
• Responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance, support and scalability of robust, reliable and secure business and enterprise software solutions
• Partners with engineers and architects to ensure optimal technology solutions are built by the engineering team
• Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal customers
• Influences and establishes best in class engineering practices through solid design decisions and tools
• Coordinates the estimation and execution of plans, schedules, and resource forecasts for the services or applications in his/her scope
• Manages multiple services or applications and provides resources in support of the applications by leveraging partnerships with technology teams, vendors, and business leaders 
• Leads team through all technology solution development phases by ensuring team understands and adheres to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls 
• Provides leadership to the team by attracting and hiring talented individuals, setting goals and communicating clear expectations, providing timely and constructive feedback as well as meaningful developmental opportunities, managing performance, providing resources and support as needed, and sponsoring and leading team members through change 

Years of Experience 
8 years of IT experience 
• 7 years of experience in software engineering or related field 
• 7 years working on project(s) involving the implementation of software development life cycles (SDLC) 
• 3 years of experience leading project or technical teams with or without formal direct report responsibility; this includes experience providing technical direction, thought leadership, coaching and mentoring to team members 
• 3 years of experience in software development in an agile environment 

Preferred
• Experience managing operational and/or project financial budgets 
• IT consulting experience 
• Experience in IT Management in the retail industry 
• Experience working with 3rd party vendors and/or software solution providers 
• 3 years working in an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework 
• Experience in an IT role requiring interaction with senior leadership 

Education Qualification & Certifications (optional)
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field 

Skill Set Required 
Primary Skills (must have)

• Java/J2EE, Springboot, Microservices, React, Kafka, Postgres, DB2
• Build Effective Teams 
• Manage Stakeholders 
• Attract Top Talent 
• Exhibit Technology Acumen 
• Ensure Accountability 
• Communicate Effectively
• Optimize Work Processes
• Plan and Align
• Coaching & Mentoring Others 
• Product Design and Development 
• Communicating Technical Concepts 

    
Secondary Skills (Desired)
•Spark
•MF skills is an added advantage

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.