Software Engineer Manager - Data Engineering, EDW (Remote)

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, and they are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to contribute to their Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) data teams. The role involves building and maintaining scalable data pipelines, supporting data analytics, and mentoring the next generation of engineering talent.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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

Requirements:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• 5 years of relevant experience in data engineering, with a strong hands-on technical background
• 2+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Proven experience leading data engineering initiatives and managing technical teams in an enterprise environment
• Strong expertise in cloud-based data platforms, preferably GCP / BigQuery
• Deep knowledge of SQL, data modeling, and large-scale data processing for high-volume, enterprise-scale data environments
• Experience supporting and operating data platforms with significant data volume and complexity
• Experience with data orchestration tools, CI/CD pipelines, and modern ETL processes
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence a wide range of stakeholders
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and people management skills
• Experience operating in fast-paced, enterprise-scale environments with complex systems
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to quickly understand complicated systems
• No additional education
• No additional years of experience
• None