Senior Manager Ecommerce Cloud Engineering

'Want to know what it's like to work in IT at The Home Depot?'
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POSITION PURPOSE -
The Home Depot is the leading retailer in home improvement across all channels - stores, online, and mobile. Online technology is a strategic investment area for the company and the driving force behind our interconnected retail strategy. We are looking for highly qualified technical leaders and innovators to help grow one of the largest, fastest-growing eCommerce web sites in the world.As a Senior Manager on the eCommerce Platform team you will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting the application infrastructure of The Home Depot's eCommerce platform. This will require the relentless pursuit of higher site availability through more resilient infrastructure and the ability to embrace rapid change and growth using a strong devops mindset of continuous delivery. This is a demanding role that requires long term vision, deep technical knowledge, adaptability to change, and gets-stuff-done execution.
In this role

• You will manage multiple engineering teams, including both managers and individual contributors
• Have a maniacal focus on site uptime
• Attract, recruit, grow, and retain highly energized engineers
• Manage multi-million dollar capex and opex budgets
• Build and manage the infrastructure for a large scale, highly available eCommerce platform
• Build the tools and automation to drive continuous integration and deployment of rapidly changing web applications
• Embed with and empower development teams using a strong devops mindset
• Automate, Automate, Automate

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS -

• Proven, results-oriented leader with at least 5 years of IT Management experience delivering significant infrastructure and automation for large-scale web platforms
• Expertise in DevOps processes and technologies, eCommerce systems, retail industry best practices, operational concerns, technology trends, and innovations
• Excellent communications, organization, and time management skills
• Experience in attracting, engaging, and developing world-class technical talent
• Able to create and drive strategic goals through accountability and execution excellence
• Demonstrated experience in executing/delivering projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience with several web application platforms: Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss, Apache, NginX, Varnish, Endeca, etc
• Experience with public or private cloud web hosting
• Experience with infrastructure configuration management tools such as Puppet and Chef
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring tools: Dynatrace, Splunk, Gomez, and Extrahop
• Experience with continuous integration platforms such as Jenkins/Hudson and Maven
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES -
Builds relationship with key user and store operation groups to identify and resolve business issues.
Manages and provides technical and business direction that affects capacity planning, new applications, data security, and LAN systems, among others.
Manages and tracks the progress of multiple projects. Project management and administration that include work plans, projtrac, resource planning and control, writing status reports, and preparing annual budgets. Conduct regular project reviews.
Resolves information services problems by analyzing issues, discerning the most appropriate courses of action, providing tactical direction and, when necessary, reallocating resources.
Provides operations analysis and consults to internal clients on business process improvement.
Conducts financial analyses to support strategic planning on system purchases, upgrades and reclamation. Negotiates favorable prices with vendors on hardware and software.
Communicates status of activities with the team, peers, management, and end-users.
Selects, develops and motivates assigned staff.

NATURE AND SCOPE -
Typically reports to a Director of Information Services or Senior Vice President
Direct reports may include Managers of IS and various IS department Associates.
Typically requires frequent persuasion or influencing of others
Typically faces situations that have a variety of interpretations and require careful evaluation.
Typically considers among many different options or procedures when solving problems.
Typically expected to provide infrequent status reports to management only as appropriate.

ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS -
Under constant pressure to continuously meet tight deadlines, demanding quotas and/or must regularly deal with difficult situationsMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS -
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must pass the Drug Test.
Must successfully complete any required training or orientation courses.

EDUCATION REQUIRED -
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diplomas and/or GED.

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE - 10

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS -
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.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS -
Over one year of experience in a manager capacity

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES -
Knowledge of MS Office and Lotus Notes
Proficiency with the Home Depot software architecture, methodology and governance.
Business and financial analysis skills.
People leadership/supervisory skills.
Technical skills may include experience with one or more of: UNIX, Informix, COBOL, JAVA, Catalyst WMS and YMS, Korn Shell Scripting, Novell, Netware, Onnet, Sequelink, TSO/ISPF/MVS, DB2/SQL, JCL, CSP, CICS TCP/IP, Visual Basic, Networking, and LAN administration.
Presentation, facilitation and writing skills.
Project management estimating, planning, controlling, and execution