Software Engineer Manager, Supply Chain Sourcing

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead high-performing engineering teams responsible for building and supporting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions for mission-critical Supply Chain and Retail platforms. You will drive modern engineering practices, including AI-enabled development, data-driven operations, and engineering excellence, while partnering with Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative, high-impact technology solutions. Additionally, you will mentor engineering talent, guide technical strategy, and manage key vendor partnerships that support product and platform success. Key Responsibilities: - 30% Delivery & Execution: - 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 - 10% Support & Enablement: - 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 - 50% People: - 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) - 10% Learning: - 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 Direct Manager/Direct Reports: - Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director. Travel Requirements: - Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time. Physical 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. Working Conditions: - Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable. Minimum Qualifications: - 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) - Must be legally permitted to work in the United States Preferred Qualifications: - 7+ years of progressive software eng