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Lowe's offers an ultramodern work environment, complete with cutting-edge technology, collaborative workspaces, an on-site gym and clinic, and other perks to enhance your work experience.\nAbout Lowe’s\nLowe’s is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com. \nLowe’s India, the Global Capability Center of Lowe’s Companies Inc., is a hub for driving our technology, business, analytics, and shared services strategy. Based in Bengaluru with over 4,500 associates, it powers innovations across omnichannel retail, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, supply chain, and customer experience. From supporting and launching homegrown solutions to fostering innovation through its Catalyze platform, Lowe’s India plays a pivotal role in transforming home improvement retail while upholding strong commitment to social impact and sustainability. For more information, visit Lowes India.\nAbout the Team\nThe TMS (Transportation Management System) team builds and operates the platforms that orchestrate shipment execution across our supply chain-tendering, tracking, appointments, and freight workflows.\nWe deliver scalable, resilient microservices and integrations that connect carriers, distribution centers, and downstream systems through API-first and event-driven architectures.\nOur work directly impacts on-time delivery, transportation cost, and customer experience, especially during peak volume and high-availability events.\nJob Summary:\nexecuting direction from leadership, delivering results that align with strategic objectives, communicating critical information to other teams, managing vendor relationships, developing processes that align to organizational goals, specific technical skills required for managing a process.\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineering organization responsible for Freight Hawk and Freight Rate Estimations, two strategic Transportation platforms that power shipment visibility, predictive ETA, freight pricing, and transportation planning capabilities across the enterprise.\nThis leader will be responsible for defining the engineering strategy, leading multiple engineering teams, driving platform modernization, and delivering scalable, highly available solutions that support critical Transportation business capabilities. The role requires close partnership with Product, Architecture, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to execute a multi-year technology roadmap while building a high-performing engineering organization.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nCore Responsibilities:\nLead and mentor multiple software engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.\nDefine and execute the engineering strategy for Freight Hawk and Freight Rate Estimations in alignment with Transportation Technology objectives.\nDrive delivery of strategic initiatives across shipment visibility, predictive ETA, freight pricing, carrier integrations, and platform modernization.\nPartner with Product Management to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions and predictable delivery plans.\nCollaborate with Enterprise Architecture to establish technology direction, engineering standards, and long-term platform evolution.\nChampion cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, API-first design, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.\nImprove engineering execution through Agile delivery, release planning, quality engineering, DevSecOps, and engineering metrics.\nBuild organizational capability through hiring, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and talent development.\nDrive platform reliability, security, performance, and scalability while balancing feature delivery with technical debt reduction.\nManage cross-functional dependencies, stakeholder communication, and engineering risks across multiple Transportation initiatives.\nYears of Experience:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\n12+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years leading engineering managers or multiple engineering teams.\nProven experience delivering large-scale distributed systems and enterprise applications in cloud environments.\nStrong experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, REST APIs, messaging platforms, and modern software engineering practices.\nExperience leading Agile software development organizations with a strong focus on engineering excellence and operational reliability.\nExcellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.\nDemonstrated success in building high-performing engineering teams and driving organizational change.\nEducation Qualification & Certifications (optional)\nRequired Minimum Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.\nSkill Set Required\nEngineering Leadership & People Management - Experience leading multiple engineering teams/managers, coaching talent, performance management, hiring, and succession planning.\nLarge-Scale Distributed Systems - Strong understanding of highly available, scalable enterprise platforms and distributed architectures.\nMicroservices & Event-Driven Architecture - Hands-on understanding of microservices, REST APIs, Kafka/event streaming, asynchronous processing, and integration patterns.\nCloud & Platform Engineering - Experience with cloud-native applications, Kubernetes/container platforms, CI/CD, DevSecOps, scalability, resiliency, and observability.\nData-Intensive Systems - Experience building platforms involving high-volume transactional/event data, data quality, data consistency, and near-real-time processing.\nEngineering Strategy & Architecture - Ability to influence architecture, modernization strategy, technical debt management, and long-term platform evolution.\nDelivery & Execution Leadership - Proven ability to manage multiple roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and large cross-functional initiatives.\nStakeholder Management - Strong partnership with Product, Architecture, Business, Data, Infrastructure, and other engineering organizations.\nSecondary Skills (desired)\nSupply Chain / Transportation / Logistics domain experience\nFreight pricing/rating, rate shopping, contract/rate management, reconciliation, or freight payment experience\nPredictive ETA, optimization, or AI/ML-enabled decisioning\nKafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and modern observability platforms\nAPI management and enterprise integration patterns\nSRE practices, performance engineering, disaster recovery, and production operational excellence\nExperience modernizing legacy/on-prem platforms to cloud-native architectures\nFinOps/cost optimization and engineering productivity\nExperience leading geographically distributed/global teams\nLowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, 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 state or local law. 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