Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coach software and network engineering engineers across telemetry, automation, and virtualization domains.
• Define and execute the engineering roadmap for network observability, telemetry pipelines, automation platforms, and virtualized infrastructure with a priority on solutioning this roadmap for an AI Operations future state.
• Partner with Network Engineering, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Architecture, and Product stakeholders to prioritize outcomes and align delivery to enterprise needs.
• Integrate the principles of software engineering into a comprehensive AI Operations strategy across all team activities which will be used to enhance infrastructure observability and improvement performance of Lowe's infrastructure services.
• Establish and align with engineering standards for software quality, reliability, security, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Drive modernization of network automation workflows, including configuration management, orchestration, compliance validation, and remediation.
• Influences and establishes best-in-class engineering practices through sound design decisions; conducts regular code reviews to ensure teams adhere to best practices; and is directly involved with resolving defects at the code and platform levels.
• Develop integration principles with vendor platform systems for infrastructure telemetry, automation, and performance.
• Oversee development and operation of telemetry services that collect, process, store, and present network health and performance data.
• Lead the design and evolution of virtualization integrations and platform capabilities supporting network and infrastructure services.
• Manage capacity planning, vendor relationships, financial planning, and delivery metrics for the engineering portfolio.
• Develop talent through hiring, performance management, succession planning, and technical career development.

Required Qualifications

• * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. * 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams. * Demonstrated experience delivering production software for network automation, network telemetry, observability, infrastructure platforms, or virtualization. * Strong knowledge of network technologies and protocols, such as routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, syslog, NetFlow/IPFIX, gNMI , or streaming telemetry. * Experience with automation and configuration-management tooling, such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs, Git, and CI/CD pipelines. * Experience with virtualization and cloud platforms, such as VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, or equivalent technologies. * Proven ability to translate business and operational goals into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes. * Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and people-leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• * Experience building event-driven telemetry or observability platforms at enterprise scale. * Experience with network source-of-truth, IPAM, orchestration, or intent-based networking solutions. * Familiarity with data platforms, including time-series databases, streaming technologies, data lakes, or dashboarding tools. * Experience leading Agile product delivery and distributed engineering teams. * Experience in retail, large-scale enterprise infrastructure, or other highly available environments.

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