Distinguished Engineer, Retail Media+ - Atlanta, United States - Home Depot

Description

Position Purpose:

As the Distinguished Engineer, Retail Media+, you will be the technical leader for a skilled team of software engineers in their work to develop, maintain and extend Home Depot's AdTech software services.

Our tech team is building out the Ads infrastructure at Home Depot to help advertisers reach their target audience as well as end customers to have the best experience with products and services offered at Home Depot.

An ideal candidate must have deep expertise of core ad tech components such as ad servers, campaign management, auctions, bidding, pacing, yield optimization, targeting systems.

Responsibilities of the role include:

Technical Leadership:

Lead a team of principal engineers and help guide the engineering team to create scalable and highly performant implementation for the ad tech platform, including the integration of 3P services.

Help resolve complex technical issues and ambiguity, own the multi-year technical roadmap, ensure technically correct implementation of key business requirements.

Provide mentorship to engineers to drive achieve technical excellence.

Architecture and Data:

Guide the architecture and the implementation of RM data services and management, ensuring efficient data processing, storage, and retrieval.

Work closely with Data Engineering, Data Science and Enterprise teams for delivering integrated solutions.

Champion a data driven culture in the team including the adoption of tools and analytics to help with debugging, monitoring and observability.

Drive collaboration and best practices:

Foster collaboration via cross-functional teams, including the broader enterprise architects, product, and the business to help deliver efficient solutions while increasing velocity for the teams.

Help drive the adoption of technical best practices, improve operational excellence, participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and continuous improvement.

Thought Leadership:

Represent Home Depot in technical conferences, presentations, participate in industry standards, monitor emerging technologies, and best practices in ad tech, and help guide internal adoption and implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• 30% Strategy & Planning:
• Works with senior leaders to shape the go-forward vision for the organization from a specific domain perspective
• Works with vendors and partners on the successful strategy, planning, and implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Participates in and influences development of technology roadmaps across the enterprise
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Drives thought leadership and innovation within the organization
• 30% Support & Enablement:
• Fields questions from product, project and support teams
• Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technologies with teams
• Monitors tools and leads conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, relationships, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used in other organizations
• 25% Delivery & Execution:
• Teaches, mentors, grows, and advises other domain experts in the organization (including direct reports, if applicable)
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Works with vendors and partners on the successful planning and implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Understands and articulates the value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• 15% People:
• Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex challenges
• Participates in and leads learning activities within the organization
• Connects teams facing similar challenges and problems to encourage consistency
• Presents at and attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies and concepts
• Capable of jumping into a variety of teams to resolve issues
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports (if applicable)
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback (if applicable)
• Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent (applicable if incumbent has direct reports)

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This role typically reports to Sr. Director or Vice President and may have a small number of non-manager direct reports with VP approval.

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.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in a solutions architecture or technical leadership or individual contributor role.
• Design and delivery experience of performant software and ad tech systems, familiarity with cloud services with proficiency in programming
• Strong knowledge of ad tech standards and protocols (IAB, OpenRTB) and real-time bidding (RTB)
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead tech teams.
• Experience with performance monitoring and optimization tools
• Experience implementing Data science models and ML.
• Familiarity with programmatic, ad exchanges, DSP, SSP is a plus.
• Experience with privacy standards including best practices, is a plus.

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 8

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Action Oriented:

Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm

• Attracts Top Talent:

Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs (applicable if incumbent has direct reports)

• Builds Effective Teams:

Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals (applicable if incumbent has direct reports)

• Builds Networks:

Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization

• Collaborates:

Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

• Courage:

Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said

• Cultivates Innovation:

Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful

• Decision Quality:

Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward

• Develops Talent:

Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals (applicable if incumbent has direct reports)

• Drives Engagement:

Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives (applicable if incumbent has direct reports)

• Drives Results:

Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances

• Drives Vision and Purpose:

Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action

• Global Perspective:

Taking a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens

• Manages Complexity:

Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems

• Nimble Learning:

Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder

• Self-Development:

Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels

• Situational Adaptability:

Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations

• Strategic Mindset:

Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies

• Tech Savvy:

Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications

The application window is anticipated to be closed on June 19th, 2024

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Apply End Date: 06/19/2024

- $200, $300,000.00