**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 engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams and large-scale technology initiatives + Proven experience leading high-performing engineering organizations delivering cloud-native, highly scalable, secure, and resilient software solutions + Strong expertise designing, developing, and operating Java-based applications, microservices, and REST APIs supporting high-volume, mission-critical systems + Experience leading engineering teams responsible for Order Processing, Commerce, Supply Chain, Store Systems, or Selling platforms + Demonstrated success driving AI-enabled software development practices, engineering automation, and engineering productivity initiatives + Experience implementing Machine Learning-enabled business capabilities within enterprise-scale applications + Strong understanding of Spec-Driven Development, modern software engineering methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Agile delivery frameworks + Expertise with cloud-native architectures, containerization technologies, and public cloud platforms + Advanced proficiency with relation