**Position Purpose:** We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of engineers building the foundational customer identity, payments, preferences, and privacy platforms that power The Home Depot's omnichannel experience - serving 20M+ Pro and DIY customers across web, mobile, and in-store. In this role, you will own end-to-end engineering delivery across four interconnected enterprise platforms at scale - managing people, architecture decisions, and quarterly commitments in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment. You will partner daily with Product and Principal Engineers to shape roadmap, align capacity, and execute against strategic priorities. As the Engineering Manage, you will have a direct impact on systems that touch every customer transaction and identity interaction across all selling platforms with an AI-first engineering culture. **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:** + 6-8 years of engineering leadership experience, with a track record of growing engineers and delivering complex, distributed systems at enterprise scale + Deep fluency in AI-augmented engineering - you actively use and champion tools like GitHub Copilot, Gemini Enterprise, and Claude, and you hold your team accountable to measurable AI adoption + Comfortable with agentic workflows, MCP integrations, and responsible AI governance in production environments + Strong foundation in modern backend engineering: Java, Spring Boot, GCP, Cassandra, distributed search (Solr, Elasticsearch, MongoDB) + Experience driving platform reliability, observability, cloud cost optimization, and security compliance across large-scale microservices + Ability to lead through ambiguity, manage cross-team dependencies, and drive change across a large engineering organization + **Minimum Education:** + The knowledge, ski