With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose:
Distinguished Engineers are recognized as experts in one or more domains within Home Depot and across the industry. They represent the senior technical experts within the organization and have a strong track record of growing and influencing others. Distinguished Engineers will connect teams to one another in a spirit of collaboration and will champion opportunities to make teams more efficient.
As a Distinguished Engineer, you will be responsible helping to shape the go-forward direction of the organization; working with senior leaders, vendors, and partners to influence technology roadmaps and the adoption of new technologies across the enterprise. In addition, you will teach, mentor, and grow other domain experts within the organization.
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
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