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About Lowe’s

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving
approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022
sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where
Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000
associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through
programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next
generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

About Lowe’s India: At Lowe's India, we are the enablers who help create an engaging
customer experience for our $97 billion home improvement business at Lowe's. Our 4000+
associates work across technology, analytics, business operations, finance & accounting,
product management, and shared services. We leverage new technologies and find innovative
methods to ensure that Lowe's has a competitive edge in the market. To know more about
Lowe's India, visit Lowes.co.in

Job Summary
• Supply Chain & Inventory Replenishment Data & ML engineering team is responsible for
building data, analytics, ML products which provide visibility across Lowes supply chain,
identify bottlenecks and enhance the efficiency of supply chain and inventory
replenishment planning. The team is going through a major tech transformation with
the adoption of new cloud technologies.

• We are looking for an engineering leader to join the team as a principal data engineer
and lead the technical transformation. The primary purpose of this role is to design
cross-functional solutions for highly complex requirements while ensuring that
applications work in concert across Lowe's. This includes leading the development,
configuration, or modification of new solutions for the business and resolving
architectural or design deficiencies. In addition, this role provides consultation to help
ensure new and existing Data, BI or Platform solutions are developed with insight into
industry best practices, strategies, and architectures.

Main Responsibilities
• Work with Directors/Sr. Directors to define technical roadmap, assess current state
products, identify tech debt and work with Engineering Directors to prioritize and deliver
the same. Plan improvements and features with a 6-9 months view.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for the
department. Be the a point of escalation for engineering teams facing complex technical
challenges
• Collaborate and create technical proposals cutting across several teams and their
engineering work, support team members
• Work with Product Management to understand business problems and define technical
solution blueprint for key products. Collaborate with enterprise architects to ensure that
solutions are aligned to enterprise architecture strategy
• The principal engineer is expected to be hands on and deliver proof of concept rapidly to
prove the viability of the tech solution, create reference architecture for analytical and
ML products. Mentor team members to build the solution with right level of engineering
rigor
• Work with data scientists, understand currently deployed ML products and develop
application frameworks to run and operate ML products at scale with proper guard rails
• Enable the department to adopt new technologies in the data space while working closely
with tech leadership and enterprise architecture group. Proposes initial technical
solutions which supports architectural changes that solve scaling and performance
problems.
• Rapidly gain expertise of current application stack and products running in production.
Ability to identify and support the team to during major production incidents and fixing
the problem. Knowledgeable in all technologies & products within the Department
• Proactively identify opportunities to reuse or generalize existing services and product
features. Avoids duplication of effort by encouraging collaboration.

Educational Qualifications
• Bachelor's/Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, CIS, or related field (or
equivalent work experience in a related field)
• 12-15 years of experience in product development with 5+ years hands on experience in
platform or product engineering with Big Data technology stack

Required Engineering Experience


• Must have product development background and demonstrated experience of building
2-3 enterprise products end to end and successfully delivering to production
• Demonstrated experience in data platform/infrastructure engineering, leading design
and development with atleast 2 major platform/infrastructure projects successfully
delivered to production
• Experience with systems integration, best practices around integration patterns, event
driven architecture
• Ability to collaborate and influence technical decisions
• Retail industry domain experience is a plus
• Expertise in Java/Scala/Python, SQL, Scripting, Hadoop (Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Map Reduce),
Spark (Spark Streaming, MLib), Kafka or equivalent Cloud Big data components
• Experience with Google/AWS/Azure. Experience with Google Cloud stack (GCS, Big
Query, Dataproc, Vertex AI etc.) would be an advantage

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