JOB DESCRIPTION: Position is based in Charlotte, NC some teleworking may be permitted. Travel to Lowe’s offices may be required. 

Translates complex cross-functional business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions; partners with Product Team to understand business needs and functional specifications. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs; evaluates project deliverables to ensure they meet specifications and architectural standards. Guides application and software development teams in the design and build of complex solutions and ensures that teams are in alignment with the architecture blueprint, standards, target state architecture, and strategies. Coordinates, executes, and participates in Component Integration (CIT) scenarios, Systems Integration Testing (SIT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to identify application errors and to ensure quality software deployment. Participates and coaches others in all software development end-to-end product lifecycle phases by applying and sharing an in-depth understanding of complex company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls. Has solid grasp of software design patterns and approaches; understands application level software architecture; makes technical trade-off decisions at application level. Automates and simplifies team development, test, and operations processes; develops detailed architecture plans for large scale enterprise architecture projects and drives the plans to fruition. Solves complex architecture/design and business problems; solutions are extensible; works to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks. Provides mentoring and guidance to more junior level engineers; may provide feedback and direction on specific engineering tasks.

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Job requires a Bachelor's Degree* in Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of experience in any job title/occupation involving software development or a related field. *Employer will accept single degree or combination of degrees, diplomas and/or professional experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree.

Must have prior experience in: 

•    5 years of experience in:
•    Back-End development technologies (Scala, Groovy, JAVA, J2EE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, AJAX, Spring IOC, Spring MVC, Spring AOP, Spring REST, Spring Tool Suite, Eclipse, IntelliJ);
•    Deployment Server Tools and technologies (Ansible, Tomcat, IBM Web Sphere, Web Logic);
•    Database Management Technologies Tools (Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, DBeaver, PGAdmin, Oracle, DB2, SQL, Hibernate, JPA);
•    Source Control and Project Management Tools (GIT Hub, Rational Clear case, Clear Quest, SVN, CVS, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence);
•    Containerized build and deployment tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift);
•    Reactive Framework Development Technologies (RxJava, Spring Reactive);
•    Front-End development technologies (Node JS, JSF, JSP, Spring MVC, HTML, CSS, AJAX);
•    In-Memory data management, data store and distributed computing technologies (Redis and Hazlecast);
•    Microservices, Web Services API Development (REST, SOAP, Apache CXF, SOAP UI);
•    Build, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Tools (Jenkins, SBT Build, Ant, Maven, Gradle);
•    Distributed Event Streaming development and Messaging technologies (Apache Kafka, JMS); and
•    Incident and Application Defect Monitoring Tools (Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, Kibana, Log Insight).

REQ# 4505932

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.