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 tradeoff 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 bottleneck. 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:
• 4 years of experience in:
• Development of high availability, fault tolerant, and low-latency backend services;
• System design with Distributed Architecture;
• Distributed Cache Systems;
• Development of RESTful services using Spring Cloud Stack;
• Distributed NoSQL database systems - Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Couchbase DB and Redis Cache; and
• Integration testing and performance benchmarking.
• 3 years of experience in:
• Data processing frameworks- Apache Spark;
• Pub-sub and streaming systems- Kafka, Message routing and integration framework - Apache Camel;
• Event driven computing and workflow orchestration tools- Google Cloud Functions and Google Composer; and
• Service and Container Orchestration tools- Helm chart, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.

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.