Job Description

About Lowe's

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Bengaluru, Lowe's India develops innovative technology products and solutions and delivers business capabilities to provide the best omnichannel experience for Lowe's customers. Lowe's India employs over 4,200 associates across technology, analytics, merchandising, supply chain, marketing, finance and accounting, product management and shared services. Lowe's India actively supports the communities it serves through programs focused on skill-building, sustainability and safe homes. For more information, visit, www.lowes.co.in.

Job Summary

Principal Enterprise Architect

The primary purpose of this role is to design and partner for cross?functional solutions for highly complex requirements while ensuring that applications work in concert across Lowe's.

This includes leading or architecting 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 software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures.

In addition, as an architect, the role should be responsible to make data driven decisions for build vs buy solutions for our IT assets.

This individual has a deep knowledge and understanding of Software and uses this insight to support Technology senior leadership.

This includes partnering with Enterprise Architects / Distinguished Engineers / Other Principal Engineers to discuss long?term Technology strategy and providing objective information and data to help inform and drive critical Technology decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Looking for passionate and hands on engineers who has experience in driving and leading state of the art technology innovation in building the Lowe's home improvement platform vision.
• Keys to success include but not limited to technology innovation, problem solving, great technical and engineering leadership, and excellent communication
• Principal engineer or architect should have deep expertise in front end experience technologies including micro front-ends and module federation.


The architect role will additionally be responsible for creating solutions, architecting / partnering decisions for data and analytics as well.

• Provides consultation on business requirements and functional specifications in logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions; facilitates the transition to high level design and supports the project lifecycle with input from executive leadership where needed
• Contributes to and leverages the technical direction for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight and guidance for the design and coding of component?based applications.
• Serves as a unbiased technical expert for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of business and enterprise software solutions by leveraging partnerships with technology teams and business leaders to resolve escalated issues
• As Principal engineer, Offers expertise in troubleshooting complex systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) for cross?functional application initiatives Provides consultation to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed throughout the product lifecycle with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures
• Has detailed knowledge of software architecture; makes technical trade?offs between short?term team needs and long?term business needs; determines how to apply and/or reuse technologies across different areas of the company
• Sets the standard for engineering, test, and operational excellence, drives best practices across organizations; builds proof?of?concepts (POC) and proof?of?technologies (POT)
• Solves significantly complex or endemic problems; architectures are exemplary in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, cost? effectiveness Mentors and advises others, sharing an in?depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls Reviews the development or modification of highly complex, enterprise level software solutions Develops and validates highly complex software design prototypes, ensuring software designs adhere to company architecture standards
• Provides expert insight into best practices for delivering successful validation and testing of highly complex software solutions; advises on best approach for unique and challenging testing


scenarios Provides expert recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for software solution designs and identifies specific interfaces and methods required to support software solutions

• Provides input into departmental budget forecasting and allocation decisions
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field
• 10 years of experience in software development or a related field
• 8 years of experience in database technologies
• 8 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field

• 8 years of IT experience developing and implementing systems within an organization
• 8 years of experience working with defect or incident tracking software 8 years of experience working with application and integration middleware6 years of experience working with an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework
• 6 years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports
• 8 years of experience working with source code control systems Experience working with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools
• Having experience in data and analytics is indeed a very big plus.
•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.•