Principal Enterprise Architect

**About Lowe’s**

**Job Summary**
**Principal Enterprise Architect**
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.
- 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
- 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

**Preferred Qualifications**
Master's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field
- 8 years of IT experience developing and implementing systems within an organization
- 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._