Principal Engineer - Software - Product
Company: Genuine Parts Company
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: March 21, 2023
Job Description:
Company Background: Genuine Parts Company ("GPC" or the
"Company"), founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a
leading specialty distributor engaged in the distribution of
automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added
services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses
with more than 10,000 locations across the world. GPC has
approximately 50,000 global employees. The Company has operations
in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand,
Indonesia, Singapore, France, the U.K., Germany, Poland, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and China. -
Position Purpose: Seeking world-class talent to join the world's
leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts
and value-added services operating 5,500+ locations and servicing
more than 20,000 locations in the U.S and Canada. Specifically,
this role will function as the Principal Engineer of a newly formed
team of Engineers to build the next generation commerce platforms
at GPC. - Working with a highly talented team, you'll play a key
role to build and run one of the world's largest automotive and
industrial replacement parts operations. - -This is an engineering
leadership role with responsibility for enabling cloud
transformation and execution for GPC's unified commerce platforms.
-This individual must be a technologist & engineer at heart and be
comfortable in enabling new technology and being hands on with the
execution of the strategy. - They must exhibit a deep understanding
of modern technology stack and agile delivery models, demonstrated
focus on customer experience, and must have a proven track record
of modernizing technologies. -Close collaboration and alignment
with business teams, application development teams and security
will be required. - As such, exceptional abilities in building and
maintaining strong working relationships and organizational savvy
will be required. - High level communication and presentation
skills are required. Ability to attract, retain, and develop
engineering talent will be critical. -
Responsibilities: -
- Technical responsibility of architecture roadmap and vision of
the Product Domain
- Lead the development and build out of the unified commerce
systems for the entire domain
- Reviews business context for solutions to company challenges as
well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution,
recommending potential options, selecting the most optimal
solution, and the development of a roadmap for the selected
solution
- Initiate both group and one-on-one meetings with senior
management in order to gain a clear understanding of business
drivers and functional requirements
- Lead design and architecture discussions for IT platforms
engaging with other staff engineers, engineering teams across
different business units to ensure secure and scalable
solutions
- Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate
solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options
incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and
total cost of ownership
- Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and
collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the
formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures
- Provides oversight on delivery to ensure industry best
practices, standards, automation, quality, timeliness, operational
readiness, continuous improvement and cost-effective solutions
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to staff / lead
engineers and the technical team within a domain
- Other duties as assigned Location:
- GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta
office.
- We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees
to work remotely -
Desired Qualifications & Experiences: -
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering fields, or
equivalent experience
- 12+ years' experience in software engineering & technology
- Proven technical leadership and skills in creating, leading and
implementing Data Management, Integration & Reporting Solutions for
large enterprise scale applications.
- Experience with Product MDM, Enterprise Data Strategy, Data
Integrations, Data Architecture, Data Reporting/Analytics,
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- Working knowledge of various types of database management
systems and approaches to solve OLTP and OLAP workloads (including
but not limited to traditional RDBMS systems, NoSQL, BigData and
modern cloud native data warehousing solutions)
- Extensive knowledge around various data integration patterns
against databases (inbound and outbound) to solve for real-time,
and batch workloads
- Experience with Data Lake & Integration platforms, particularly
SaaS solutions like Snowflake or Google BigQuery is a plus.
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Comfortable with ambiguity and time spent outside of comfort
zone acquiring new skills
- Technically creative and open-minded
- Experience in enterprise level software development experience
(non-academic) with demonstrable experience in Java, REST, SOAP,
Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, NoSQL,
Containerization and Security
- Experience in building and operating applications running on
Public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) including DevSecOps
practices
- Must possess experience running high throughput low latency end
user-facing microservices
Keywords: Genuine Parts Company, Atlanta , Principal Engineer - Software - Product, IT / Software / Systems , Atlanta, Georgia
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