Échelle salariale : $110,000 - $135,000

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Are you someone who thrives on helping others succeed, enjoys making an impact, and takes pride in guiding customers to the right solutions for their projects? If you’re also naturally curious and eager to keep learning, consider starting or growing your career with us at The Home Depot.

Position Overview: 
The Lead Software Developer is responsible for the full scope of activities required within the software development life cycle, including over seeing the oversight and successful delivery of software solutions. You will work collaboratively with Architects to make high-level design choices, dictate technical standards, and proactively identify opportunities to improve system architecture. The Lead Software Developer will provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers and help them in developing modules and solutions. You will work closely with other Lead Developers, Architects,  Software developers, Business Analysts, and Quality Analysts amongst others in a highly collaborative environment where change is constant. 
 
Key Responsibilities: 
Software Development Life Cycle: 
• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives and envision system features and functionality 
• Develop well-designed, maintainable, testable, clean and efficient code which is optimized and scalable, while conducting software analysis, debugging, and comprehensive testing activities 
• Review, test, and debug team members' code to ensure that best practices are followed and to maintain high-quality code standards across the team 
• Build solutions using Home Depot preferred databases ensuring their stability, reliability, and performance 
• Ensure application achieves the performance, quality, and responsiveness as per the defined SLOs 
• Ensure that the development team follows best practices in coding, testing, and documentation 
• Lead efforts for code reviews and ensure the overall quality of the codebase 
• Provide guidance and oversight by ensuring that code, configurations, and technical issues or solutions are thoroughly documented to support future reference and auditing needs 
• Take end-to-end ownership of technical delivery, ensuring features are deployed on time, within scope, and meet business requirements.  

• Take a proactive role in maintaining high standards for documentation to streamline development processes and knowledge sharing across the team 
 
Collaboration & Communication: 
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features, and ensure solutions meet requirements 
• Serve as the key point of contact for project managers, business analysts, and other departments to ensure the development aligns with the broader business goals 
 
Problem Solving & Technical Decision-Making: 
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems 

• Pioneer the adoption of AI coding assistants and automation tools within the development team. Leverage these technologies to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC), reduce boilerplate coding, and ensure higher quality, bug-free deliverables. 
• Make critical technical decisions related to the development process, tools, and technologies used for building and maintaining SAP solutions or other software applications 
 
Team Leadership & Mentorship: 
• Provide technical direction and guidance to the development team, guiding them in day-to-day activities, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring the timely delivery of development milestones 
• Provide mentorship to developers on technical skills, career development, and best practices 
• Organize knowledge-sharing sessions 

• Conduct comprehensive code reviews to enforce code quality, security, performance, and THD engineering standards. 

 
Architecture Oversight 
• Partner directly with Architects to translate high-level system designs into actionable development tasks, guide the engineering team through implementation, and facilitate final code/design reviews with Architecture to ensure strict alignment.  
• Make high-level design choices and dictate technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms 
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve system architecture, scalability, and performance, ensuring the application can grow to meet the needs our customers and associates. 
 
Continuous Improvement: 
• Advocate for continuous improvement in the development process, tooling, and techniques used by the team 
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review 
 
Project & Risk Management: 
• Oversee the progress of projects, ensuring that developers are on track and deadlines are met 
• Handle resource allocation and issue resolution within the team 
• Identify risks early in the development process and propose solutions to mitigate those risks 
 
Competencies: 
• Action Oriented 
• Collaborates 
• Communicates Effectively 
• Customer Focus 
• Drives Results 
• Manages Conflict 
 
Skills: 
All lead Developer skills: 
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills 
• Strong written and oral communication skills 
• Proven leadership skills, with the ability to manage a team and provide technical guidance 
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum) 
• Strong collaboration skills, and experience working cross-functionally 
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction 
• Must be willing to learn new technologies and programming languages and /or concepts 
 
 
 
Java skills: 
• Experience with building scalable and resilient microservices using Java and Spring Boot leveraging various design principles such as 12 factor app, cloud native app, API first development 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL, Redis, BigTable, and GCP storage solutions such as Cloud Storage, BigQuery 
• Experience with leading implementation of new systems or replatform of existing systems 
• Experience writing clean code that is modular and follows clean code principles such as SOLID 
• Experience with Spring Security and SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect 
• Experience with batch and stream processing frameworks such as Apache Beam, Spark 
• Experience with automated testing tools (such as RestAssured, Cucumber) and performance testing tools (such as Locust, Jmeter) 
• Experience with open source system and performance monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus 
• Familiarity with cloud platforms preferably GCP and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) 
• Experience with development and productivity tools such as BitBucket, Jira, and GitHub Copilot 
• Experience with documenting design using diagrams such as C4 model, activity diagram 
  
Travel Requirements: 
• Travel to SSC Toronto on a regular basis 
 
Physical Requirements: 
• Extended sitting 
• Repetitive tasks 
• Operating a computer and other technology 
 
Working Conditions: 
• Working in an office setting: computer work, camera on virtual meetings 
• Work overnights and weekends on occasion to support system upgrades and project deployments 
 
Minimum Education: 
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience 
 
Minimum Years of Work Experience: 
• 7 to 10 years of relevant work experience. 
 
Minimum Leadership Experience: 
• N/A 
 
Certifications: 
• N/A 
 
Other Requirements/Assets: 
Java skills: 
• Understanding of building solutions leveraging event-driven and streaming architecture   
 
Frontend Angular skills: 
• Experience working with various charting libraries like High Charts, Google Charts, amCharts or other