Lead Engineer – Software – Product MDM

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 lead of a newly formed team of engineers to build the next generation commerce platforms for 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 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:

• Leads and guides a team of Senior Engineers and Engineers from a technical standpoint.
• Leads High Level and Low Level Design around feature solutions
• Performs Code review of every production ready component.
• Guides the team around best practices and standards from a software engineering standpoint.
• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Accountable for supporting streamlining the complexity of the current Product MDM platform and reducing the technical debt
• Participates in all phases of the integration development lifecycle, including unit testing and ongoing support
• Collaborate with Architects and other Software Engineering resources in designing and implementing integrated, enterprise solutions.
• Participate in implementing the technology platforms architecture to support and build out the new commerce-related capabilities needed for the unified commerce strategy
• Act as subject matter expert (SME) in assigned business and technical domains with an excellent understanding of business and system processes, inter relationships/dependencies/interactions among system components and how things work end to end.
• Employ best practices around observability, monitoring, and system resilience
• Guide and act as a resource to other engineers on the team
• 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 Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of software development experience, preferably with high volume E-Commerce or online Retail services.
• Expertise in Stibo STEP PIM solutions as a Lead with hands-on design, development and configuration experience
• Well versed with system and technical design principles, performant coding practices ensuring security requirements are not compromised for functionality and/or performance
• Demonstrated ability to simplify a complex solution into discrete components to parallelize development efforts reducing the overall time to market
• Experience with laying out a go-live plan at the conceptual stage, analyzing the pros and cons of multiple options.
• Experience in destructive testing methodologies and tools.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• This is an engineering position, and in our team, we believe in “always production-ready” code.
• This job requires 70% coding or coding-related tasks every day.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies:

• Action-Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people

Preferrable to Have:

• Experience in STIBO 10.x version
• Proficient with Java, J2EE, Spring, Microservices and exposure to standard API based design and API gateways.
• Experience with running workloads on one of the Public Clouds such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, with experience with container-based technologies.
• Prior experience working with Continuous Integration and deployment in a DevOps oriented product development environment

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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.