Company Background

Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a leading global service provider of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added solutions. Our Automotive Parts Group operates across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australasia, France, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, while our Industrial Parts Group serves customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australasia. We keep the world moving with a vast network of over 10,700 locations spanning 17 countries supported by more than 63,000 teammates. Learn more at genpt.com.

Position Purpose

Seeking world-class talent to join the world’s leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. Specifically, this role will function as the Distinguished Engineer for AAG (Alliance Automotive Group), a subsidiary of GPC to design and build innovative solutions that spans across EU. Working closely with a highly talented team, you will provide the thought leadership in designing and building a solution that integrates with various ERP systems to power the backend and customer facing digital channels.

This role provides a unique opportunity for a senior technical leader to strategize, architect, govern and lead Genuine Parts Company as a Distinguished Engineer. The focus is to ensure that business strategy and any relevant technology trends are understood, rationalized, and expressed in the processes and systems across the enterprise. This leadership role is also focused on facilitating the conversion of strategies into actions by establishing and leveraging technology paved paths, reference architecture, design patterns and industry best practices. Distinguished Engineers represent the senior technical experts within the organization and have a strong track record of growing and influencing others. They will connect teams to one another in a spirit of collaboration and will champion opportunities to make teams more efficient.

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.  The candidate 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.

The individual will work with senior leadership and other distinguished and principal engineers in a thought leadership role developing and driving technology roadmaps and solutions for cloud, edge and data platforms enabling transformation across all business units. Close collaboration and alignment with infrastructure, network, 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.

Responsibilities

40% – Strategy & Planning:

• Works with the wider organization and enterprise to build the future technology vision for AAG platform modernization interconnecting disparate systems seamlessly

• Stays in front of technology and evaluates new tools & technologies, weighs trade-ups, options, build vs buy etc. to drive a common direction of best practices and standards to lead the path for adoption across the enterprise.

• Builds, owns, and drives the technology roadmap and evolution for the scope of work to align with business priorities and strategy.

50% – Delivery & Execution:

• Provides technical thought leadership and guidance to engineering teams within a domain and across domains.

• Serves as a technical advisor, escalation point and project execution expert to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of initiatives

• Directs the design, architecture and delivery execution for technology systems, platforms, and services to ensure industry best practices and standards are met

• Works with vendors and partners on the successful planning and implementation of critical tooling and platforms

• Continuously matures overall DevSecOps capabilities to drive efficiencies, end to end automation, quality, security, scalability, reliability, and observability of the overall platform

• Reviews, documents, and ensures all technical governance and change control is adhered to

• Understands and articulates the value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners

• Leads and participates in wider review boards to drive consistency in technology decisions and choices across the enterprise to build highly scalable, reliable, and secure platforms and services

• Other duties as assigned

10% – Team & Talent:

• Partners across peers, leaders, and other domain experts to evangelize and drive thought leadership, innovation and encourage collaboration across teams

• Lead through connected conversations to create a wide sphere of influence

• Links teams across the organization who are facing similar challenges to enable consistent solutions

• Coaches, mentors, grows, and advises other domain experts and engineers in the organization (including direct reports, if applicable)

• Participates in and leads learning activities within the organization

• Presents at and attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies and concepts

Desired Qualifications & Experiences

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering fields, or equivalent experience

• 12+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering & technology

• Professionally recognized by peers and leaders in the organization for significant expertise within specific domains

• Mastery of problem-solving innovation, vision, judgement, and technology leadership

• Proven experience in delivering large scale enterprise solutions, building blueprints and technology roadmaps aligning with business transformational initiatives, strategies and priorities.

• Deep and broad knowledge of current and emerging technologies that affect the business

• Ability to establish and drive adoption of technology direction, industry best practices and standards

• Strong experience designing and building complex integration platforms interconnecting hybrid platforms (SAAS, PAAS and onprem) and applications

• Basic understanding of ERP modules and strong experience building interfaces to one or more ERP systems (D365, SAP or Oracle Fusion)

• Extensive working knowledge of transactional systems, OLTP databases, NoSQL and cross platform replication techniques

• Preferred experience working with multi-master transactional systems like CouchDB or CockroachDB

• Preferred experience working on atleast 2 public cloud platforms (Azure & GCP preferred) and enabling interoperability between them

• Strong understanding of event driven architectures and experience implementing them at scale

• Good working knowledge and understanding of BI analytical tools. Basic understanding of AI/ML technologies and its applicability to drive business value.

• Track record of noteworthy innovation and execution that shaped the technology direction of an organization and/or the industry.

• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly

• Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with a specific domain

Location
Krakow/Hybrid

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