[Remote] Distinguished Engineer - Orange Apron Media

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, and they are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as a technical expert and mentor within the organization. The role involves shaping technology roadmaps, collaborating with senior leaders, and mentoring other domain experts to enhance team efficiency and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Works with senior leaders to shape the go-forward vision for the organization from a specific domain perspective
• Works with vendors and partners on the successful strategy, planning, and implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Participates in and influences development of technology roadmaps across the enterprise
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Drives thought leadership and innovation within the organization
• Fields questions from product, project and support teams
• Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technologies with teams
• Monitors tools and leads conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, relationships, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used in other organizations
• Teaches, mentors, grows, and advises other domain experts in the organization (including direct reports, if applicable)
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Works with vendors and partners on the successful planning and implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Understands and articulates the value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex challenges
• Participates in and leads learning activities within the organization
• Connects teams facing similar challenges and problems to encourage consistency
• Presents at and attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies and concepts
• Capable of jumping into a variety of teams to resolve issues
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports (if applicable)
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback (if applicable)
• Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent (applicable if incumbent has direct reports)

Skills

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
• 8 years of work experience
• 12+ years of progressive engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Distinguished Engineer, Principal Architect, or Director-level technical leader overseeing large-scale, complex enterprise architectures
• Deep technical domain expertise in building and scaling high-throughput Marketing Technology stacks, Retail Media Networks (RMNs), and omnichannel loyalty platforms within a multi-billion $ retail or e-commerce ecosystem
• Demonstrated experience leading an organization through the adoption, scaling, and governance of AI/ML technologies (including GenAI, predictive personalization, and automated content generation) to drive customer engagement and ad-yield optimization
• Proven success as a people leader managing senior technical talent, with the unique ability to inspire, mentor, and elevate a team of high-performing Senior Principal Engineers
• Expert-level mastery of enterprise architecture frameworks, governance, and industry best practices, ensuring decentralized engineering teams build scalable, resilient, and compliant solutions that align with broader corporate standards
• Advanced knowledge of Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), data clean rooms, identity resolution, and real-time data streaming pipelines, combined with a strict adherence to modern data privacy regulations and security guardrails
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native architectures (GCP, Azure, AWS) and microservices capable of supporting millions of daily active users and processing massive datasets
• Exceptional communication skills with a track record of bridging the gap between deeply technical engineering teams and executive business stakeholders (such as Product, Marketing, and Retail Operations) to turn business vision into technical reality

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