Position Purpose:

As the Senior Manager of Cloud Engineering, you will lead the teams that build and operate the platforms, tooling, and cost discipline that let enable every product team at The Home Depot to build, ship, and run in the cloud efficiently and safely. You will own a connected set of responsibilities: the paved-path platform foundations, services, and guardrails that teams build on; the deployment and delivery tooling that makes releases fast, safe, and low-friction; and the cost management and optimization practices that keep cloud spend efficient and sustainable as the business scales. You will champion a paved-path approach that makes the right way the easy way, reducing friction so teams can develop, deploy, and support their applications with less toil. You will partner with our most strategic cloud and tooling vendors to ensure the right capabilities are readily available across the Enterprise, and you will bring an experiment-driven, metrics-informed mindset — including modern AI and agentic workflows — to how the platform evolves. You will partner closely with Platform Reliability Engineering to balance reliability, developer experience, and cost, and you will grow the next generation of cloud engineering talent, leading teams focused on building these capabilities and sharing them across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• 20% Strategy & Planning:
• Works and negotiates with partners on the staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams
• Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
• Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that aligned to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams
• 20% Delivery & Execution:
• Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
• 15% Support & Enablement:
• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
• 45% People:
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to the Technology Director, Sr. Director or Vice President.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6–8 years of relevant work experience, including leading engineering teams
• Mastery of cloud platform engineering on major providers (e.g., GCP, Azure) — compute, networking, storage, IAM, and core platform services
• Mastery of cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) — driving spend visibility, optimization, and sustainable unit economics at scale
• Mastery of modern deployment tooling and progressive delivery — CI/CD pipelines, small-batch releases, and fast, safe deployments (e.g., Spinnaker, TFE)
• Mastery of designing paved-path platforms with an excellent developer experience — intuitive APIs, self-service workflows, and clear, consistent GUIs, CLIs, and documentation
• Proficient in designing platform interaction surfaces (APIs, SDKs, portals) that minimize friction, steps, and support burden for the teams consuming them
• Proficient in using customer feedback, adoption signals, and usage data to continuously improve the experience of building and deploying on the platform
• Proficient in defining and tracking platform adoption and efficiency metrics across a large engineering population — from leading indicators (e.g., paved-path adoption, pipeline coverage) to outcome metrics (e.g., cost per transaction, deployment frequency)
• Proficient in technical communication — strategy documents, architecture reviews, and executive-level updates
• Capable of understanding complex technical and organizational systems quickly
• Experience with delivery and developer-productivity frameworks (e.g., DORA, CSAT)
• Experience applying AI and agentic workflows to accelerate platform and deployment engineering
• Experience managing and growing individual contributors and managers in a professional setting
• Experience managing strategic vendor relationships (cloud providers, tooling platforms), including negotiations
• Experience translating high-level strategy into tactical execution
• Proficiency in supporting a 24x7 retail operation

• Minimum Education:

• 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.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 6

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
• 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
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
• Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
• Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
• Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations