About the role
With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose:
As a Manager, AI Platform Engineering, you will lead the development and evolution of our enterprise Generative AI platform, enabling scalable, secure, and high-impact AI capabilities across the organization. This role combines technical delivery leadership with strategic thinking, overseeing a team of engineers to build and operate GenAI platform services, agentic workflows, and multi-model orchestration.
You will partner with product, data, legal, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to translate AI use case needs into scalable, reusable platform capabilities that drive enterprise-wide adoption and efficiency. You will ensure alignment with security, privacy, and governance standards while enabling successful delivery and commercialization at scale. In addition, you will collaborate with strategic vendors and internal platform teams to accelerate innovation and support a growing portfolio of AI solutions.
This role is critical to scaling AI adoption across the enterprise, balancing rapid innovation with operational excellence and responsible AI practices.
Key Responsibilities:
30% 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
Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
10% Support & Enablement:
Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
Provides application support for software running in production
Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
50% 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)
10% Learning:
Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
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 Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.
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:
8+ years of related work experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years focused on AI/ GenAI projects for large enterprises.
Experience with modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), with a strong understanding of deploying and operating scalable, production-grade systems.
Experience designing or building AI agents and agent-based workflows, including orchestration of LLMs, tools, and external systems in production environments.
Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, and software engineering concepts, demonstrated through recent certifications or project experience
Proven track record of managing complex technical projects and leading junior engineering teams
Deep experience with ad tech, streaming media platforms, and digital content delivery
Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello, Monday)
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, GCP) for scalable AI system deployment
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong communication skills with ability to explain AI and software engineering concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Knowledge of privacy and security considerations in AI applications
Understanding of AI ethics and responsible AI practices
Strong leadership and mentoring abilities
Excellent interpersonal and team collaboration skills
Ability to think strategically about AI applications and their business impact
Proactive and self-motivated with a passion for emerging AI technologies and software engineering practices
Adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving AI and software development landscape.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
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:
5
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
Benefits offered include health care benefits, 401K, ESPP, paid time off, and success sharing bonus. For a full list of the various benefits The Home Depot offers, visit .
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