Manager Data and Engineering

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The role requires critical thought leadership focused on developing analytical processes, tools, and strategy for driving improved performance throughout the Home Services. This role is responsible for managing an organization that spans a wide-range of functional and technical skillsets. This role helps to drive analytical initiatives to tangible results meeting and exceeding Home Services operational and financial targets. The role requires considerable analytical and technical skills, ability to effectively describe those processes to leadership, and successfully drive implementation.   The role requires strong partnership & communication skills with operational teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% - Drives Results - Provides technical leadership to team throughout the project lifecycle and validates solution designs. Drives collaboration with cross functional teams to support new features and benefits of solution implementation.
• 10% - Optimizes Work Processes - Focuses efforts on continuous improvement to provide the best experience to stakeholders. Documents and shares best practices & knowledge for new solutions, and advocates for new solutions implementation.
• 40% - Plans & Aligns - Advises stakeholders with recommendations for solving technical challenges, and roadmap solutions for strategy execution.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position reports to the Sr Manager, Marketing
• This position has 2+ direct reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% 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 18 years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to guide the strategy for BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, PowerBI) to ensure data models support effective reporting (hands-on visualization skills are a plus but not required).

• Working knowledge of presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint)

• Experience architecting scalable solutions using DBT core, Big Query, CI/CD, Kubeflow (Vertex AI), Airflow (Cloud Composer)
• Understanding of generative tools and workflows (MCP, A2A, LLM ops)
• Knowledge of advanced mathematical/statistical techniques as applied to AI/ML workflows
• Ability to draw accurate conclusions from financial documentation
• Demonstrated project management skills (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Proven ability to translate complex technical architectures into clear business value for non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• M.S. in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, supply chain or related quantitative field
• Work experience with several RDBMS and NoSQL database systems
• Work experience with Salesforce CRM

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:

• 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.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• 8

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• 2

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• 3

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Decision Quality
• Collaborates
• Drives Engagement
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Plans and Aligns
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Develops Talent
• Drives Results