Senior Engineering Manager

at  Genuine Parts Company

ABOUT GPC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY CENTER

Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is a leading global service organization specializing in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. GPC’s commitment to innovation and technology is evident in the GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow, established in 2022. This center serves as a hub for research and development, supporting GPC’s digital transformation efforts. The center’s team of highly skilled IT engineers focuses on developing advanced technologies and solutions that enhance GPC’s operations and growth. Their work spans across various areas, including e-commerce and data platforms, supply chain solutions, selling systems, and cyber security. Learn more at genpt.com.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCES:

• 10+ years’ experience in software engineering delivery (including at least 4+ years in leadership role)
• Consistent track record of leadership, teamwork, and delivering high impact results
• Extensive experience building enterprise grade systems/applications supporting business priorities
• Experience managing 25+ FTE team of internal and extended delivery resources.
• Experience in leading leaders.
• Ability to effectively share technical information, communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of business.
• Ability to attract, motivate and retain world-class IT talent.
• Able to juggle multiple projects - can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize time and communicate timeline to team members.
• Ability and desire to take product/project ownership
• Experience in leading and building scalable eCommerce domain microservices.Must also have broad and deep technical understanding of the technologies in this field, including but not limited to:
• Experience with programming languages- Java, Data structures.
• Modern System Architecture Patterns.
• Experience in designing event driven mechanisms, publish/subscribe models.
• Experience with cloud computing on at-least one of major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure).
• Experience working with modern SQL / noSQL Databases.

POSITION PURPOSE

This is an engineering leadership role with responsibility for implementing the technology strategy and execution for GPC’s unified commerce platforms.
This individual must be a technologist & engineer at heart and be comfortable in understanding the technology direction and being hands on with the execution of the strategy. She/he 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 legacy supply chain technologies at scale.
Close collaboration and alignment with a wide variety of both internal stakeholders and external vendors 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. Ability to attract, retain, and develop engineering talent will be critical.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partnering with the cross-functional GPC team, implement the strategy and roadmap for modernizing the Inventory and Shipping domain and associated platforms.
• Implement the technology platforms architecture and execute on roadmap to support build out the new commerce-related capabilities needed for the unified commerce strategy
• Overall engineering accountability for the inventory and shipping commerce platforms
• Responsible for delivery and support of the platform
• Responsible for simplifying the complexity of current inventory & shipping platforms and reducing the technical debt and total cost of ownership.
• Lead multiple pods and manage engineering managers.
• Partner with peer leaders to accelerate and embed agile methodologies across the organization to increase customer-backed problem solving, to increase pace of solution delivery, to accelerate innovation and to enhance cross-functional collaboration.
• Recruit, manage, and motivate a team of engineers and Engineering managers to develop best-in-class solutions.