Principal Engineer – Supply Chain

Company Background:

Genuine Parts Company (“GPC” or the “Company”), founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses with more than 10,000 locations across the world. GPC has approximately 50,000 global employees. The Company has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, France, the U.K., Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and China.

Position Purpose :

The role of the Principal Engineer, Supply chain 4-walls is to architect, and design new solutions on Supply Chain applications that are both on-prem and in Cloud. This role would also need to be able to provide path to migration of on-prem Applications into Google cloud in terms of architecture. The role will also help in providing security guidance on on-prem as well as Google Cloud Applications. Manhattan Associates WMOS/Active WMS experience is desired.

Responsibilities:

• Technical responsibility of architecture roadmap and vision of the Supply chain solutions and cloud security systems.
• Design and Lead the Supply Chain Warehouse Management engineering solutions, working with Vendor Partners, business partners, Security, Infrastructure, Product and the Engineering teams
• Reviews business context for Database solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, selecting the most optimal solution, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.
• Initiate both group and one-on-one meetings with senior management in order to gain a clear understanding of business drivers and security functional requirements.
• Lead design and architecture discussions for IT platforms engaging with other staff engineers, Principal Engineers, and Engineering teams across different business units to ensure secure and scalable solutions.
• Direct the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
• Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures.
• Provides oversight on delivery to ensure industry best practices, standards, automation, quality, timeliness, operational readiness, continuous improvement and cost-effective solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to staff / lead engineers and the technical team within a domain.
• Provides technical leadership in transition from legacy Warehouse Management Systems into modern WMS solutions with Active WMS
• Other duties as assigned.

Location:

• GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta office.
• We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work a hybrid remote schedule.

Desired Qualifications & Experiences:

• Degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience
• 10+ years’ experience as an architect/Principal
• 10+ years’ experience in designing WMS solutions or similar roles
• 10+ years’ experience in large-scale RDBMS or Google BigQuery
• Experienced in Python, shell scripts, SQL, and PL/SQL scripting
• Experienced in Change & Release process, GitHub and CI/CD solutions.
• Experience in on-prem and public cloud platforms
• Experienced in security and Sarbanes-Oxley audits
• Experienced in process reviews, continuous improvement, automation, and toil elimination
• Experienced in high availability (HA), high transaction volume environments, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery
• Strong background in full-lifecycle support across multiple platforms or languages
• Ability to interact with tech/non-tech teams in Infrastructure, Network, Development, Product team and Business Partners.
• Experience in analyzing and recommending solutions for production issues.
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (STRIIM, Kafka, Pub/Sub) is a plus
• Excellent technical documentation and communication skills with the ability to articulate business requirements into new technologies.
• Detail-oriented with effective time management skills to facilitate unplanned projects and interruptions
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationships across multiple cross-functional teams
• Comfortable with ambiguity and time spent outside of comfort zone acquiring new skills
• Strong customer service skills with high level of professionalism
• Self-motivated and can work with minimal supervision