Principal Software Engineer

Dollar General; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dollar General is seeking a seasoned architect to define and drive the WMS architecture strategy for enterprise-scale warehouse systems. You will lead design discussions, mentor teams, and collaborate with business and product leads to prioritize capabilities and investments.

You will guide cross-functional architecture forums, ensure performance and security, and align technology with business goals across multiple development teams.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate highly complex technical information to various stakeholders both verbally and in writing.
• Proactively advises Product Owners of developments and advancement in technology that can impact business operations.
• Experienced leader with proven capability to grow talent and partner with other disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the long-term architecture roadmap for Warehouse Management Systems.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure warehouse solutions supporting distribution center operations.
• Provide technical leadership across inbound, outbound, inventory, labor management, slotting, replenishment, and fulfillment processes.
• Lead architecture reviews and approve solution designs across multiple initiatives.
• Drive modernization efforts including cloud transformation and microservices adoption.
• Mentor solution architects, engineers, and technical leads.

Job description

Duties & Responsibilities:

WMS Architecture Strategy

• Define and maintain the long-term architecture roadmap for Warehouse Management Systems.
• Develop enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, and best practices for warehouse technology.
• Ensure alignment between business strategy and technology investments.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Design scalable, resilient, and secure warehouse solutions supporting distribution center operations.
• Provide technical leadership across inbound, outbound, inventory, labor management, slotting, replenishment, and fulfillment processes.
• Lead architecture reviews and approve solution designs across multiple initiatives.
• Drive modernization efforts including cloud transformation and microservices adoption.

Design integrations between:

• Supplier and carrier platforms

• Mentor solution architects, engineers, and technical leads.
• Collaborate with business leaders, operations teams, and product managers to prioritize capabilities.
• Influence executive stakeholders regarding technology direction and investment decisions.
• Lead cross-functional architecture forums and design councils.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

• Ability to communicate highly complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders both verbally and in writing.
• Proactively advises Product Owners of developments and advancement in technology that can impact business operations.
• Experienced leader with proven capability to grow talent and partner with other disciplines.
• Participates in identifying career opportunities, growing talent, and planning for succession.
• Able to train and mentor software engineers in all aspects of the software delivery process.
• Able to participate in or guide the software selection process to meet the business requirements.
• Applies emerging and evolving technologies to current and future business needs at strategic and tactical levels.
• Reviews, evaluates, recommends and pilots emerging technologies prior to investment or deployment.
• Accountable for code quality, standards, and processes for the domain.
• Tracks and evaluates software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process conformance to project plans and industry standards.
• Extensive knowledge of software engineering principles, methodologies, and current best practices.
• Energetic multitasker able to maintain detailed oversight and technical leadership on multiple development teams delivering highly complex solutions.
• Oversees internal and external project dependencies and critical paths.
• Sets direction for the team and guides the engineering vision.
• Educate team on technology changes applicable to their domain.
• Understands and implements architectural vision for performance, extensibility, and availability.
• Knowledgeable of all deployed production and development systems within their domain.
• Accountable for overall technical designs for in-house solutions and performance for all solutions within domain (inc. SaaS).
• Expert analytical skills with a demonstrated mastery in design, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and support spanning multiple technologies.
• Able to champion technical investigations and cost estimates.
• Extensive knowledge of IT Security principles and controls to ensure systems operate safely and securely.

Work Experience &/or Education:

• Strong hands-on development background in C, C++, Java, and SQL with the ability to guide engineering teams on design patterns, coding standards, performance optimization, and scalability.
• Experience designing and supporting mission-critical warehouse applications developed using Java and C/C++ technologies.
• Deep understanding of database architecture, SQL optimization, transaction processing, and large-scale data integration.
• Ability to review code, conduct architecture assessments, and establish engineering best practices across distributed development teams
• Experience integrating WMS platforms with automation systems, robotics, and real-time control applications that leverage C/C++ and Java-based services.
• 9+ years of software development experience in an enterprise IT environment
• 7+ years of experience as a full stack Java developer
• 5+ years of experience with a higher-level language (C, Java, Python)
• 3+ years of hands-on development using PL/SQL, shell scripting
• 2+ years of experience with real time streaming platform (Kafka)
• Deep expertise in one or more WMS platforms.