Senior Retail Solutions Owner — Applications Engineering

National-Vision,-Inc; Lawrenceville (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental insurance

401k retirement savings with companyb

Flexible spending account

Paid personal time off

Paid company holidays

Parental leave

Employee eyewear discount

Job summary

National Vision is seeking a Senior Solutions Owner in Retail Applications Engineering to lead delivery and coordination for store and platform transformation initiatives. You will own execution across multiple systems and teams while balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural goals.

The role requires 7+ years of project or program management for enterprise platforms and 2–4 years delivering complex, cross‑team initiatives.

Qualifications

• 7+ years Project or Program Management for enterprise platforms.
• 2-4 years delivering complex, cross-team initiatives balancing speed with direction.
• Executive communication and decision-support skills.
• Executive facilitation; backlog refinement, estimation, and planning techniques.
• Familiarity with SDLC, DevOps pipelines, and QA for automation and quality.
• Experience with API-driven or headless architectures (preferred).
• Retail or omnichannel experience (preferred).
• Experience operating in regulated environments (PCI, HIPAA) (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Drives alignment across product, engineering, design, and business stakeholders.
• Manages timelines, dependencies, and risk across workstreams.
• Partners with Business Analyst to ensure requirements are clear and sequenced appropriately.
• Clearly presents trade-offs and risks, ensuring governance is in place to prevent duplicate or throw-away work.
• Ensures the project's technical documents (requirements, architecture, functional specifications, technical specifications, testing plans, training, etc.) are thorough, signed off on by the stakeholders, and maintained throughout the project.

Skills

Executive communication

Executive facilitation

Backlog refinement & planning

SDLC / DevOps / QA

API-driven architectures

Retail store systems

PCI/HIPAA compliance

Education

Four year college degree or equivalent experience.

Business Administration, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering (Required)

Job description

National Vision is seeking a Senior Solutions Owner in Retail Applications Engineering to lead delivery and coordination for store and platform transformation initiatives. You will own execution across multiple systems and teams while balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural goals.

The role requires 7+ years of project or program management for enterprise platforms and 2–4 years delivering complex, cross‑team initiatives.