Senior Solutions Owner, Retail 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

Senior Solutions Owner, Retail Applications Engineering

• Full-time

At National Vision we believe everyone deserves to see their best to live their best. We help people by making quality eye care and eyewear more affordable and accessible. National Vision is one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States with over 1,200 stores. We operate four retail brands: America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Eyeglass World, and Vista Optical inside select Fred Meyer stores and on select military bases. We offer an innovative culture where training is a priority, hard work is praised, and career growth is a reality.

We are hiring for a Senior Solutions Owner, Retail Applications Engineering to join our growing team!

The Senior Solutions Owner leads delivery and coordination for critical store and platform transformation initiatives. Owns execution across multiple systems and teams while balancing near-term delivery commitments with long-term architectural goals.

What Would You Do? The Specifics.

• 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.

Education

• Four year college degree or equivalent experience.
• Business Administration, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering (Required)

Work Experience

• 7+ years Project or Program Management for enterprise platforms (Required)
• 2-4 years Delivers complex, cross-team initiatives, balancing delivery speed with long-term direction (Required)

Additional Skills - Includes Computer/Software Skills

• Executive communication and decision-support skills (Required)
• Executive facilitation; backlog refinement, estimation, and planning techniques (Required)
• Familiarity with SDLC, DevOps pipelines, and QA for automation and quality (Required)
• Experience managing delivery in API-driven or headless architectures, including coordinating dependencies between front-end experiences and backend services (Preferred)
• Retail, store systems, or omnichannel experience (Preferred)
• Experience operating in regulated environments (PCI, HIPAA) (Preferred)

Licenses, Certifications, Professional Affiliations

• Agile certifications such as CSM, PSM, SAFe, or PMI-ACP. (Preferred)
• PMP or comparable project/program management certification. (Preferred)
• Product management, DevOps, cloud, SRE/observability, release management, secure SDLC, accessibility, PCI, privacy, or HIPAA training. (Preferred)

Taking Care of our People!

We understand the importance of financial health and security, and because of that, we provide competitive compensation to all associates.

• health and dental insurance
• 401k retirement savings with company match
• flex spending account
• paid personal time off
• paid company holidays
• parental leave
• employee eyewear discount
• and much, much more

At National Vision, we strive to deliver opportunities for professional growth and long-term career fulfillment. We provide training programs and access to educational courses and pride ourselves on the ever-increasing amount of promotions from within.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.