Company Background: Genuine Parts Company (“GPC” or the “Company”), founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading specialty distributor engaged in the distribution 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 : Seeking world-class talent to join the world’s leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services operating 5,500+ locations and servicing more than 20,000 locations in the U.S and Canada. Specifically, this role will function as the Staff Engineer of a TMS area to build the next generation Transportation systems at GPC. Working with a highly talented team, you'll play a key role to build and run one of the world’s largest automotive and industrial replacement parts operations. This is an engineering leadership role with responsibility for providing technical delivery of TMS applications. This individual must be a technologist & engineer at heart and be comfortable in enabling new technology and being hands on with the execution of the strategy. They 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 technologies. Close collaboration and alignment with business teams, application development teams, Infrastructure and security 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. Responsibilities: Lead the development and build out of various functions of Transportation Management Applications Reviews business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, selecting the most optimal option, 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 functional requirements Lead design and architecture discussions for IT platforms engaging with other staff engineers, engineering teams across different business units to ensure secure and scalable solutions Directs 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 Lead architecture, design and code reviews with engineering teams 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 lead engineers and the technical team within a TMS domain 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 or Engineering fields, or equivalent experience 8+ preferred years’ experience in software engineering & technology, specifically in Transportation management applications Experience in implementing TMS Apps(Ex: Manhattan, JDA, Oracle) Excellent oral and written communication Analytical and problem-solving skills Comfortable with ambiguity and time spent outside of comfort zone acquiring new skills Technically creative and open-minded Experience in enterprise level software development experience (non-academic) with demonstrable experience in Java, REST, SOAP, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, NoSQL, Containerization and Security Experience in building and operating applications running on Public cloud environments (GCP) including DevSecOps practices Must possess experience running high throughput low latency end user-facing microservices