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Lowe’s has always recognized the importance of using the power of technology to maximize our competitive position in the retail marketplace. We continually invest in the best hardware, software, telecommunications and application development tools available.
And we show the same commitment to identifying and developing the best technical talent as well. From Summer Internships to Senior IT Management positions, our world-class business solutions development, operations, and IT planning environment offers a wealth of opportunities for IT professionals at every level.
Positions within our Information Technology group include: |
IT Internship Opportunities
Apply your education and energy to challenging technology assignments throughout our organization. Become part of the team that’s leading the industry into the future, and creating a better customer experience through the application of established and emerging technologies. |
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Entry Level Opportunities
Learn about technology’s relevance to and impact upon many aspects of Lowe’s business, including Customer Service, Operations, Merchandising, Logistics, and Distribution. Participate in a three-month training program at the Lowe’s Support Center handling calls from the 1,025+ Lowe’s store locations. Benefit from training in programming languages, JCL, data modeling tools, and Lowe’s development methodology. Apply your learnings to challenging assignments with project teams in Business Solutions, Solutions Delivery, IT Engineering or IT Operations, upon successful completion of the entry level program.
Candidates for our Entry Level Program should have a BS degree in either Information Systems or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience. |
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Solutions Delivery
Design, develop, enhance, maintain, and implement effective business applications for Lowe’s, using applications in our Client / Server, UNIX, Z-Series mainframe, and web-based environments. Use your strong analytical skills, and solid technical background to identify detailed user requirements, select appropriate solutions, prepare cost estimates, and serve as the focal point for technical solutions for our end-users. Work closely with Solutions Delivery team members to analyze Lowe’s data requirements and maintain corporate data models and standards.
Available positions include Programmer, Programmer Analyst, Senior Programmer Analyst, Senior Systems Analyst and Project Manager. |
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Information Technology Strategy
Ensure that the IT organization proactively participates in the overall strategy and planning process for the corporation. Facilitate the effective operation of the IT organization, and guide practices and techniques within IT to maximize its value to the Company. Specific opportunities and duties include:
Information Security - implementing processes, practices and techniques to secure Lowe’s computing and environments; and working closely with other areas of IT and our user community to identify and address areas of risk. Positions in this area include Information Security Administrators, Analysts and Project Managers.
IT Strategy & Planning - managing the overall IT Portfolio (IT Planning Analysts); guiding the evolution of Lowe’s technology architecture (IT Architecture Analysts); and facilitating research of emerging technologies (IT Research Analysts).
IT Consulting & Quality - providing in-house consulting to other areas of IT on project management techniques, and developing/implementing ‘best practices’ across all areas of IT. |
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Information Technology Production Services
Managing overall staffing (permanent and temporary) and professional development for all employees within the IT organization. In addition, IT Planning Analysts facilitate IT’s financial planning and financial management activities.
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Business Solutions
Support all areas of Lowe’s business including Store Operations, Sales, Merchandising, Logistics, Distribution, Marketing, Finance, Administration, and Human Resources. Partner with these areas to keep application development projects aligned with the needs of the business. Some opportunities and duties include:
Solution Analysts - providing design, analysis, and critical business knowledge to application development project teams.
Decision Support Analysts - maintaining the Lowe’s Information Warehouse and providing services surrounding Lowe’s web-based business intelligence tools to the end-user community.
Solutions Project Management – working closely with business area management and other IT organizations, managing portions of solutions portfolio and maintaining both business knowledge and relationships to properly manage IT alignment to the business. |
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IT Operations
IT Operations executes IT service delivery functions and acts as the custodian of Lowe’s production IT environment. IT Operations is responsible for the continuous round-the-clock running and administration of Lowe’s information technology infrastructure. IT Operations departments include Computer Operations which is responsible for our two Corporate Data Centers and the Operations Command Center; the IT Support Center which provides Level I support and break/fix maintenance for all Lowe’s stores and corporate users; Distribution Center IT Operations which is responsible for IT service delivery across the distributed Lowe’s supply chain network; Technology Deployment Services which handles procurement, staging, configuration, deployment, and installation of Lowe’s IT hardware assets, IT Production Services which provides centralized financial and asset management and operational management process controls, and the Disaster Recover Program Office which ensures business continuity through an ongoing business impact analysis (BIA) and recovery planning process. |
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IT Engineering
With over 1,500 stores and 17 Distribution Centers and offices located throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Asia. IT Engineering personnel are responsible for architecting, engineering and supporting the technology infrastructure that serves all of Lowe’s computing needs This includes all voice and data LAN/WAN and satellite communications, z-Series, CICS, MQ-Series, Teradata, relational data base platforms, UNIX, Websphere, Data Storage, Windows 2000/2003/XP technologies. The scope of responsibility includes our primary and recovery data centers, stores, distribution facilities, field locations, and remote computing by field staff. IT Engineering is organized into the following groups: |
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Communication Engineering Services
Plan, design, engineer and implement the local area, wide area, and satellite networking systems that supply Lowe’s corporate needs for voice, video, and data communication. Provide engineering support for application performance testing. Communications Engineering Services solutions enable our business to reduce costs, increase flexibility, strengthen security, and improve efficiency. |
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Enterprise Systems Management
Implement processes and tools to automate the IT organization including monitoring the enterprise environment to assure stability, operability, and quality. Drive the success of Lowe’s Information Technology through the consistent delivery of information required to manage the end-to-end technology and application environment. |
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Workstation and Server Engineering
Plan, design, engineer and implement all Lowes’s Intel based computing platforms in the Stores, Distribution Centers, Remote Office, Data Centers and Corporate Office locations. This includes servers and workstations as well as the Macintosh environment. Responsible for the infrastructure components such as MS Exchange and OWA, Active Directory, Enterprise Spam and Anti Virus protection and Citrix. |
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Large Systems and Messaging Engineering
Plan, design, engineer and implement all Lowe’s mainframe computing platforms and messaging technologies which support Lowe’s core general office and replenishment systems as well as all data transfer requirements across the organization. Several millions of transactions related to Lowe’s business move through this environment on a daily basis. |
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Technology Integration and Database Engineering
Drive the strategy, architecture, and integration of all Lowe’s technical platforms, provide PMO leadership for programs that encompass multiple Engineering disciplines, provide other IT organizations with technical support for database management systems and physical data structures, and support Lowe’s business intelligence environment. |
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Storage Engineering
Plan, design, engineer and implement the Lowe’s storage infrastructure, SAN and FICON infrastructure, backup infrastructure, and disaster recovery for all host systems data including z/OS, Unix (AIX and Linux), and Windows. Responsible for storage platforms which reside in Lowe’s stores, regional distribution centers, and the two corporate data centers. |
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UNIX Engineering
Plan, design, engineer and implement all Lowe’s UNIX computing platforms running in stores, distribution centers, and corporate data centers. This includes Lowe’s mid-range UNIX IBM pSeries servers and Linux thin client platforms. Responsible for all server infrastructure components used to deliver the application J2EE environments and manage the service delivery aspects of the infrastructure and vendor relationships which deliver Lowes.com. |
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