The Role
As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead engineering delivery, architecture, and team development for product data systems in an Agile environment, fostering excellence and continuous improvement.
Summary Generated by Built In
Are you passionate about people, entrepreneurship, and community? At CCA Global Partners, we connect independent, family-owned businesses with the scale, resources, and innovation they need to compete in today's big-box world. If this resonates with you, your next great opportunity might be just around the corner!
We are excited to invite applications for the role of Engineering Manager, Product Catalog Technology in our IT department at our St. Louis office. As an Engineering Manager, Product Catalog Technology, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader responsible for engineering delivery, architecture, and team development across CCA’s product data systems. You’ll manage both engineers and architects, guiding them through design, development, and delivery within a growing Agile environment.
The Engineering Manager will lead architecture discussions, make key design decisions, and occasionally act as the architect for complex projects. You’ll mentor and hold architects accountable for sound design, scalability, and performance, while fostering a culture of agility, accountability, and continuous improvement.
This role is ideal for a technically strong leader who thrives in an evolving Agile organization and enjoys building structure, consistency, and engineering excellence within a fast-moving modernization effort.
In this role, you will provide:
Embrace the CCA Way: We thrive on our core values and approach success with dedication and innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and invite you to be part of our success story.
Ready to make a difference? Say YES, and we’ll say WELCOME HOME!
We are excited to invite applications for the role of Engineering Manager, Product Catalog Technology in our IT department at our St. Louis office. As an Engineering Manager, Product Catalog Technology, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader responsible for engineering delivery, architecture, and team development across CCA’s product data systems. You’ll manage both engineers and architects, guiding them through design, development, and delivery within a growing Agile environment.
The Engineering Manager will lead architecture discussions, make key design decisions, and occasionally act as the architect for complex projects. You’ll mentor and hold architects accountable for sound design, scalability, and performance, while fostering a culture of agility, accountability, and continuous improvement.
This role is ideal for a technically strong leader who thrives in an evolving Agile organization and enjoys building structure, consistency, and engineering excellence within a fast-moving modernization effort.
In this role, you will provide:
- Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Lead architectural planning, design reviews, and modernization initiatives across all PCT systems.
- Serve as both an architectural leader and, when needed, the hands-on architect for high-impact projects.
- Collaborate with architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise reference architecture and modernization principles (SOA, event-driven, API-first).
- Oversee and guide the implementation of technical standards, performance tuning, and cost optimization in Azure.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies to improve scalability and delivery speed.
- Agile Delivery Leadership
- Champion Agile practices across the PCT team, ensuring consistent sprint planning, retrospectives, and delivery cadence.
- Coach engineers and architects on Agile principles such as iterative delivery, backlog refinement, and team accountability.
- Partner with project managers and product owners to translate roadmap priorities into actionable, well-defined user stories.
- Continuously improve engineering throughput and predictability through metrics-driven delivery management.
- Help shape the ongoing Agile transformation within the technology organization, building scalable delivery processes that balance flexibility and discipline.
- Team Leadership & Development
- Manage and develop a blended team of in-house and outsourced engineers and architects.
- Mentor architects and senior engineers to strengthen technical leadership and solution ownership.
- Create a culture of accountability, transparency, and collaboration where engineers take pride in delivering quality solutions.
- Establish clear goals, conduct regular 1:1s, and ensure ongoing skill development aligned with PCT’s modernization journey.
- Partner with leadership to assess and optimize the mix of internal and external engineering capacity.
- Continuous Improvement & Governance
- Drive cross-team initiatives such as Tech Debt Reduction, CI/CD improvement, and Automated Testing.
- Partner with DevOps and QA to enhance build automation, testing coverage, and deployment reliability.
- Use metrics (build success rate, defect trends, velocity) to identify improvement areas and guide corrective action.
- Ensure solutions and teams operate within CCA’s architectural, security, and compliance standards.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent related experience along with at least 10 years of progressive software engineering experience and 3 or more years in technical or engineering management role.
- Strong technical foundation in Microsoft and Azure technologies, including .NET (Core and 8,9, and10), Web API, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Service Bus, Event Grid, App Services, App Configuration, Key Vault, and Azure Storage.
- Proficiency in Azure DevOps for CI/CD, code management and IaS. Familiar with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Proven success leading architecture and engineering in an Agile or newly transitioning Agile organization, a deep understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices, strong communication skills, and the ability to mentor technical leaders while ensuring alignment between design, delivery, and business goals.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across business and technical teams.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes while maintaining an analytical mindset and attention to detail with a strong commitment to continuous improvement and agile principles.
- We provide YOU the ability to collaborate with a passionate group of leaders, peers, and amazing Members.
- We recognize YOU for your accomplishments and contributions through development, growth and compensation!
- We care about you AND your family. We want to make your life better and easier. Our benefits exist so you are well taken care of, and we support you and your loved ones through life’s various stages and situations.
Embrace the CCA Way: We thrive on our core values and approach success with dedication and innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and invite you to be part of our success story.
Ready to make a difference? Say YES, and we’ll say WELCOME HOME!
Top Skills
.Net 10
.Net 8
.Net 9
.Net Core
App Configuration
App Services
Azure
Azure Devops
Azure Functions
Azure Sql
Azure Storage
Ci/Cd
Confluence
Cosmos Db
Event Grid
JIRA
Key Vault
Microsoft
Service Bus
Web Api
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The Company
What We Do
CCA Global Partners' cooperative business model has a proven track record of empowering thousands of entrepreneurs to succeed in a marketplace that is impacted by widespread consolidation. Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs and independent business owners by providing the scale, resources and innovation that create sustainability, growth and effective competition in today’s evolving marketplace.
More than 2,800 locations in North America and abroad benefit from CCA's leadership through its 14 different businesses which include: Carpet One Floor & Home®, Flooring America®/Flooring Canada®, The Floor Trader®, ProSource Wholesale®, International Design Guild, FEI Group, Lighting One®, savings4members™, The Bike Cooperative®, CCA Sports Retail Services, CCA For Social Good, Innovia Co-op and Lionsbridge Contractor Group.
CCA members and franchisees are engaged in: flooring, lighting products, biking, nonprofit and more.
By providing access to innovative products, systems and services, CCA gives independent businesses a competitive edge while allowing them to maintain their identities. Our continuously evolving business model offers independently-owned businesses an array of tools to maximize operational efficiencies and achieve success.
CCA’s goal is to create a mutually rewarding bond between the company and community, whereby our growth generates social development and enhances the lives of customers and entrepreneurs around the world.
