About the Launchpad Program

The tech industry is constantly evolving, creating new opportunities and challenges for businesses globally. If you’re looking to break into Tech, we’ve developed a program where you will have the opportunity to engage with tech leaders, develop your skills, and learn more about our culture while advancing your career. In this program, you will gain hands-on experience in your targeted discipline and lay the groundwork for the future of tech. If you want to make a difference in your work and community, you’ll find a home here at Lowe’s.

This program offers experience to candidates who want to break into tech by following our program timeline below:

Orientation • 1 Week

• Learn Lowe’s policies, benefits, and business strategy

• Hands-on integration with Lowe’s culture

• Learn tech processes, systems, and operations

Bootcamp • 8 Weeks

• Fast-paced learning in targeted discipline

• Dedicated coaching with a structured curriculum

• Skills assessments

• Individual & Group Projects

Rotation 1 & 2 • 12 Months

• Rotations in different areas of Tech

• Hands-on experience & meaningful work

• Professional development

Final Placement

On completion of Launchpad, you are matched with a Tech team that best suits your interests to continue advancing your career and driving big changes with Lowe’s.

You’ll gain valuable skills and a place to connect with tech leaders, all while finding full-time job placement in this expanding industry.

Job Description

• Helps develop integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions in data analytical space to ensure specifications are flexible, scalable, and maintainable and meet architectural standards.

• With help from more senior engineers, develops software/data solutions for business requirements using a basic understanding of programming fundamentals.

• Ensures basic unit testing and functional testing coverage accounting for all boundary conditions according to the system integration test plan.

• Follows best source control and continuous integration/continuous deployment practices for efficient testing and deployment of code to different environments as defined for the team.

• Reviews technical documents, design, code, and demonstrations to learn from more senior engineers and stay aligned in team approach.

• Analyzes and organizes data to help deliver insights requested by the business.

• Helps develop, maintain, and enhance operational, analytical (including self-serve) applications across various business domains; delivers reports on-premises and cloud infrastructure; uses frameworks and reusable components whenever possible.

• Troubleshoots system issues, helps in root cause analysis, and ensures conformance of the technology solutions with IT governance and regulatory frameworks.

• Helps implement infrastructure-related projects for the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent

• Completion of coursework or program focused on software development or related skills (e.g., technology related college coursework, bootcamp, certification program, coding academy)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems, or related field

• 1 year of experience in software development or a related field

• 1 year of experience in object-oriented programming/structure programming, structured query language, and scripting

• 1 year of experience in big data technology

• 1 year of experience in Cloud big data technologies

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.