National Vision Holdings, Inc.

Senior Solutions Owner, Retail Applications Engineering

National Vision Holdings, Inc.$108K — $130K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in relevant fields required.
  • 7+ years of Project or Program Management experience for enterprise platforms required.
  • 2-4 years delivering complex, cross-team initiatives with a focus on balancing speed and direction required.
  • Strong executive communication and decision-support skills required.
  • Expertise in backlog refinement, estimation, and planning techniques required.
  • Familiarity with SDLC, DevOps pipelines, and quality assurance for automation required.
  • Proficiency in Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, and agile reporting dashboards required.

Responsibilities

  • Drive alignment across product, engineering, design, and business teams.
  • Manage timelines, dependencies, and risks across multiple workstreams.
  • Collaborate with Business Analysts to clarify and sequence project requirements.
  • Present trade-offs and risks clearly, ensuring governance to avoid duplicate work.
  • Ensure thoroughness and stakeholder approval of all technical documents throughout the project.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and dental insurance coverage.
  • 401k retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Flexible spending account options.
  • Paid personal time off and company holidays.
  • Parental leave support and employee discounts on eyewear.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and access to training programs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

Qualifications

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)
  • Azure DevOps/Jira (or comparable), Confluence, agile reporting dashboards (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)


Additional Information

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. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including 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.

About National Vision Holdings, Inc.

National Vision Holdings, Inc. is one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States with over 1,100 stores in 44 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The company operates five retail brands: America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Eyeglass World, Vision Centers inside select Walmart stores, Vista Opticals inside Fred Meyer stores and on select military bases, and several e-commerce websites. National Vision Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.
Learn more about National Vision Holdings, Inc.
Size
14,000 employees
Market Cap
$2.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$36.2 million
5 Year Trend
+11.7%
Revenue
$1.7 billion

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