Director, Software Engineering, Data, Analytics, andIntelligence,ITC

At Nike, we leverage

the power of data and technology to serve athletes

• around the

world. The Data, Analytics, and Intelligence, ITC team is at the

forefront of this mission — building scalable, secure, and

intelligent platforms that power decision-making and personalized

experiences across the Nike

ecosystem.

WHO WILL

YOU WORK WITH

Join

us at Nike’s India Technology Center (ITC) as a leader in this

organization, you will also partner closely with leadership,

product managers, architects, principal engineers, and peers across

Nike’s Global Technology teams and within our DAI team to manage

priorities and drive alignment on technical decisions. Your team

will be a high-performing group of software engineers that will be

looking to you to empower them, remove barriers, and maintain a

strong team

culture.

WHAT YOU’LL

WORK ON

This role

will lead, mentor, and manage multiple engineering squads to

deliver software in alignment to cross-functional and multi-year

roadmaps and modern industry trends. You will build a culture of

trust and innovation, pushing our teams to explore new and emerging

technologies and how those can help us deliver business value at

scale. Enable continuous transformational changes to accelerate

Nike’s technical maturity, experimentation, standards, best

practices, and developer productivity, while inspiring a rich

global engineering culture.

Lead and

manage multiple teams of software engineers responsible for

building and maintaining scalable data platforms and

services.

Collaborate with product managers,

architects, and other engineering leaders to define and execute the

technical roadmap .

Design

and implement cloud-native architectures that

leverage the scalability and flexibility of major cloud platforms

such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI. Ensure the solutions are robust,

secure, and cost-effective.

Drive the

architecture and development of SDKs, APIs, and

microservices that enable seamless integration and

interoperability across the enterprise. Ensure the services are

scalable, maintainable, and

well-documented.

Ensure that all software

solutions adhere to security best practices and

compliance requirements. Implement robust

security measures to protect data and systems from threats and

vulnerabilities.

Ensure the teams follow best

practices in software development, data governance, and

platform observability.

Foster a

culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering

excellence.

Align engineering initiatives with

broader organizational goals such as modernization, cloud

cost optimization, and data

governance.

Report on team progress,

challenges, and outcomes to the senior

leadership.

WHO

ARE WE LOOKING

FOR

We are looking

for a strategic engineering leader with a passion for building and

scaling high-performing software engineering teams. You thrive in a

fast-paced, collaborative environment and have a proven track

record of delivering scalable and reliable data platforms and

services.

This role will need

to seamlessly partner and collaborate with our business-facing and

internal technology teams and leaders, engineers, architects, and

product managers to drive rapid value delivery of reusable,

well-architected and highly scalable solutions to modernize Nike’s

technology landscape. This role will lead, support and develop

engineering team members, manage priorities and deliver results

across boundaries. The successful candidate is an inclusive and

empowering technology leader with a history of building trust,

tight partnerships and enabling agile teams to solve technical

problems in a product

model.

15+ years of

experience in software development, with a strong foundation in

distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and data

platforms.

5+ years of

experience leading engineering teams, with demonstrated success in

hiring, mentoring, and growing

talent.

Expertise in at least one major cloud

platform : AWS, Azure, GCP, or

OCI.

Hands-on experience

with Databricks, Snowflake, AWS RDS, Azure SQL, or GCP Cloud SQL,

Apache Spark, and Apache

Airflow.

Strong understanding of

data pipeline frameworks, metadata management, and data

governance controls.

Fluent in modern

software architectural principles and patterns (e.g. REST,

domain-driven design, microservices,

etc.)

Proven ability to deliver

high-impact, scalable

services .

Excellent communication and

stakeholder management skills.

Strength in

strategic thinking and translating strategy to

measurable objectives.

Track record of

inspiring others & positive change in solution design,

technical delivery, and process

improvement .

Passion for learning new

technologies, patterns, and

practices.

Experience developing, monitoring

and supporting highly available microservices and

Applications

Experience working within large

organization or scaled Agile

methodologies

Bachelor's degree in Computer

Science or Engineering, or equivalent

experience