Director Software Engineering, ITC

The Product

Innovation and Consumer Creation team provides the foundation for

how we make Nike product; from innovation, to design, development,

line planning, and merchandising. We build the tools and enable

Nike to keep pace with consumers and stay ahead of what they

want.

Who are we

looking for : We are looking for a

Director of Software Engineering to lead teams that build and

develop web experiences, core platform APIs leveraging AI / ML for

Nike’s Merchandising functions. This role

will need to seamlessly partner and collaborate with business

teams, other technology 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.

What will

you do : 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.

Who will you work

with :

As a leader in this organization, you will

also partner closely with leadership, product managers, architects,

principal engineers, and peers across Merchandising and Consumer

Product and Innovation 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

bring

14+ years experience

leading high performing software engineering

teams

5+ years in a

leadership role with direct

reports

5+ years experience

with cloud native technologies or platforms like AWS, Azure or

other major cloud

providers

Excellent verbal

and written communication skills, both technical and

business-facing

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 with

Agile software development methodology and DevOps

(CICD)

Experience with

deploying, monitoring and tracing solutions using tools like

Splunk, SignalFx and New

Relic

Fluent in modern

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

domain-driven design, microservices,

etc.)

Experience with

current front-end web application tech (e.g. javascript, CSS,

html5, Vue,

React / redux)

Experience with

distributed cloud systems tech (e.g. node.js, EC2, Kubernetes,

Lambda, Bedrock, DynamoDB,

Elasticsearch)

Experience

with implementing or integrating AI, Machine Learning and related

data solutions

preferred.

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