WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As an Engineering Manager for Athlete Tools team, you will be part of a highly visible, Engineering team passionate about aligning strategic objectives with tactical demands. You will be instrumental in creating a team with a strong focus on instilling trust, effective collaboration, high performance culture and mindset to exceed business expectations and outcomes. Ability to navigate in a complex matrixed organization and lead the team towards successful delivery and individual career growth. In this role we are looking for a high performing Engineering Manager to play a critical role in building Retail Commerce (a.k.a AthleteTools) product capabilities.

A successful Software Engineering Manager focuses on strategic impact, people management, knowledge management, business understanding and partnership, and team empowerment and autonomy.

It's the Software Engineering Manager’s responsibility to educate and align your reports on Nike’s goals and objectives. Understanding Nike’s strategies and objectives and communicating them to your reports will guide their overall success.

In this role you will field the best team and be directly responsible for the well-being of your development squads.  With regards to hiring, the Software Engineering Manager will decide the number, necessary budget and technical competencies of the development squads in their domain.  This includes partnering with Nike’s Talent Acquisition team to apply the best candidates given the needed capacity.

As a people manager you will also coach, guide and drive your squad members.  You will provide a culture of learning to ensure that team members are well equipped to successfully deliver working software.  This includes preparing your team members for technology and strategic shifts within the broader Global Technology organization.   

You will develop the work plans, technical priorities and partner with Technical Product Managers, Program Managers and Scrum Masters to validate the correct amount of new product work and technical investment. 

Finally, in your role you will be expected to resolve technical issues and business issues as necessary.  In some cases, you may need to escalate these decisions to your leaders, but the Software Engineering Manager Is expected to have the confidence and empowerment to make the right technical decisions. 

You’ll have –

• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Information Systems or other relevant subject area related to information technology

• Overall 12+ years of IT experience building customer centric software products or solutions with a focus on any of the Retail/Stores domain.

• Experience in Retail domain is mandatory.

• 4+ years of professional experience in Enterprise Technology Solutions including end-to-end Business Blueprinting, development, testing, support, and post implementation tech solution refinement.

• Proficiency in Java, Python, Javascript or other high level programming language

• Experience in micro service architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful Services using Java

• Experience working in a distributed/cloud-based environment (e.g. Amazon EC2, GCE, Rackspace, Azure etc.)

• Experience working with relational data stores like MySQL and Oracle.

• Experience in designing and implementing highly scalable web applications.

• Experience with monitoring and tracing tools like Splunk, SignalFx and New Relic is a plus.

• Exposure to continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests. Continuous delivery experience preferred

• A minimum of 5 years management experience of high performing software engineering teams.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience working cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

• Hands on development and configuration in supporting product needs.

• Experience with Integration frameworks and design patterns

• Expertise in building cloud scalable, real time and high-performance application and solutions

• In-depth knowledge and experience Engineering essentials such as languages (Java, Python or other scripting languages), source control, relational and non-relational databases

• Expert knowledge and experience with a diversity of tools and platforms

• Experience with micro service and full stack architecture

• Proven ability to rapidly learn new technologies, developing and implementing proof of concepts

• Experience developing applications that has data and app complexity

• Experience with Scrum and other Agile processes. 

• Knowledge of Jira, Git/SVN, Jenkins 

• Experience in goal settings, mentoring hiring and ramping up the teams.

• Comfortable working within an exciting fast-paced environment by reducing ambiguity and building trust with the team.

• Willingness to explore new technologies and creative solutions.

• Strong at estimating work, planning, organization, and implementing complex software projects.

• Experience with implementing CI/CD and leading teams with DevOps responsibilities of deploying and supporting the software in production.

• Comfortable working with globally distributed and diverse teams.

• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

• You will report into the Director of Engineering for your capability area.

• Works closely with Athlete Tools/Retail Commerce leadership to develop Retail/Stores vision, strategy and execution plans that are aligned with business outcomes

• Partners with Product teams to ensure outcomes are aligned with Business expectations

• Partners with Engineering Directors and other Engineering Managers to build an effective team and partnership with stakeholders

• Engage with Scrum master to define and align with product roadmap, schedule and timelines

• Work with Engineers on the team to provide full context and understanding of customers and business requirements to create valuable solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Provide engineering leadership and best practices to continuously build new platforms and deliver working software.

• Contribute towards establishing best practices; drive collaborative review of design, code, test plan and dataset implementation performed by other engineers in support of delivering high quality product features.

• Responsible for driving excellence in Dev/Ops such as continuous integration, deployment, and improvement, test automation, instrumentation and observability, SLAs, high-availability, and improvement of ops metrics.

• Disseminate technical knowledge to the team members on emerging ideas through multiple forums (e.g., user groups, tech talks, design reviews, internal blogs).

• Owns the resource plans for the area (right talent and team composition)

• Mentor and develop other engineers. Develops competencies and skills of team members.

• Prepares and delivers performance reviews and conducts performance management coaching

• Make Hiring decision

• Collaborating with product team members at Nike World Head Quarter and India Tech center to design, develop, and deploy a highly scalable solutions, system and services. 

• Collaborate with upstream and downstream technical teams across Geos to develop integrations to provide a seamless flow from planning to delivery.  

• Participating in the construction of new features and identifying areas for improvement proactively.

• The squad you lead will work on innovating, architecting, designing, and implementing highly available, scalable systems, focusing on highly visible marketing initiatives.

Key Competencies:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to ensure high the delivery of high-quality work

• Understands the pros and cons of different resourcing models and identifies the model that will provide the best results

• Identifies opportunities to improve operational and squad-level processes

• Develops resource plans to best apply engineering resources to the business priorities

• Understands and tracks budgeting changes throughout the fiscal timeline

• Develops technical roadmaps and partners with product to ensure an appropriate amount of technical investment at the squad level

• Develops the technical, personal and communication competencies of every member of the development squad

• Prepares and delivers performance management, performance ratings and annual pay reviews for all reporting full time employees

• Develops trusting relationships by ensuring that squads deliver on commitments

• Communicates relevant Nike strategies and objectives to the team in way that helps guide their success

Key Responsibilities: 

• Be part of a mission critical team focused on helping your squads in building a high-throughput, low latency, fault-tolerant Retail platform that drive Nike’s Digital transformation and growth strategies.

• Serve as a technical and people’s leader for the software engineering teams and coach and inspire your squads.

• Have strong communication skills, ability to manage up and down, solve complex problems, and being a supportive leader and team player is key.

• You will build and deliver the roadmaps for the existing and new Technology capabilities needed, build, and develop the team and lead vendors and other partners to delight consumers.

• Application of the right resourcing model to best deliver against the business priorities

• Develops and prioritizes the delivery of the technical roadmap

• You will work with globally distributed teams across product, program, architecture, and engineering to develop the right business or technical solution

• Performance planning for all engineering reports

• Size and technical competencies represented within the squads

• Knowledge sharing through documentation, presentations, pair programming and other mechanisms

• Pushing back when something is not right

• Setting a culture of acceptance and diversity to your squads

• Measuring team performance through metrics, performance indicators and key results

• Partnering with peers to align work with a common goal

• Plan and track quarterly budgets for engineering resources

• You will make sure your teams infrastructure cost is effectively used.

• Be an active member and help to define of Nike’s engineering culture

• Remain current with industry trends and guide the team in the right path.

• Being available in a rotating production support model and being an escalation point when needed

• Being available in interacting with Global teams when needed to assist the teams with business deliverables and resolving road blockers

• Leverage Nike resources and training opportunities to grow yourself in the role