Description

Key Skills: Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, Team Management, Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Airflow, Kafka, Cloud Platforms

Good to Have Skills: Experience with dbt, AWS/GCP/Azure cloud platforms, retail or commerce scale experience, agentic/AI-powered analytics platforms, experience driving large migrations or decommissions, experience working with globally distributed teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple engineering squads within the enterprise team that curates, governs, and serves Nike Direct and Marketplace data products.
• Partner with Product leadership, Architects, BI Experience leadership, Platform leadership, and Data Governance to shape strategy, roadmap, and execution.
• Manage Engineering Managers and/or Senior ICs, grow technical talent, and own the delivery, reliability, and operational health of data products.
• Own the delivery of data products in your portfolio including APIs, pipelines, consumption and ontology layers.
• Drive a single source of truth for Nike Direct and Marketplace data in collaboration with BI Experience teams.
• Co-create agentic and AI-powered consumption experiences with BI Experience leadership, ensuring business context and metric consistency.
• Own production reliability, security, and cost across your squads by setting SLAs, leading major incident response, and driving operational maturity.
• Partner with the Platform team to adopt recommended toolkits and blueprints, and influence the platform roadmap where gaps exist.
• Attract and hire exceptional engineers, build an inclusive and high-trust culture, and grow people across levels from SWE I to Principal.
• Represent the organization in cross-Nike forums, contribute to enterprise data architecture and governance decisions, and translate strategy into clear team commitments.

Experience Required: Minimum of 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years managing software or data engineering teams (including managing managers preferred).

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field — or equivalent experience

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate