Director, Software Engineering, Data, Analytics, and Intelligence, 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