If you’re ready to innovate and lead in the Digital Product Creation area of the largest Footwear, Apparel and Equipment provider in the world, come join our team. We bring together technology and process expertise to deliver technology solutions that enable the design and development of Nike, Inc.’s core products. We are responsible for creating, developing and deploying seamless, tailored and inherently adaptable solutions. Working with our organization will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just another job.
Scope and Responsibilities
As an Engineering Director, you will:
You will build and lead the engineering team responsible for architecting and developing an API enabled service oriented cloud native platform on AWS
Ensure solutions are designed and developed using a scalable, highly resilient cloud native architecture
Lead building services and experiences to bring a new Nike capability in the area of Rendering, Imagery & Asset management to the next level
Ensuring product and technical features are delivered to spec and on-time
Lead development of tools and frameworks to improve security, reliability, maintainability, availability and performance for the technology foundation of our platform
Explaining designs and constraints to stakeholders and technical teams
Mentor team members
What We’re Looking For
Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or a related field; 2 years additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree
10 years using Enterprise Java in highly distributed systems with high transaction volume
5 years’ experience in building cloud-based enterprise systems, specifically AWS
5 years’ experience in NoSQL datastore systems building highly scalable solutions
3 years’ experience in building event driven applications
Expertise in test driven development
Experience working in a highly agile product development methodology (Scrum)
Knowledge of graph databases like Neo4J
Expertise in Search oriented data stores like Elasticsearch
Expertise in Caching technologies at all levels including content distribution networks
Proven understanding of Micro Services
Experience with Domain Driven Design
3 years of direct experience with hierarchical and distributed code repository management tools like GIT and Mercurial
Enterprise expertise in other modern enterprise languages (functional or other)
Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills
Proven track record of Mentoring other engineers and architects
Experience with leading projects in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment
NIKE, Inc. fosters a culture of invention. We create products, services and experiences for today’s athlete while solving problems for the next generation.... more