Analytics Product Director - Nike Digital Engineering

Nike - Beaverton, OR

Big data at Nike comes with big opportunities for innovation.   Nike is turning to big data and Hadoop to help better understand customers, improve marketing efforts and fine-tune data-driven strategies.  We are looking for a strong, technical leader to define data and platform strategy for Next Generation Analytics Platform
As our Product Director, you will focusing on the Next Generation Analytics Platform that provides Platform-as-a-Service and Data-as-a-Service functions to various analytic teams within Nike.

Next Generation Analytics platform has seen exponential growth here at Nike. Platform stability, scale and feature set need to grow aggressively to meet increasing demands of data volumes, velocity and business use cases.
The opportunity to join Nike Consumer Digital is now; we are creating new, innovative digital solutions and customizing products for consumers more quickly than ever before. To meet the demands of our business, we are rapidly embracing new software development and deployment technology and tools and delivering solutions using agile methodology. If that sounds exciting, this role is for you.

What we're looking for:

• Articulate and communicate the purpose and vision of analytics platform. Communicate and document system changes to business groups, and translate system functionality into business-relevant language.

• Understand the needs of business and technical stakeholders via regular dialogue and information sharing. Work with remote business groups: vendors, facilities, and cross-functional departments to document requirements.

• Lead roadmap planning and prioritization of operational support, short term needs and strategic objectives and vision. Direct project management and scrum leadership of the solution delivery team. Define, implement, and manage intake, prioritization, and release timing. Drive release cadence and define the cadence structure and governance. Perform technical analytics related to advanced data analysis, data mining, and source-to-target mapping. Create context process and system diagrams. Coordinate and communicate functional requirements by designing and documenting advanced functional specifications.

• Translate roadmap into feature sets and epics that can be executed by scrum teams.

• Develop project plans and timelines. 

• Provide input into IT project management goals and best practice system configuration.

• Track, analyze, and communicate IT project status to management.

• Proactively share progress, status and issues with stakeholders. Work with systems personnel to implement systems designs.

• Mentor the platform team in product delivery, communication and process

• Dive into the platform technology as needed

• Perform business, data, and process analysis to understand key source systems, assess and determine scope and impact of business needs.

• Lead Hadoop/AWS project initiation efforts to turn business data and analytics needs to develop high-level architecture and costs and the collection of business benefits to build appropriate business cases.

• Configure packaged solutions to unique and complex business requirements. 

• Perform IT testing activities, and validation of test results.

Skills/Requirements:

• Education: Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or closely related field (foreign equivalent accepted)

AND

• Experience: Three years' experience as a Technology/Technical Manager, Hadoop Engineer, Systems Analyst, Sr. Systems Analysts, or similar position.

Two years' experience:

• Working with HDFS – Hadoop Big Data Technologies to store Big Data;
• Working with Apache Pig and Hive – Hadoop Data Transformation and Querying Tools;
• Working with the following technical networking concepts: TCP/IP, Subnetting, Tools, and Network Protocols to understand data processing and data transfer across networks;

Three year’s Experience:

• Working with Business Intelligence, Statistical Analysis on large datasets using the following tools: Python, Excel, and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services;
• Working with the following web technologies: ASP.net and Java Script for front end user access; and
• Working with the following Agile Processes and Methodologies: Scum Leadership and Project Management.

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Posted: 30+ days ago

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