Engineering Manager - NAP Data Ingestion Team
Engineering Manager - NAP Data Ingestion Team
Job Description
Nordstrom isn’t just another job — it’s a career. We are a leading fashion retailer that has offered the very best of what is on trend for men, women, and children since 1901. We believe in rewarding outstanding work, developing employees’ careers and building long-term relationships with our customers. As an Engineering Manager at Nordstrom, you will have the opportunity to combine your passion for technology and fashion to build a compelling and delightful experience for our valued customers.
This position is about…
We are building the road to real-time, machine-learned insights and we need your help. Imagine a world where anyone from an engineer to an executive can easily discover key data within our cloud, transform it seamlessly and use machine learning to drive actual business decisions in real time. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity and we have only just begun!
As Engineering Manager for Nordstrom’s Data Ingestion platform, you will shape how teams publish data at scale. With a keen customer focus, you will collaborate with external teams, understand their needs and use those to define key metrics which quantify their satisfaction. You will also guide and provide technical solutions so that partner teams can easily send their data in real-time to Nordstrom’s Analytical Platform, NAP, using technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes and Flink. All of this will help you build a delightful ingestion platform, empowering us to better understand and delight our customers.
As a technical leader within Nordstrom, you will raise the bar for your team, helping them to deliver their best work. You will also help each team member grow, identifying teachable moments, training and work that supports their career goals.
This is a rare opportunity to join a crucial team at a pivotal moment – I hope you join us.
You are responsible for...
Assist in enhancing Data Ingestion platform vision and strategies to support company goals and receive guidance from more senior leaders
Contribute to architecture, coding, test plans, project plans, deployment planning and operations to drive excellence and lead team towards its goals
Employ continuous improvement methodologies across your team (e.g. quantifies impacts customer first, waste elimination, increased productivity, iterates quickly, shorten feedback loop, experience creating relevant KPIs).
Leading the development of technical solutions (e.g., APIs, SDKs, etc.) that support ingesting, discovering, enriching, and surfacing data across Nordstrom
Developing and fostering a healthy and collaborative culture for your team that embodies both industry best practices and Nordstrom values
Growing and developing an incredible team of talented and motivated engineers with high expectations around individual ownership and impact
Driving the roadmap and technical vision for the team, collaborate with product groups and partner teams to deliver value to our customers
Influencing key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions
Being the bar raiser, pushing the limit on how solutions are designed and built, how systems are operated, and how we support our engineers to deliver better experiences for our customers
Hire capable and motivated talent/teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver solutions aligned with business needs
You own this if you have...
B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or comparable experience
Experience (2+ years) managing/leading a team of junior and senior engineers to achieve impactful results
Demonstrable experience owning and operating business critical systems servicing internal and external customers
Deep experience in development, are comfortable working in code and skilled at explaining and advocating for new technologies and solutions.
Profound care for your people and the desire to help those who want to help themselves
Demonstrable ability to establish a vision, define a roadmap, and to execute on it
Pragmatism. You can prioritize, simplify, and make a path toward results.
Proactive mindset. You seek the best solution for the company and customer and take action without being directed
The capability to truly listen to our customers and partners, internalize their needs and develop simple and elegant solutions that they can’t live without
A bias towards action guided by evidence-based decision-making mindset
Experience in AWS, Flink, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes and REST API is a big plus
How we work
With others. We have remote pairing tools where engineers often work together, as well as virtual collaboration tools for building out architecture solutions.
With transparency. We encourage open dialog and discourse. We don’t encourage silos.
With agility. We don’t believe in following a process for process’s sake. We ship frequently and focus on delivering incremental value.
With open minds. We are committed to building a diverse team of people with unique perspectives. This encourages a healthy and inclusive environment that builds a more sustainable, successful company.
With pride. We value our people most of all. We invest in ourselves by applying our own strengths and interests to company
We’ve got you covered…
Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:
- Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
- Life Insurance and Disability
- Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
A few more important points...
The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.
Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.