Engineering Manager - Product Platform Egress - Hybrid - Seattle

Our teams are building a new Product Information Management (PIM). PIM is a dedicated system for universally accessible product information and an ecosystem for the efficient flow of product information to support vendors, merchants, operations, and our customers.

In this role you will drive the modernization of how we federate/egress product data which is used by both our internal/external partners and end customers. The journey ahead will help reduce the lead time to progress items through the various maturity states for ordering, procurement, planning and enabling customer experience in the most seamless and cost-efficient manner. You will support a team of engineers to build low latency high throughput APIs and data streams that empower critical applications like Checkout, Wishlist, Purchase History to name a few. You will assist, guide, support your team in the planning of sprints, working with our product partners to define and prioritize intake requests, and develop road maps for your team.

Managers within Technology at Nordstrom help create an inspiring workplace where talented people are empowered to drive amazing customer experiences and business results. Through broad industry and practice knowledge and hands-on technical management experience, the Manager guides a team of professionals to execute strategy and tactics that deliver desired results.

The ideal candidate will be a self-directed critical thinker, creative problem solver, and committed team player. You will have a bias toward action, prioritizing delivering immediate value to Nordstrom while iteratively building our program for the future. Part of your success will be achieved through forming strong partnerships with business units and technology teams to help guide them by providing vision, strategy, and balancing prioritization to effectively support Store Technology in our environment.

A day in the life…

• Assist in enhancing organizational vision and strategies to support company goals

• Create training opportunities for team to learn the latest technologies and methodologies

• Ensure team has the tools, resources, and information they need to be successful

• Hire capable and motivated talent/teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver solutions aligned with business needs

• 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 own team (e.g. quantifies impacts customer first, waste elimination, increased productivity, iterates quickly, shorten feedback loop, experience creating relevant KPIs)

You own this if you have…

• 5+ years of relevant work experience

• A BA/BS in Computer Science or closely related degree or equivalent practical experience

• 3+ years leading teams (preferred)

• Technical understanding of AWS offerings and applications built on top of AWS

• 5+ years of Java Development

• Solid understanding of tools like New Relic, Splunk, Pagerduty, ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence.

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