Who We Are Looking For
We are seeking a senior technology leader to set the strategy, engineering, and operations for Nike’s data streaming, data integration, and operational database platforms. These foundational capabilities support critical business experiences across commerce, supply chain, marketing, corporate function and product innovation.
The ideal candidate is a builder-operator with deep experience leading enterprise platform organizations, developing high-performing teams, modernizing distributed systems, and connecting technology strategy to measurable business outcomes. You will lead through leaders, influence across Nike, and build secure, resilient, cost-effective platforms that accelerate the business.
What You Will Work On
- Define the multi-year strategy and roadmap for data streaming, data integration and operational database platforms.
- Modernize platforms toward highly available, multi-region, resilient, and operationally excellent services.
- Establish standards for event-driven architecture, streaming, schema and data contracts, replication, performance, security, and disaster recovery.
- Simplify the technology landscape by consolidating foundational capabilities and retiring legacy solutions.
- Drive self-service experiences, automation, developer productivity, and adoption across Nike engineering teams.
- Own reliability, operational readiness, risk reduction, vendor strategy, and total cost of ownership.
- Build and develop a diverse, high-performing organization of engineering leaders and teams across geographies.
- Communicate strategy, trade-offs, risks, and business impact to senior executives and stakeholders.
Who You Will Work With
You will partner across Platform Engineering, Global Technology, Product, Architecture, Security, Data and AI, and business-domain engineering teams.
Key partners include:
- Engineering and SRE teams on architecture, reliability, and operating standards.
- Product and program leaders on platform capabilities, adoption, and outcomes.
- Domain teams across commerce, supply chain, marketing, corporate function, and product innovation.
- Governance, Security, Privacy, Finance, Procurement, and strategic technology vendors.
- Global Technology leadership on priorities, dependencies, and enterprise alignment.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
- Advanced degree in computer science, software engineering or information systems preferred.
- 12+ years of experience in software, platform, or data infrastructure engineering.
- 5+ years leading engineering organizations through managers and senior leaders in global or matrixed environments.
- Deep experience operating distributed systems, real-time data platforms, and high-volume transaction-processing environments.
- Strong knowledge of streaming and messaging architectures, Kafka-based platforms, stream processing, schema management, data contracts, and replication.
- Strong knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases, including scaling, performance, partitioning, backup, recovery, and multi-region design.
- Experience delivering cloud-native platforms with automation, infrastructure-as-code, security, and resilience practices.
- Demonstrated ability to define strategy, make architecture trade-offs, drive modernization, and connect technology decisions to business outcomes.
- Experience with enterprise security, privacy, risk management, vendor relationships, and financial stewardship.
- Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Critical Skills
- Strategic leadership and a track record of delivering results at enterprise scale.
- Builder-operator mindset with strong technical judgment.
- Ability to lead through leaders, build organizational capability, and establish accountability.
- Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and drive collective decisions.
- Strong business acumen, executive presence, and change leadership.
- Commitment to inclusive leadership, diverse teams, and continuous learning.
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field, or a suitable combination of education, experience, and training
- 12+ years of experience in software, platform, or data infrastructure engineering
- 5+ years leading engineering organizations through managers and senior leaders in global or matrixed environments
- Deep experience operating distributed systems, real-time data platforms, and high-volume transaction-processing environments
- Strong knowledge of streaming and messaging architectures, Kafka-based platforms, stream processing, schema management, data contracts, and replication
- Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, including scaling, performance, partitioning, backup, recovery, and multi-region design
- Experience delivering cloud-native platforms with automation, infrastructure as code, security, and resilience practices
- Ability to define strategy, make architecture trade-offs, drive modernization, and connect technology decisions to business outcomes
- Experience with enterprise security, privacy, risk management, vendor relationships, and financial stewardship
- Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
- Advanced degree in computer science, software engineering, or information systems
Nike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nike and has not been reviewed or approved by Nike.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
Nike Insights
What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., we innovate to serve athletes*. Every teammate - from coder to creator - plays a role in making these athletes’ dreams real. Our tech, data, and digital teams push limits every day, building the future of sport and the tools that drive it. Here, curiosity is fuel. Innovation is the game plan. Different perspectives keep us on the offense. You’ll solve challenges worth tackling, grow fast and belong to a team that backs you to do the right thing. Bring your drive. Bring your bold. Let’s move the world, together. Take your first step at nike.com/careers * If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
Why Work With Us
At NIKE, Inc., your dedication fuels the future of sport. There is a sense of pride that comes from representing an iconic brand and shaping its future. Here, we treat every day as a new opportunity to push boundaries, ask tough questions and share whole-hearted convictions. We are a team – united by the belief that anything is possible.
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