Director, Software Engineering (Digital Front-end Engineering)

PetCo • San Diego, CA

148d • $194,600 - $291,900

About The Position

Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents, and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong and operate 1,500+ pet care centers in the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico, including 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics, and eight distribution centers. We're focused on purpose-driven work and strongly believe what's good for pets, people, and our planet is good for Petco.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related fields, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of IT and business industry work experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for long-range technology strategy planning for our commerce platform and integrated systems.
• Works with technical leaders to define and refine vision, architecture, and stack; leads efforts to make timely technical decisions.
• Manages policy development to address complex business issues, provides leadership to cross-functional teams.
• Partners with Product Development team to influence what is built for business consumption.
• Advocates for enterprise technology initiatives in the enterprise technology backlog structure.
• Identifies interdependencies and emerging trends across interrelated technology efforts and programs to continuously improve products and services.
• Partners with Program/Project and Tech SMEs to create realistic roadmaps and set expectations with customers; stays close to the product, guides the process to ensure accurate and timely delivery.
• Leverages engineering, problem solving, and influencing skills to ensure process and risk management solutions are also technically sound.
• Coordinates outsourced engineering effort from teams with differing skill sets.

Benefits

• Health and financial benefits
• 401K
• Incentives
• Paid Time Off (PTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree