Engineering Manager, Supply Chain Transportation (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Nordstrom•Seattle, WA

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

Passionate about transforming technologies used by our global logistics network in years/decade to come? We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead delivery of Supply Chain Transportation Engineering team. This is a critical role from procurement to store experience, to omni-channel fulfillment to enable seamless experience for all our Nordstrom digital and store customers. This leader must balance technical leadership and people management skills while empowering the team to deliver compelling results. The ideal candidate is passionate about using data to understand how our internal and external customers use our services, leveraging AI to help our teams and business to excel. You own both building new and support existing services to power the platform used by suppliers, vendors, stakeholders and customers. You can impact our millions of customers’ experience and how efficient of billions of dollars of products flowing between our logistics network and vendors. A day in the life… Full leadership responsibility of the deliverable outcome of engineering teams via partnership with product management and business stakeholders Identify and develop talented engineers and leaders, foster a healthy and collaborative culture for your team that embodies both industry best practices and Nordstrom values Ownership and accountability over creating new systems, supporting, and evolving existing systems Influence/make technology decisions for the platform and all of Nordstrom Leads distributed teams cross time-zones Demonstrable experience owning and operating business critical systems servicing internal and external customers Comfortable both hands-on coding and skilled at explaining and advocating for new technologies and solutions, experience using AI technology solving real-world problems is a big plus. Demonstrable ability to participate building vision, defining a roadmap, and to execute on it Capability to truly listen to our customers and partners, internalize their needs and develop simple and elegant solutions that they can’t live without

Requirements

B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent industry experience
7+ years of progressing work experience in software development
1+ years leading and developing software development teams with professional full SDLC software development experience
4+ years hands-on software development experience of backend services
2+ years working in private or public cloud environments
Proficiency in Java or Python

Nice To Haves

Transportation or Supply Chain working experience is highly preferred
experience using AI technology solving real-world problems is a big plus.

Responsibilities

Full leadership responsibility of the deliverable outcome of engineering teams via partnership with product management and business stakeholders
Identify and develop talented engineers and leaders, foster a healthy and collaborative culture for your team that embodies both industry best practices and Nordstrom values
Ownership and accountability over creating new systems, supporting, and evolving existing systems
Influence/make technology decisions for the platform and all of Nordstrom
Leads distributed teams cross time-zones
Demonstrable experience owning and operating business critical systems servicing internal and external customers
Comfortable both hands-on coding and skilled at explaining and advocating for new technologies and solutions, experience using AI technology solving real-world problems is a big plus.
Demonstrable ability to participate building vision, defining a roadmap, and to execute on it
Capability to truly listen to our customers and partners, internalize their needs and develop simple and elegant solutions that they can’t live without