Sr. Engineering Manager, Data Streaming Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Nordstrom•Seattle, WA

2d•$191,000 - $297,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Our Data Streaming Platform team is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to support our data streaming platform (ownership of real-time data pipelines and streaming infrastructure built on Kafka, Temporal, and Airflow). Qualified candidates must be able to help foster an inspiring workplace where talented people feel empowered to drive operational excellence, mature compliance practices, and business results. As a Sr. Engineering Manager for the platform team, you will report to the Sr. Director of Engineering and lead a distributed team of software engineers. In partnership with technical program management, you will define processes and measurements to ensure strength in performance and delivery. You will own technical solutions—in accordance with Nordstrom’s engineering standards—and you will be accountable for recruiting and hiring talent as well as coaching and mentoring your team members in their career. You are a highly technical leader with a bias towards action and the ability to drive consensus. You are comfortable discussing software architecture and leveraging data to influence decisions. You have a proven understanding of the fundamentals of agile processes, deep knowledge of software development lifecycle and an experience to draw from that helps you build towards a future state while making smart tradeoffs to meet current objectives. You are a creative problem solver, and you know how to measure and improve your products and teams. The Data Streaming Platform team enables real-time data movement and event-driven infrastructure that powers our company’s strategic objectives. To support these activities, we must also focus on providing a secure, scalable, and highly available streaming infrastructure and operational environment.

Requirements

A BA/BS in Computer Science or closely related degree or equivalent practical experience
10+ years of software engineering industry experience, or similar
5+ years of managing a team
Technology background, especially in cloud-based, event-driven architecture with a deep understanding of distributed systems and streaming data pipelines, and a passion for data and analytics
Proven track record of leading large cross-functional software projects.
Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
Demonstrable experience owning and operating business critical systems servicing internal and external customers
Experience working with cloud technologies, manage scalable solutions that are truly full-stack: frontend, backend, data engineering, DB, dev-ops, CI/CD, support
Exposure to tech stacks like Kafka for event streaming, Temporal for workflow orchestration, and Airflow for batch/data pipeline scheduling, along with Java or Python for services

Responsibilities

Assist in enhancing the Data Streaming Platform vision and strategies to support company goals.
Guide and motivate a highly talented team to deliver quickly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver efficient technical solutions aligned with business needs
Manage complex scope of work with multiple tracks in progress at a given time including operational excellence operating in true DevOps model
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)
Partner with Program, Product, and Business teams to establish short-term goals and long-term vision, including OKRs and other measurements of success
Connect with leadership and partners to bring back the broader business context to the engineering team, establishing how their work matters to the business
Develop growth plans with engineers based on opportunities, their interests, Nordstrom Competencies, and our Tech Talent Framework
Hire capable and motivated talent/teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver solutions aligned with business needs
End to end ownership of cross-functional projects, including product definition, roadmap planning, resource planning and project execution
Driving the roadmap and vision for the teams, collaborate with product groups and partner teams to deliver value to our customers
Owns direct communication with leadership team.
At the heart of this role is delivery. You will be hands-on in driving the delivery of critical business initiatives, managing all aspects of the project such as project planning, budget tracking, requirements definition, risk management, communication, and implementation planning