Manager, Software Engineering, ITC

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

As an Engineering Manager you will report to an Senior Engineering Manager and collaborate closely with a Principal Engineer, Product Manager and cross functional teams along with guiding and mentoring a team of engineers to deliver scalable solutions that meet business objectives.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As an Engineering Manager for Athlete Tools & Consumer Order team, you will be leading an Engineering team passionate about aligning strategic objectives with tactical demands. Your primary job is to build a collaborative culture on the team and empower your team to solve problems quickly. You will be instrumental in creating a team with a strong focus on instilling trust, effective collaboration, high performance culture and mindset to exceed business expectations and outcomes. Ability to navigate in a complex matrixed organization and lead the team towards successful delivery and individual career growth. In this role we are looking for a high performing Engineering Manager to play a critical role in building Inventory product capabilities.

• Architect Scalable Solutions: Define technical strategies and design highly scalable backend systems and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud technologies on AWS.
• Technical Leadership: Guide and mentor engineering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions, advocating for best practices in coding, testing, and continuous delivery.
• API Design: Spearhead the design of robust and well-documented RESTful APIs to enable seamless integrations across inventory platforms.
• Cloud-Native Deployment: Oversee deployment of services on AWS, ensuring optimal use of cloud resources (e.g., Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFormation).
• Performance Optimization: Continuously evaluate system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to support large-scale inventory operations.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and other Engineering leaders to define technical roadmaps, prioritize deliverables, and align with business goals.
• Security and Reliability: Ensure solutions adhere to industry best practices for security, availability, and reliability, while adapting to evolving business needs.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay ahead of emerging technologies, advocate modernization, and foster an environment of learning and growth within the team.
• Coach and develop the talent : Conduct regular 1:1s, provide constructive feedback and help achieve career aspirations of the team members.

• Prior experience (at least 2+ years) in the Supply Chain Technology solutions in the retail/digital commerce. Have an in-depth understanding of the Order Management systems in the e-Commerce. Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Information Systems or other relevant subject area related to information technology
• Overall 12+ years of IT experience building customer centric software products or solutions with a focus on the Supply Chain domain technology solutions
• Experience in retail domain is mandatory.
• 4+ years of professional experience in Enterprise Technology Solutions including end-to-end Business Blueprinting, development, testing, support, and post implementation tech solution refinement
• A minimum of 3 years management experience (as direct people manager or equivalent of managing engineers) of high performing software engineering teams and total 12+ years of experience in software development.
• Leadership in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment.
• Exposure to backend development skills in Java/Spring.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Excellent understanding of business processes in the consumer order management space
• Hands on development and configuration in supporting product needs.
• Experience with Integration frameworks and design patterns
• Expertise in building cloud scalable, real time and high-performance application and solutions
• In-depth knowledge and experience Engineering essentials such as languages (Java, Python or other scripting languages), source control, relational and non-relational databases
• Expert knowledge and experience with a diversity of tools and platforms
• Experience with micro service and full stack architecture
• Proven ability to rapidly learn new technologies, developing and implementing proof of concepts
• Experience developing applications that has data and app complexity
• Experience with Scrum and other Agile processes.
• Knowledge of Jira, Git/SVN, Jenkins
• Willingness to explore new technologies and creative solutions.
• Strong at estimating work, planning, organization, and implementing complex software projects.
• Experience with implementing CI/CD and leading teams with DevOps responsibilities of deploying and supporting the software in production.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Comfortable working with globally distributed and diverse teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.

• You will report into the Senior Engineering Manager for your capability area.
• Works closely with Geographies and Marketplace Experience (GAME) leadership to develop consumer order vision, strategy and execution plans that are aligned with business outcomes
• Partners with Technical Product Management and Business Product Management to ensure outcomes are aligned with Business expectations
• Partners with Engineering Directors and other Engineering Managers to build an effective team and partnership with stakeholders
• Engage with program manager/product manager to define and align with product roadmap, schedule and timelines
• Work with Engineers on the team to provide full context and understanding of customers and business requirements to create valuable solutions.