Sporting Fashion & Goods
Director, Software Engineering Core Cloud, ITC
Senior Level
Karnataka, India
in office
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The Director of Software Engineering will own the Management Plane, the platform layer enabling multi-cloud access, entitlements, governance, account lifecycle, and cloud cost optimization at Nike. The role leads multiple engineering squads within the Cloud & Core Engineering team, partnering with global counterparts, product, architecture, and platform teams, and reports to the Senior Director Software Engineering leading Cloud Gov, FinOps & Management Plane capabilities. This is a high-ownership leadership position requiring strong technical depth, people leadership, and platform thinking.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and grow 3–4 engineering squads, managing managers, principals, and senior engineers
- Define technical direction and build a high-performance engineering culture within ITC
- Drive multi-year platform roadmap and translate strategy into quarterly execution plans and OKRs
- Own cloud governance systems including access management, RBAC, and policy guardrails
- Advance cloud economics through FinOps tooling and optimization initiatives
- Enable AI-native engineering practices using automation and agent-based patterns
- Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and security through SLOs and strong engineering standards
- Partner with global teams to establish ITC as a strategic engineering hub
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 15+ years leading engineering teams, including 3+ years at Director level managing managers or senior ICs
- Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams, including hiring and retaining senior talent
- Proven ability to translate multi-year strategy into squad-level roadmaps with measurable OKRs and clear dependency management across the stack
- Strong experience co-owning global platforms with distributed teams, driving alignment on priorities, architectural decisions, and operating model without escalation dependency
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS engineering experience (not just conversational cloud literacy)
- Expertise in cloud governance, entitlements, or policy systems, IAM/RBAC, and policy guardrails at enterprise scale
- Exposure to cloud economics / FinOps including cost attribution and optimization
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, or CDK
- Strong background in distributed systems including Kubernetes, APIs, and event-driven architecture
- Ability to review and reason about Python/JavaScript code and infrastructure patterns
- Experience designing or integrating AI / agentic capabilities into platform products, not just awareness; have shipped or materially influenced AI capabilities with measurable impact (TTR, reduced human engagement, improved compliance)
- Understanding of modern architecture: microservices, APIs, and security-by-design
- Experience in Agile/DevOps environments with CI/CD and SLO-driven operations
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- Hands-on ability to engage in architectural discussions, influence platform direction, and translate business strategy into executable engineering roadmaps
Preferred Skills
- AWS/Azure certifications
- Developer platform experience
- FinOps tooling
- AIOps exposure
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