Senior Manager, Software Engineering, ITC

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering, NRT leads Near-Realtime (NRT) teams under the Data Streaming Platform area within the AI, Platform Engineering & DevX (APEX) organisation. The role involves building and supporting petabyte-class solutions that consume fast-moving streams from eCommerce, retail and partner channels to power critical business decisions. It is part of Nike's Digital Transformation initiative to deliver efficient data access, reliable data integration platforms, enhanced compliance and reduced risk.

• Spend approximately 60% of time on technology and 40% on management.
• Build and deliver modern foundational platforms that provide data engineering orchestration capabilities and modernise the enterprise-level data integration landscape.
• Drive the team to establish standard methodologies, define success and develop critical metrics to continuously evolve feature delivery and scale production operations.
• Partner and engage with multiple data engineering squads and their leadership to align on a platform-centric roadmap and requirements supporting thousands of data engineers and data scientists.
• Work closely with engineering leadership, product leadership, architects and program teams to develop and contribute to foundational platform roadmaps.
• Partner with principal engineers and principal architects to develop tools and frameworks for improving security, reliability, maintainability, availability, scalability, self-serviceability and performance of the platform foundation.
• Set technical direction when requirements and technical direction are unclear, measure results and adjust accordingly.
• Help break down technical work during sprint planning and ensure product and technical features are delivered to specification and on time.
• Ensure solutions are designed and developed using a scalable and resilient cloud-native architecture.
• Coach, mentor, grow, groom and hire best-in-class engineering talent.
• Embrace and embody Nike's core values (maxims) in work and interactions with peers, stakeholders and direct reports.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 13–15 years of related experience with strong technical understanding of Apache/Confluent Kafka and Apache NiFi.
• At least 5–7 years of experience in people management, leading multiple teams globally.
• Detailed understanding and experience in Docker, Kubernetes/EKS and ECS.
• Good understanding and experience with DevOps practices and tech stack including Terraform, Jenkins, Puppet and GitHub.
• Good hands-on working experience in the AWS ecosystem.
• Experience with API-first architecture design, distributed systems (e.g., microservices, virtualisation) and cloud infrastructure for large-scale data warehouses, data lakes and data fabric.
• Strong communication skills, ability to influence, solve complex problems, and leadership ability while being a team player.
• High emotional intelligence with the ability to bring diverse groups together to solve common goals.
• Focused leader of people and teams dedicated to empowering and growing team members rooted in trust and aligned to Nike's Maxims.
• Skilled in providing analysis and estimation of the strategic and financial value of new products and features.
• Pragmatic mindset, highly focused on delivery and customer value rooted in continuous delivery of world-class resilient, scalable systems.
• Expert knowledge of the business, technology standards, managing people and projects.
• Readiness and motivation to manage a sizeable group or team of IT professionals.
• A strong understanding of technical concepts, excellent attention to detail, data accuracy and management, strong verbal and written communication skills, self-motivation, a high sense of urgency and a high level of integrity.

• Experience managing a community of practice consisting of streaming developer/platform engineers responsible for facilitating real-time data streaming using Kafka and NiFi (strongly preferred).