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Director of Data Engineering & Business Intelligence, Nordstrom Analytical Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Nordstrom Inc
Seattle, WA
Full-time

Description

Come join us in a key leadership role revolutionizing Nordstrom’s data landscape! We are transforming a set of batch-centric data marts into a cutting-edge analytics platform that collects, transforms, stores, and serves critical data and insights across all facets of Nordstrom’s business.

Our new Nordstrom Analytics Platform (NAP) provides a wide range of data services, from raw source event data through to highly-processed insights and machine learning (ML) models.

NAP is an event-first, streaming, and near-real-time data substrate. We serve the data needs of many types of users, including data scientists, analysts, engineers, and business leaders - regardless of use case, our customers depend on us for high quality, timely, and trusted data.

At Nordstrom we believe the role of a leader is to support the needs of their team. In this role, you would be supporting a large team of engineers, data engineers and data analysts, including your own leadership team of senior engineering managersandengineering managers.

As a Director of NAP, you will be at the heart of data, analytics, and ML for the entire company. You will raise the technology bar for your team, helping them to deliver their best work.

You will also help the managers on your team grow, identifying teachable moments, training and work that supports their career goals.

A day in the life

Crafts NAP vision and strategies to support company objectives and goal

Creates mechanisms for the managers on their team to have clarity, autonomy, and support in execution

Drives organizational structure and talent management plans to meet needs of their organization

Identifies and develops leaders

Has ownership and accountability over creating and evolving systems related to people, process, and technology

Drives architectural decisions shaping the data platform undergirding all of Nordstrom’s business, creating scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions

Drives and influences the technology strategy and roadmap for NAP, collaborating with product groups and partner teams to deliver value to our customers

Develops and fostering a healthy and collaborative culture for your team that embodies both industry best practices and Nordstrom values

Influences, coaches, and mentors as a matter of course, in all interactions with their team

Hires capable and motivated talent / teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver solutions aligned with business needs

You own this if you have

10+ years of relevant work experience in software development

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, with a master’s degree preferred or equivalent experience

5+ years of experience in enterprise team leadership in dynamic, high-scale environments

2+ years managing managers

Background in Business Intelligence

Experience working with ML and AI technologies and concepts

A proven track record of individual excellence and a demonstrated commitment to making others great. You are intimately familiar with modern software development practices but lean on collaboration in addition to processes to drive outcomes.

Strong customer and stakeholder empathy. You must be not only the voice of the customer. You must be able to channel many points of view, synthesize them and drive alignment even in times

Strong negotiating and influencing skills

Retail or ecommerce domain experience is a plus

Hybrid-LI

We’ve got you covered

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including :

  • Medical / Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
  • Life Insurance and Disability
  • Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

A few more important points...

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

30+ days ago
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