Director of Software Engineering

About the Role

In this critical leadership role, you will be accountable for all new capabilities for our highly scaled physical and logical inventory back-end services powering Gap Inc.

s platforms (Web, allocation, order brokering, and reporting). You will be leading a high-performance engineering team practicing best-in-class DevOps and continuous delivery engineering practices.

In addition, you will be responsible for working with your Product Management, Architecture and Technical Program Management peers to build end-to-end product delivery and technology plans for this area, across of all Gap Inc.’s brands and markets.

A key part of your responsibilities will include instituting the right processes and practices to ensure high availability of all your applications and services at scale, while leading your team’s Cloud-based technical roadmap.

In your role, you will also lead oversight for the total cost of ownership for building, testing, and running your products in Production ensuring on time and on budget delivery.

What You'll Do

• Accountable for ensuring overall strategy, delivering excellence and high availability for the cloud-based physical and logical inventory accuracy at Gap Inc.
• Lead product and technical roadmap planning for the group, actively collaborating with key architecture, product, operations, and program management partners.
• Successfully ensure delivery execution of large complex product initiatives consisting of multiple cross- functional / organizational Agile teams.
• Maintain overall financial oversite as part of total cost of ownership for building all your product capabilities, product support, and cloud consumption costs.
• Participate in continuous delivery improvement efforts, with modern agile, lean and design thinking practices.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight to a high-performance team of engineer managers and engineers across product delivery, technology decisions, engineering best practices and transformation.
• Evaluate business needs, research, and formulate application solutions, and make solution recommendation to Gap Tech leadership.

Who You Are

• Engineering leadership experience with managing services at high scale, preferably in a retail setting.
• Deep end-to- end technical knowledge building and running high performing, high availability applications.
• Domain expertise with inventory services, including transaction processing and complex aggregation is highly desired.
• Ability to credibly challenge technical design decisions and approaches with exceptionally talented product managers, architects, and engineers.
• Proficient and direct experience with Java, J2EE, Spring, Messaging services, API design, Cassandra Database systems and high-volume, multi-threaded microservices.
• Experience leading leaders and independent, high performing teams with demonstrated understanding of modern software development and infrastructure tools, processes, and practices including Agile Development, Cloud an DevOps.
• Experience collaborating with product and program management to build detailed product and technical roadmaps that consistently meet budget / time expectations.
• Strong executive presence and experience advising and interfacing with senior executives and business leadership on technology related issues, excellent executive- level verbal and written communication.
• Bachelor’s degree from a accredited college, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
12 days ago