dir engineering - Global Technology Strategy & Enablement - Starbucks

OpenTalent; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Starbucks in Nashville seeks a Director of Engineering to lead Global Technology Strategy & Enablement, shaping how technology is designed, standardized, and scaled across markets. You will own the global technology strategy for international retail and digital platforms, translating enterprise direction into regional roadmaps and ensuring consistent engineering standards.

You will lead senior engineering leaders, drive collaboration across US-based teams and regional partners, and deliver

Responsibilities

• Own the global technology strategy for international retail and digital platforms, translating enterprise direction into a clear, prioritized regional roadmap
• Partner with US-based Starbucks Technology teams and Starbucks Digital Solutions to shape global products so they scale cleanly into international markets
• Define and drive engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practice that regional teams design and build against
• Lead and develop a team of senior engineering leaders, setting direction, raising the technical bar, and growing their scope
• Drive consistency across regions, reducing duplicated builds, local variants, and fragmentation that slow adoption and raise cost to serve
• Enable regional and market teams to adopt global platforms through clear guidance, architecture review, and hands-on technical partnership
• Leverage Starbucks scale by identifying reusable capability, aligning shared investment, and making the case for build-once solutions
• Establish pragmatic governance that gives leaders visibility of architecture decisions, technology risk, and delivery health across markets

Job description

Now Brewing – dir engineering – Global Technology Strategy & Enablement – Nashville, TN

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others.

We’re looking for a director of engineering to lead Global Technology Strategy & Enablement, shaping how technology is designed, standardized, and scaled across Starbucks markets. This role sets the global technical direction for our retail and digital platforms and then makes it real in region—connecting US-based Starbucks Technology teams, Starbucks Digital Solutions, and regional teams so that we build once, adopt widely, and give every market the full benefit of Starbucks scale.

You’ll lead a team of senior engineering leaders and work through influence well beyond it. Partnering with US-based Starbucks Technology teams, Starbucks Digital Solutions, and regional technology leaders, you’ll define the architecture standards, reference patterns, and engineering practices that markets build against, and steer regional roadmaps toward common platforms rather than local variants. The work spans strategy, governance, and hands-on enablement: judging where a global product fits a market as-is, where it needs to flex, and where fragmentation is quietly costing us speed and money. Success looks like consistent engineering standards adopted across regions, faster deployment of global capability into market, and a clear, well-evidenced technology strategy that business and technology leaders act on.

As a director, engineering, you will …

Own the global technology strategy for international retail and digital platforms, translating enterprise direction into a clear, prioritized regional roadmap

Partner with US-based Starbucks Technology teams and Starbucks Digital Solutions to shape global products so they scale cleanly into international markets

Define and drive engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practice that regional teams design and build against

Lead and develop a team of senior engineering leaders, setting direction, raising the technical bar, and growing their scope

Drive consistency across regions, reducing duplicated builds, local variants, and fragmentation that slow adoption and raise cost to serve

Enable regional and market teams to adopt global platforms through clear guidance, architecture review, and hands-on technical partnership

Leverage Starbucks scale by identifying reusable capability, aligning shared investment, and making the case for build-once solutions

Establish pragmatic governance that gives leaders visibility of architecture decisions, technology risk, and delivery health across markets