Director, Global Engineering Strategy & Enablement

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Starbucks is seeking a Director of Engineering for Global Technology Strategy & Enablement in Nashville, TN. The role shapes how technology is designed, standardized, and scaled across markets and will align US-based and regional teams to build once and deploy globally.

You will lead senior engineering leaders, define architecture standards, reference patterns, and governance while driving regional roadmaps toward common platforms and reduced fragmentation.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern engineering ecosystems, including cloud platforms, application development, and integration architecture.
• Proven track record setting technology strategy and translating it into standards, reference architectures, and practices that teams genuinely adopt.
• Experience leading engineering across multiple markets or regions, balancing global consistency with local operating realities.
• Strong record of influence without authority, aligning peer engineering, product, and business leaders around shared platforms and shared outcomes.
• Experience partnering with central or enterprise technology groups and digital product teams to shape roadmaps and land capability in region.
• Ability to identify duplication, fragmentation, and platform gaps, and to build the business case for consolidating on common solutions.

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.
• Represent international needs in global technology forums, influencing roadmaps and design decisions without direct authority.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture standards

Cloud platforms

Enterprise integration

Influence without authority

Cross-market collaboration

Job description

Starbucks is seeking a Director of Engineering for Global Technology Strategy & Enablement in Nashville, TN. The role shapes how technology is designed, standardized, and scaled across markets and will align US-based and regional teams to build once and deploy globally.

You will lead senior engineering leaders, define architecture standards, reference patterns, and governance while driving regional roadmaps toward common platforms and reduced fragmentation.