Engineering Director - Platform & AI, Hybrid

Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Vacation accrual plan

Flexible schedules

401K with company match

Company paid life insurance

DailyPay

Job summary

Sprouts Farmers Market is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a large, multi-discipline team responsible for defined product domains. You will set objectives, delivery priorities, and operating plans with a horizon of over a year, coaching leads and engineers across software, data, ML/AI, and reliability.

The role reports to the Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ, and uses a hybrid work model with in-office presence Tue–Thu.

Qualifications

• Leads a large, multi-discipline engineering team responsible for a defined product, service, or platform domain.
• Owns team objectives, delivery priorities, and operating plans with a timeframe of at least one year; develops team leads and senior engineers.
• Partners with Principal and senior technical leaders to set architecture, engineering practices, and delivery across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of a defined product, service, or platform domain across disciplines and sub-teams.
• Establish multi-quarter team goals, delivery priorities, and operating plans; contribute to department planning and own operational results.
• Lead, direct, and review the work of engineering professionals and team leads across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and reliability disciplines.
• Coach and develop team leads and senior engineers; partner with Principal and senior technical leaders to set architecture, engineering standards, and cross-discipline delivery.
• Review architecture and major technical decisions to assess tradeoffs; review code as needed.
• Improve engineering processes, systems, and team practices across the assigned domain.
• Explain technical and delivery decisions and gain cooperation from Product, Design, Data, and senior leadership.
• Hire, onboard, develop, and manage performance and succession in accordance with company guidelines.
• Serve as the escalation point for incident response and corrective actions across the assigned domain.
• Own headcount planning, build the team-lead layer, and recommend structure changes as the organization grows.
• Manage vendor and co-build partner relationships and deliverables.

Skills

People leadership

Team management (10+ people)

Software engineering leadership

Cloud-native technologies

Code review & architecture

Delivery planning

Hiring & performance management

Cross-functional collaboration

Production programming experience (JS/

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

CI/CD

Job description

Sprouts Farmers Market is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a large, multi-discipline team responsible for defined product domains. You will set objectives, delivery priorities, and operating plans with a horizon of over a year, coaching leads and engineers across software, data, ML/AI, and reliability.

The role reports to the Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ, and uses a hybrid work model with in-office presence Tue–Thu.