Engineering Manager, Digital Insights & Analytics

Nordstrom Inc; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision

Dental

Retirement

PTO

Merchandise Discount

Life Insurance

Job summary

Nordstrom is seeking an Engineering Manager for Digital Insights & Delivery in Seattle. You will lead a small team building data pipelines, models, and reporting powering digital metrics and forecasting.

You’ll shape data strategy, collaborate with product and marketing analytics, and drive reliable, scalable analytics infrastructure. You will mentor senior engineers, ensure delivery discipline, and partner with platform teams to deliver trusted analytics for web and app data at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in data engineering.
• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams, or strong tech-lead experience ready to step into people management.
• Depth in data engineering — building and operating data pipelines at scale with strong SQL, a modern cloud data stack, distributed systems, and event streaming
• Hands-on experience with web analytics data — behavioral or clickstream data at scale.
• Demonstrated agile delivery discipline: a team that ships what it commits to, on the date it commits to.
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive alignment on a coherent digital analytics strategy across product, marketing analytics, and platform teams.
• Lead a small team of senior data engineers and analysts, setting expectations for technical quality and career development.
• Own a high-scale data platform turning raw web/app interactions into near real-time session-level data.
• Ensure data modeling, transformation, and quality meet business needs and facilitate trusted analytics.
• Translate complex data work into clear business value for partners across merchandising, marketing, and digital strategy.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Cloud data stack

Team leadership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder mgmt

Behavioral analytics

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GA4

Looker

Tableau

BigQuery

dbt

Job description

Nordstrom is seeking an Engineering Manager for Digital Insights & Delivery in Seattle. You will lead a small team building data pipelines, models, and reporting powering digital metrics and forecasting.

You’ll shape data strategy, collaborate with product and marketing analytics, and drive reliable, scalable analytics infrastructure. You will mentor senior engineers, ensure delivery discipline, and partner with platform teams to deliver trusted analytics for web and app data at scale.