Global Tech Strategy & Enablement Director

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

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