Sr. Engineering Manager, Data Streaming Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Nordstrom; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision, Dental

Retirement plan

PTO and Disability insurance

Job summary

Nordstrom seeks a Sr. Engineering Manager for the Data Streaming Platform in Seattle. You will lead a distributed team responsible for real-time data pipelines built on Kafka, Temporal, and Airflow, driving operational excellence and scalable, secure streaming infrastructure.

You will recruit, mentor, and guide engineers, define delivery processes, and partner with product and business teams to align technical work with Nordstrom’s strategic goals.

Qualifications

• A BA/BS in Computer Science or closely related degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering industry experience, or similar.
• 5+ years of managing a team.
• Experience with cloud-based, event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
• Proven track record leading large cross-functional software projects.
• Strong customer relationship skills and ability to translate requirements into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed software engineering team to deliver scalable streaming infrastructure.
• Own end-to-end delivery of cross-functional initiatives, including product definition and roadmap.
• Coach and mentor engineers; recruit and hire talent; define growth plans.
• Partner with Product, Program, and Business teams to set OKRs and success metrics.
• Drive architecture discussions and DevOps practices across the stack.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architectures

Streaming data

Kafka

Temporal

Airflow

Java

Python

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or closely related degree

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Airflow

Job description

Job Description

Our Data Streaming Platform team is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to support our data streaming platform (ownership of real-time data pipelines and streaming infrastructure built on Kafka, Temporal, and Airflow). Qualified candidates must be able to help foster an inspiring workplace where talented people feel empowered to drive operational excellence, mature compliance practices, and business results. As a Sr. Engineering Manager for the platform team, you will report to the Sr. Director of Engineering and lead a distributed team of software engineers. In partnership with technical program management, you will define processes and measurements to ensure strength in performance and delivery. You will own technical solutions—in accordance with Nordstrom’s engineering standards—and you will be accountable for recruiting and hiring talent as well as coaching and mentoring your team members in their career.

You are a highly technical leader with a bias towards action and the ability to drive consensus. You are comfortable discussing software architecture and leveraging data to influence decisions. You have a proven understanding of the fundamentals of agile processes, deep knowledge of software development lifecycle and an experience to draw from that helps you build towards a future state while making smart tradeoffs to meet current objectives. You are a creative problem solver, and you know how to measure and improve your products and teams.

The Data Streaming Platform team enables real-time data movement and event-driven infrastructure that powers our company’s strategic objectives. To support these activities, we must also focus on providing a secure, scalable, and highly available streaming infrastructure and operational environment.

This role is offered as hybrid in Seattle, WA. Candidates must be available to work in office at the Nordstrom corporate headquarters a minimum of 4 days/week to be considered for this position.

A day in the life…

• Assist in enhancing the Data Streaming Platform vision and strategies to support company goals.
• Guide and motivate a highly talented team to deliver quickly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver efficient technical solutions aligned with business needs
• Manage complex scope of work with multiple tracks in progress at a given time including operational excellence operating in true DevOps model
• Contribute to architecture, coding, test plans, project plans, deployment planning, and operations to drive excellence and lead team towards its goals
• Employ continuous improvement methodologies across own team (e.g. quantifies impacts customer first, waste elimination, increased productivity, iterates quickly, shorten feedback loop, experience creating relevant KPIs)
• Partner with Program, Product, and Business teams to establish short-term goals and long-term vision, including OKRs and other measurements of success
• Connect with leadership and partners to bring back the broader business context to the engineering team, establishing how their work matters to the business
• Develop growth plans with engineers based on opportunities, their interests, Nordstrom Competencies, and our Tech Talent Framework
• Hire capable and motivated talent/teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver solutions aligned with businessneeds
• End to end ownership of cross-functional projects, including product definition, roadmap planning, resource planning and project execution
• Driving the roadmap and vision for the teams, collaborate with product groups and partner teams to deliver value to ourcustomers
• Owns direct communication withleadershipteam.
• At the heart of this role is delivery. You will be hands-on in driving the delivery of critical business initiatives, managing all aspects of the project such as project planning, budget tracking, requirements definition, risk management, communication, and implementation planning

You own this if you have…

• A BA/BS in Computer Science or closely related degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of software engineering industry experience, or similar
• 5+ years of managing a team
• Technology background, especially in cloud-based, event-driven architecture with a deep understanding of distributed systems and streaming data pipelines, and a passion for data and analytics
• Proven track record of leading large cross-functional software projects.
• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
• Demonstrable experience owning and operating business critical systems servicing internal and external customers
• Experience working with cloud technologies, manage scalable solutions that are truly full-stack: frontend, backend, data engineering, DB, dev-ops, CI/CD, support
• Exposure to tech stacks like Kafka for event streaming, Temporal for workflow orchestration, and Airflow for batch/data pipeline scheduling, along with Java or Python for services

Pay Range Details

The pay range(s) below has been provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different for other locations.

Pay offers are dependent on the location, as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

$191,000.00 - $297,000.00 Annual

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Benefits

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf

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