director Engineering (Marketing Technology) - ST; Seattle, WA at Starbucks

Seattle, Washington, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

12 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

14 Oct, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Micro-Services, High Volume Distributed Systems, Cloud Native Applications, Data Lakes, Data Warehousing, Team Leadership, Enterprise Services Management, Software Development, Retail Solutions, Communication Skills, Presentation Skills, Governance Compliance, Technology Partnerships, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Technology Innovation

Industry

Retail

Description

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following: Establishes and maintains influential working relationships at all levels necessary to successfully promote technology strategies and innovation opportunities. Works with the Senior Leadership Team to identify significant opportunities, map them to the Company's strategic goals, achieve leadership alignment, and create plans against which to execute. Ensures a strategic understanding of technology evolution to anticipate technology needs for future enterprise architecture initiatives. Prepares, communicates and educates client groups and team(s) on changes in policies and practices within the organization. Develops and manages effective teams to develop and deliver on technology opportunities. Builds a leadership pipeline within the team, oversees of partners directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions. Provides coaching, direction, and leadership support to team members in order to achieve partner, business, and customer results. Develops broad-based business plans to anticipate technology needs and solutions for multiple functions and cross-functional products, platforms, and/or services. Facilitates governance and compliance of standards to ensure optimization of investment. Identifies and assesses technology best practices for replication in all units and lines of business. Investigates functional redundancy or gaps in systems in order to identify opportunities to improve efficiency or execution. Leads research, analysis and reporting to support business development and merger and acquisition opportunities. Leads the identification and negotiation of strategic technology partnerships and contributes to enterprise sourcing contracts to achieve broad business benefit and competitive advantage. Leads the senior management team in identifying options and return on investment of technology investments. Experience with micro-services environment running at very high requests/sec (10K/sec) Experience with building and managing high volume distributed transactional systems Experience with building cloud native applications Experience with data lakes / data warehousing systems 10+ years' experience building and leading teams of engineers. Enterprise services product management or ownership experience. Prior experience leading the design, execution, and continuous improvement of enterprise-wide, complex products and/or services. Deep subject matter expertise in Marketing platforms. Demonstrated experience directing the software development function, including the process, design, development, delivery and maintenance of software products and services. Demonstrated experience developing and delivering solutions for retail, internet, or similar companies. Exceptional communication and presentation skills: you can communicate conceptual ideas, engineering rationale and technical challenges both verbally and visually, to a wide range of audiences. Experience working with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

The Director of Engineering will establish influential relationships to promote technology strategies and work with senior leadership to align technology opportunities with strategic goals. They will lead teams to develop technology solutions and ensure compliance with governance standards.