Distinguished Engineer Supply Chain Technology

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NIKE Inc. does more than outfit the worlds best athletes. It is a place to explore potential obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow think dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers leaders and visionaries. At Nike its about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer who will be part of a team passionate about building and running all the technology applications that power supply chain operations for Nike. This is a critical senior technical leadership role that will own the transformation of applications that are critical for operating and growing Nikes business profitably.

A successful candidate will be an engineering thought leader and coach with deep technical expertise and delivery experience in mentoring and coaching multiple engineering teams including partner teams to foster a collaborative and innovative engineering culture. They should be proficient in resolving technical business and organizational difficulties facilitating learning and development within the organization and creating links to strategic allies through technology and internal processes. The selected candidate for this role will have a consistent track record of driving change and transformation in delivering modern supply chain applications that leverage data machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver global supply chain solutions that are highly accurate and extremely productive. The selected candidate will also have a track record in making strategic decisions on build/buy on all layers of supply chain applications (data foundations decisioning models simulation engines and user experience).

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

In this role you will translate business strategies and objectives into strategic technical direction leading implementations and have these key responsibilities:

• Lead engineering strategy and for our critical global supply chain applications including:

  • Warehouse management solutions

  • Warehouse automaton solutions

  • Logistics Optimization Inbound Transportation Management and Trade

  • Logistics Optimization Outbound Transportation Management and Carrier integrations

  • Inventory availability and order fulfillment

  • Customer Order Management and return

• Be the lead conduit to work with other engineering teams in GAME ED&AI ERP and others to ensure our practices for integrations are modern optimal and sustainable.

• Be the chief engineer in supply chain domains to ensure right choices are made on build/buy design and engineering patterns devops and approach for AI/ML covering applications we buy/build and applications we integrate with.

• Ensure that all applications in the supply chain domain have clearly defined and measurable metrics to cover all aspects of operations such as speed resilience cost information security and agility.

• Lead feasibility analysis and serve as a technical leader for the most sophisticated multifunctional initiatives.

• Lead the transition of existing infrastructure to cloud and edge environments ensuring seamless migration and integration.

• Quickly and deeply diagnose the most difficult technical issues in supply chain applications domain.

• Develop technical roadmaps for supply chain applications aligning with the strategic goals.

• Mentor and coach engineers in best practices for cloud architecture security and performance.

• Advise senior management and stakeholders on advanced/emerging technologies and their applications in software engineering including data and AI/ML.

• Establish bestpractice software engineering methodologies for a global 24x7 highvolume highavailability highly analytical and critical production environment based on metricsbased KPIs.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This role reports to the VP of Supply Chain and Planning and will connect across the domain. This role partners closely with Domain teams (Product and Engineering) ED&AI GAME ERP the Distinguished Engineering Community and key partners across Global and Geographies. This role works on all supply chain applications globally .

WHAT YOU BRING

To make it clear were not looking for just anyone! Were looking for someone special someone who has these experiences and clearly demonstrates these skills:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent experience.

• 15 years software engineering experience as an individual contributor developing custom software using common systems like Java Python Rust and/or JavaScript.

• 7 years professional experience with AWS or other major cloud provider.

• 5 years in a lead engineering role for building and maintaining supply chain applications in retail or adjacent industries. This should include scaled deployment of WMS and TMS.

• 7 years experience in working with highscale businesses with complex data infrastructure.

• Engineering lifecycle management of software infrastructure.

• Experience in working with a productoriented culture.

• Prior experience in working with engineering teams through major technology transitions.

NIKE Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package casual work environment a diverse and inclusive culture and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location or the role every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion sex national origin age sexual orientation gender identity gender expression veteran status or disability.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for inperson interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.