Director Software Engineering, ITC

Overview

Director of Software Engineering to lead the design, build, and evolution of Nike’s modern data platforms and pipelines supporting digital transformation.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and manage a cross-functional team of data engineers building and operating scalable data platforms, pipelines, and services.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap in collaboration with product managers and other engineering leaders.
• Own architecture design and implementation including lakehouse platforms, curated data layers, APIs, and microservices.
• Ensure solutions are reliable, performant, secure, and observable using strong engineering standards and operational excellence.
• Champion data quality, lineage, governance, and metadata practices for trusted, self-service consumption.
• Enable advanced analytics and AI/ML with well-modeled, production-ready datasets by partnering with Intelligence and Analytics teams.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering and software development.
• 5+ years of experience leading and scaling high-performing technical teams.
• Proven success designing and operating modern cloud-based platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong understanding of data pipeline frameworks, metadata management, and data governance controls.
• Hands-on backend service knowledge in Java, Node.js, and/or Python plus microservices architecture experience.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS/Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka/Kinesis, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, and dbt.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Details

• Location: Karnataka, India.