Manager, Software Engineering - ITC

NIKE, Inc. is looking for a dynamic engineering manager with a passion for building and leading high-performing software engineering teams. This role leads the design, development, maintenance, and support of scalable web applications and data-driven services across employee experience, communications, workplace technology, resilience, sensing, data engineering, and AI functions.

Who You’ll Work With

The Digital Employee Experience and Office of General Counsel Technology team uses data and technology to support employee communication and engagement, internal and external listening and sensing, corporate workplace technologies, employee safety, and protection of Nike products and assets.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or a suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• 10 years of software development experience with a strong foundation in hands-on full-stack development.
• 5 years of experience leading engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing talent.
• Expertise in AWS serverless services, Node.js, React, Terraform, and Python.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks.
• Expertise with AWS and building and operating cloud services.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.
• Familiarity with Copilot Studio and Cursor.
• Strong understanding of architectural design patterns, API-first development, engineering best practices, and core computer science principles.
• Proven ability to deliver high-impact, scalable services.
• Strong written, technical communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with GenAI and LLM applications, MCP, or agentic architectures.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of software engineers responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and supporting web applications and data-driven services.
• Lead engineering for scalable front-end and back-end systems.
• Oversee software development including ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
• Drive the design and development of reusable frameworks, automated workflows, and libraries at scale.
• Improve productivity and efficiency through AI-enabled engineering approaches.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering leaders to define and execute the technical roadmap.
• Foster continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Ensure adherence to software development, data governance, and platform observability best practices.
• Align engineering initiatives with modernization, simplification, cloud cost optimization, and data governance goals.
• Direct enterprise sensing programs, including survey design, stakeholder enablement, custom dashboards, NLP and sentiment analysis, and automation workflows.
• Direct development of internal communications and employee experience platforms, including enterprise AI assistants, MCP-based integrations, corporate search, React and Node.js services on AWS, and Databricks-backed data pipelines.

NIKE, Inc. offers a total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional development. Nike is an equal opportunity employer.