Senior Director, Software Engineering - Data Streaming Platforms & Operational DBs

Position Type Full Time Career area Software Engineering Location 1 Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, Oregon 97005, United States Job ID R-92373* Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s 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, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Who We Are

Looking For

We are seeking a senior technology leader to set the strategy, engineering, and operations for Nike’s data streaming, data integration, and operational database platforms. These foundational capabilities support critical business experiences across commerce, supply chain, marketing, corporate function and product innovation.

The ideal candidate is a builder-operator with deep experience leading enterprise platform organizations, developing high-performing teams, modernizing distributed systems, and connecting technology strategy to measurable business outcomes. You will lead through leaders, influence across Nike, and build secure, resilient, cost-effective platforms that accelerate the business.

What You Will

Work On

• Define the multi-year strategy and roadmap for data streaming, data integration and operational database platforms.
• Modernize platforms toward highly available, multi-region, resilient, and operationally excellent services.
• Establish standards for event-driven architecture, streaming, schema and data contracts, replication, performance, security, and disaster recovery.
• Simplify the technology landscape by consolidating foundational capabilities and retiring legacy solutions.
• Drive self-service experiences, automation, developer productivity, and adoption across Nike engineering teams.
• Own reliability, operational readiness, risk reduction, vendor strategy, and total cost of ownership.
• Build and develop a diverse, high-performing organization of engineering leaders and teams across geographies.
• Communicate strategy, trade-offs, risks, and business impact to senior executives and stakeholders.

Who You Will

Work With

You will partner across Platform Engineering, Global Technology, Product, Architecture, Security, Data and AI, and business-domain engineering teams.

Key partners include:

• Engineering and SRE teams on architecture, reliability, and operating standards.
• Product and program leaders on platform capabilities, adoption, and outcomes.
• Domain teams across commerce, supply chain, marketing, corporate function, and product innovation.
• Governance, Security, Privacy, Finance, Procurement, and strategic technology vendors.
• Global Technology leadership on priorities, dependencies, and enterprise alignment.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• Advanced degree in computer science, software engineering or information systems preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in software, platform, or data infrastructure engineering.
• 5+ years leading engineering organizations through managers and senior leaders in global or matrixed environments.
• Deep experience operating distributed systems, real-time data platforms, and high-volume transaction-processing environments.
• Strong knowledge of streaming and messaging architectures, Kafka-based platforms, stream processing, schema management, data contracts, and replication.
• Strong knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases, including scaling, performance, partitioning, backup, recovery, and multi-region design.
• Experience delivering cloud-native platforms with automation, infrastructure-as-code, security, and resilience practices.
• Demonstrated ability to define strategy, make architecture trade-offs, drive modernization, and connect technology decisions to business outcomes.
• Experience with enterprise security, privacy, risk management, vendor relationships, and financial stewardship.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Critical Skills

• Strategic leadership and a track record of delivering results at enterprise scale.
• Builder-operator mindset with strong technical judgment.
• Ability to lead through leaders, build organizational capability, and establish accountability.
• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and drive collective decisions.
• Strong business acumen, executive presence, and change leadership.
• Commitment to inclusive leadership, diverse teams, and continuous learning.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person 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.

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 an equal opportunity employer. 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.

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What You Can Expect

OUR HIRING GAME PLAN

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01 Apply

Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.

02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment

If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.

03 Interview

Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.