About the Role

As Director, Engineering Leader, you will develop and maintain the customer experience across the Kohl’s MarTech ecosystem. You will oversee engineering teams, be an active participant in Kohl’s Technology Engineering Practice and work to advance great architecture and engineering across the organization. 

What You’ll Do

Drive the development of leading-edge engineering practices across assigned product lines

Drive the Engineering practice at the organization level and collaborate with partners to help drive technology decisions and choices to help improve efficiencies and reduce costs

Provide thought leadership and work closely with the enterprise architecture team to create a bi-directional communication path to bring new ideas and technologies to the company

Foster and drive consistent use of technologies and standards

Ensure that the developed software works and adheres to standards 

Lead the creation of engineering capabilities to reduce friction and increase output

Ensure that technologies are optimally used and appropriate patterns are used for solving the problem

Collaborate with engineering practice on technology roadmaps, understand industry best practices, and ensure the team is contributing to standard platforms and technologies

Ensure engineers optimally pair for user, functionality, technical and system knowledge sharing, and purposefully and actively develop engineering talent

Set the direction for engineering teams that are compelling, intuitive and engaging while fostering a high-energy, iterative and collaborative environment and culture 

Guide the creation of actionable insights and understanding through the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data

Engage, understand and participate in product practice as well as spend time with end customers to understand how our customers are using the products developed and learn

Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

Proven experience in building, deploying and managing complex, highly scalable and secure solutions

Proven data-driven engineering leadership and ability to influence and drive technology choices and decisions

Background in building frameworks and using open source frameworks and building development practices like CI/CD, Test Automation and cloud deployments

Experience setting a technical strategy or direction for building platforms

Experience working in teams of designers, engineers and product managers, creating solutions to solve organizational problems

Ability to build customer-obsessed solutions and experiences based on data and participation in discussions that helped drive next-generation solutions

Proven development of team members through coaching, performance feedback and development plans with the ability to manage both local and remote teams

Oversee vendor management, contract negotiations, and technology value realization.

Demonstrated ability to manage large-scale programs and complex vendor ecosystems.

Ability to prioritize across broad, competing demands, form a strong point of view, and drive alignment across stakeholders.

Preferred

Strong knowledge of Java, event-based architecture, caching solutions and strong working experience with SQL and no SQL databases and integration patterns

Proven experience on client-side web frameworks or app development experience on iOS and Android

Strong depth and breadth of knowledge related to platforms, Big Data, frontend and backend technologies

Ability to travel 30% of the time