WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a team, we regularly interact with Finance and Technology partners, globally. To identify and ensure we are aligning appropriate technology outcomes with prioritized leadership initiatives, you'll partner with Technology Product, Program, Architecture and Engineering peers and leaders. You will regularly engage with the engineers/modelers on our collaborative squads to plan and deliver outcomes where financial service, data
integrity, reliability and performance, globally, at scale, are expected.

The Financial Planning & Performance Management Engineering Team is investing in a significant presence at ITC, with the majority of the engineering/modeling squads to locate in close proximity. Your leadership and occasional working hour flexibility, is key to our objective to harmonize a WHQ-led roadmap with a global delivery model that maximizes ownership, autonomy, empowerment, and, for the majority, establishment of reasonable
working hours for the ITC-based squad. Along the way, you will also collaborate with other organizational leaders to ensure team health is high, and that we are building trust and diversity in the NIKE Global Technology Organization.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager to be a foundational part of our Financial Planning & Performance Management Engineering Team. The role is critical to delivering the next generation of Financial Planning solutions while elevating engineering practices and team capabilities. This leadership role will also help improve the technical aptitude of the team through coaching, pairing, innovation time, architecture, and design discussions. The candidate needs to have meaningful experience with Anaplan, or similar multi-dimensional Enterprise Performance Management tools, along with cloud-based data infrastructure and integrations. A learning mindset, excellent analytical skills, and strong written and verbal communication are essential. A healthy Team culture is important to us. We are excited about people who value diversity and encourage all voices to be heard.

• Strong sense of ownership.

• Bias for action.

• Innovative mindset.

• Hire & develop best people.

• Technology evangelist.

• Courageous.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Finance, Accounting or other relevant area.

• 3+ years’ people management experience.

• 5+ years of experience with Anaplan and/or other multi-dimensional Enterprise Performance Management tools like IBM Planning Analytics/TM1, Oracle EPB, etc.

• 2+ years' experience with cloud-based data infrastructure and integrations leveraging tools like S3, Airflow, Lambda, EC2, Snowflake, Kafka, etc., preferred.

• Strong Excel proficiency.

• Solid understanding of Financial Planning concepts, especially the Income Statement.

• 3+ years working within an Agile delivery operating model with demonstrated knowledge of Waterfall and hybrid implementation methodologies.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise objective, mature judgement.

• Ability to absorb sophisticated technical information and communicate effectively to both technical and business audiences.

• Ability to present ideas effectively and facilitate discussion with multiple inputs.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication.

• Results-oriented, motivated, self-starter.

• Strong desire to excel and be committed to gaining exposure to multiple technologies and business functions while further developing your career.

• Desire to work with a truly dynamic and exciting team, with a "roll-up your sleeves" approach.

• Collegial, open, and grounded in integrity. 

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

As a Software Engineering Manager, your primary role on the team will be to lead our NIKE India Technology Center (ITC) based Financial Planning squad members by example. You will help coach the team to design, deliver, maintain, support and optimize our technology. You will help ensure we are delivering performant, scalable, extensible and sustainable solutions by being hands-on, providing technical direction and ensuring detailed solution documentation. You will align engineering resources to support product outcomes.