Supply Chain & Planning Technology (SCPT) team under GlobaL Technology (GT) at Nike  is implementing Integrated Business Planning across demand and supply management. Our vision is to optimize demand and supply to serve customers and drive profitable growth through Merchandize Financial Planning and Assortment planning for Nike Consumer Channels and its Partners. 

Primary focus is to build technology platforms harnessing the data, art and science to drive better business decisions and outcomes. We will do this by creating an environment where everyone thrives with a growth mindset culture with smart risk taking, measurement and continuous learning. Our products will be driven by Customer focus, User centric design and mindset.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

In this role we are looking for a high potential Lead Engineer with strong Planning domain expertise to lead and mentor a team of engineers with a focus to develop solutions for the various products of Demand & Supply Planning capability. As a Lead Engineer you are thoughtful, aspirational and adept at solutioning, architecture and hands on delivery.

• Advocate and implement business transformation solutions and best practices.
• Advocate DevOps practices & mindset and strong culture of innovation

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Demand  & Supply planning application deisgn and implementation with emphasis on distributed systems concepts.
• Implement business solutions leveraging custom data platform and O9  platform.
• Design, develop, configure ,review code, and deploy cloud-based products.
• Drive engineering activities from designing through deployment while adhering to established Architectural guidelines and principles.
• Collaborate with other stake holders across the Enterprise, Planning technical platforms, technology stack and solutions to meet demand of our ever-changing consumer needs.
• Provide insights for developing and communicating Technology Strategy and roadmap; ensure alignment to planing technology strategies.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog on an ongoing basis and lead work through Agile practices.
• Commitment to and hands-on experience in leading/performing technical quality reviews and test-driven development.
• Build strong domain acumen to deliver to product strategy, value drops and business outcomes

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand requirements to define scope and estimate level of effort. 
• Ensure that Engineers on the team have the full context and understanding of customers and business requirements to create valuable solutions.
• Help build an effective team and partnership with stakeholders.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire Engineering team, managing work and delivering high performing solutions.
• Establish trust and build strong and effective partnership with technical leaders and architects in various functions across regions/global locations
• Partner effectively with vendor partners contingent workforce to ensure delivery and positive results
• This role will report to the leader of Engineering accountable to deliver demand and supply capability solutions to Nike Planning users.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Information Systems or other relevant subject area related to information technology
• 8+ years hands on experience in technical architecture, design, development & of demand or inventory planning products/applications
• Hands on development and configuration in supporting product needs.Experience in Integrated Business Planning solutions like O9 is Mandatory
• Strong techno-functional experience in planning business domain, data domains, planning algorithms and solvers.
• Strong experience in PL/SQL and working on data products and data analysis of Planinng is required.A minimum of 3 years of experience working cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Excellent understanding of business processes in Enterprise Planning–preferably in end to end demand and supply Planning and Deployment.
• Expert knowledge and experience with a diversity of tools and platforms
• Proven ability to rapidly learn new functional domains, developing and implementing proof of concepts
• Experience developing applications that has data and app complexity
• Experience with Scrum and other Agile processes. 
• Knowledge of Jira, Git/SVN, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working in a multi-tasking, fast-paced, results-oriented environment and maturity in understanding and managing team dyanmics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical IT teams across global locations
• Passion for building trust, coaching, teaching, mentoring and learning.