Role Specific Information

Job Description

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

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description at any time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner