Job Description
This role is based at our Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. Youll work onsite one day per week, with the flexibility to work remotely the remainder of the week.
About the Role
As Director, Engineering Leader, you will develop and maintain the customer experience across the Kohls ecosystem. You will oversee engineering teams, be an active participant in Kohls Technology Engineering Practice and work to advance great architecture and engineering across the organization.
What Youll 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 ef?ciencies 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 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 in?uence 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
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