Director of Software Engineering

About the Role

In this critical leadership role, you will be accountable for all new capabilities for our highly scaled physical and logical inventory back-end services powering Gap Inc.’s platforms (Web, allocation, order brokering, and reporting). You will be leading a high-performance engineering team practicing best-in-class DevOps and continuous delivery engineering practices.

In addition, you will be responsible for working with your Product Management, Architecture and Technical Program Management peers to build end-to-end product delivery and technology plans for this area, across of all Gap Inc.’s brands and markets.

A key part of your responsibilities will include instituting the right processes and practices to ensure high availability of all your applications and services at scale, while leading your team’s Cloud-based technical roadmap. In your role, you will also lead oversight for the total cost of ownership for building, testing, and running your products in Production – ensuring on time and on budget delivery.

What You'll Do

• Accountable for ensuring overall strategy, delivering excellence and high availability for the cloud-based physical and logical inventory accuracy at Gap Inc.
• Lead product and technical roadmap planning for the group, actively collaborating with key architecture, product, operations, and program management partners.
• Successfully ensure delivery execution of large complex product initiatives consisting of multiple cross- functional/ organizational Agile teams.
• Maintain overall financial oversite as part of total cost of ownership for building all your product capabilities, product support, and cloud consumption costs.
• Participate in continuous delivery improvement efforts, with modern agile, lean and design thinking practices.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight to a high-performance team of engineer managers and engineers across product delivery, technology decisions, engineering best practices and transformation.
• Evaluate business needs, research, and formulate application solutions, and make solution recommendation to Gap Tech leadership.

Who You Are

• Engineering leadership experience with managing services at high scale, preferably in a retail setting.
• Deep end-to- end technical knowledge building and running high performing, high availability applications.
• Domain expertise with inventory services, including transaction processing and complex aggregation is highly desired.
• Ability to credibly challenge technical design decisions and approaches with exceptionally talented product managers, architects, and engineers.
• Proficient and direct experience with Java, J2EE, Spring, Messaging services, API design, Cassandra Database systems and high-volume, multi-threaded microservices.
• Experience leading leaders and independent, high performing teams with demonstrated understanding of modern software development and infrastructure tools, processes, and practices including Agile Development, Cloud an DevOps.
• Experience collaborating with product and program management to build detailed product and technical roadmaps that consistently meet budget/ time expectations.
• Strong executive presence and experience advising and interfacing with senior executives and business leadership on technology related issues, excellent executive- level verbal and written communication.
• Bachelor’s degree from a accredited college, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.