Director, Software Engineering Core Cloud (ITC)

About the role

Nike is hiring a Director of Software Engineering to own the Management Plane of its multi-cloud platform, which enables scalable, self-service environments for cloud, data and AI across Global Technology. The role leads several engineering squads, partners with global counterparts and reports to the Senior Director Software Engineering leading Cloud, FinOps and Management Plane capabilities. It is a high-ownership leadership position requiring strong technical depth, people leadership and platform thinking.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and grow 3-4 engineering squads, managing managers, principals and senior engineers, and define technical direction and a high-performance engineering culture.
• Drive the multi-year platform roadmap and turn strategy into quarterly execution plans and OKRs.
• Own cloud governance systems including access management, RBAC and policy guardrails.
• Advance cloud economics through FinOps tooling and optimization initiatives.
• Enable AI-native engineering practices using automation and agent-based patterns.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability and security through SLOs and strong engineering standards.
• Partner with global teams to establish ITC as a strategic engineering hub.

Required profile

• 15+ years leading engineering teams, including 3+ years at Director level managing managers or senior ICs.
• Proven experience building and scaling teams, hiring and retaining senior talent.
• Ability to translate multi-year strategy into squad-level roadmaps with measurable OKRs and clear dependencies.
• Experience co-owning global platforms with distributed teams, without escalation dependency.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.

Required skills

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS engineering experience.
• Cloud governance, entitlements, IAM/RBAC and policy guardrails at enterprise scale.
• FinOps exposure, including cost attribution and optimization.
• Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Crossplane or CDK.
• Distributed systems, Kubernetes, APIs and event-driven architecture.
• Agile/DevOps environments with CI/CD and SLO-driven operations.
• Nice to have: AWS/Azure certifications, developer platform experience, FinOps tooling, AIOps exposure.