engineering manager, Marketing Technology

Starbucks hiring for engineering manager, Marketing Technology jobs in Seattle, WA, US

Engineering Manager, Marketing Technology

At Starbucks, our mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Starbucks Technologists work to achieve this mission through the use of cutting-edge technology delivered to our partners, customers, stores, roasters, and global communities.

This engineering manager position contributes to Starbucks success by leading the engineering team within Marketing Technology.Responsible for delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable technology solutions that support the modern marketing initiative. 

The successful candidate is someone who enjoys bringing definition to complex technology initiatives, is skilled at navigating ambiguous new frontiers and is an expert at bringing technology and business value to the fore.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure the immediate team of direct reports promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results
• Develop and implement engineering solutions to improve efficiencies, increase capacity and reduce costs.
• Integrates engineering principles and resolves technical obstacles for specific engineering projects.
• Applies logic in problem-solving and analysis of alternatives to assess the financial and operations impact of business initiatives.Leverages critical information to make effective recommendations and decisions
• Provides coaching and mentoring to engineering partners
• Ability to establish cross-functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners
• Communicates highly complex ideas and concepts to non-technical peers and customers
• Support the development team and perform activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion
• Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with Company standards and practices
• Implements practices that support secure application development using best practices and standards

Basic Qualifications

• 8-10 years of professional industry experience with software development
• 5+ years of experience in managing medium to large scale projects and cross functional team leadership.
• 3-5 years leading technical teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience coding in modern OOP or Functional programming languages.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering large-scale, high-capacity distributed systems
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, such as SOX, PCI, Data Protection, etc.
• Knowledge of System-on-chip / hardware in remote environments
• Experience in the design, implementation, and delivery of sophisticated build/test/release infrastructure
• Experience designing/utilizing event driven or streaming software architectures
• Deep knowledge of operational maturity practices at scale
• Skilled in driving complex engineering roadmaps and continuous improvement