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Job type full-time
Full job description
*this position sits within our information technology department and may have potential for remote flexibility in the us with once-a-month travel*
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The vice president, omni engineering is responsible for applying their store/digital background in all aspects of the engineering function for customer-facing initiatives for the foot locker banners in north america, europe and asia pacific regionsDigital capabilities are needed with ecommerce, mobile app, customer care and store systemsThis position reports to the global cio.
This is an exciting opportunity for a retail/omni experienced leader to create technology driven transformation that drives strategic value for foot locker in customer-facing capabilitiesThis leader will expand our internal engineering team and establish an engineering culture of internal products using mach (microservices, apis, cloud and headless) approach that can be deployed to create delightful experiences for the customers.
Responsibilities
Must be obsessed with delivering results, insist on high standards, possess a knack for thinking big and “finding a way”, and an external awareness and curiosity to innovate and disrupt
Partner and establish collaborative relationship with the implementation team in north america, europe and asia pacific regions, the technology engineering team and other stakeholders.
Establish multi-year roadmaps, highlighting current gaps and anticipating and fulfilling future business and customer needs for the omni-channel capabilities such as ecommerce, mobile, customer care and store systems.
Must be able to lead a team with diverse skill sets including architects, front-end, and full stack engineers.
Drive the culture of building common systems across multiple geos and reusability
Drive the culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging
Interact with it vendors, external suppliers, and other contractual partners to ensure delivery of competitive service level agreements
Deliver presentations and facilitate meetings while adapting communication to varying audiences
Participate in the evaluation of new tools, platforms and technologies and articulate the business case for investments
Monitor and introduce trends, new and emerging technologies, processes, and best practices the digital area globally
Manage a portfolio of it investments, including delivering and enhancing core systems; driving productivity, efficiency and service
Qualifications
10 to 15 years of increasing experience, responsibility and success in retail information systems & technology environments
10+ years of experience in leading digital capabilities such as ecommerce, mobile app, customer care and store systems & managing multiple teams
Experience formulating vision and strategy to transform, simplify and modernize the implementation of customer-facing capabilities
Expertise in strategy, innovation, and delivery methodologies such as agile, water fall and scrum
Expert experience with cloud providers (aws, azure, gcp) and devops
Experience in developing capabilities consuming apis, and micro services
Experience in commercial ecommerce platforms such as sap hybris, salesforce commerce cloud and open source
Experience in headless commerce capability
Demonstrated leadership, coaching, & mentoring of team members
Experience developing a business case to justify it investments
Experience managing technology capital and expense budgets
Experience with evaluation, recommendation and procurement of it assets and solutions
Project management experience, including estimating and forecasting, budget and financial management as well as resource management
Prior vendor management responsibility and expertise
Exceptional relationship & team building skills
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable focus
Once a month travel required in support of global team and project management
Vice president, technology omni engineering flexible location category information systems & technology foot locker, incJob type regular full-time job id 35162
Job available in 5 locations
