Engineering Manager – Product Development & Vertical Brands (REMOTE)

DICK’S Sporting Goods is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, and they are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Product Development & Vertical Brands team. This role involves leading a team of software engineers to develop and maintain innovative software solutions that support the growth of the private brand product line, ensuring alignment with business objectives and fostering a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop data-driven analyses to surface new opportunities to differentiate and improve products and user experiences, ensuring consistency across digital products, services, and channels
• Manage and deliver end-to-end digital programs and initiatives, leveraging agile and design-thinking principles to drive sustainable implementation
• Develop digital training and development programs to meet identified needs; run leadership development programs to enable personal transformations on digital
• Conceptualize elements of digital strategy/digital-enabled business change projects. Develop approaches to programmatically deliver successful digital innovation engagements
• Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues
• Develop new methods, tools and programs for quality assurance. Lead developmental initiatives or programs within an area of expertise
• Contribute to the development of budget plans and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior teammates
• Lead in detecting and analyzing cybersecurity incidents including attacks, breaches, and identified vulnerabilities and remediate any security gaps in line with the security incident management procedure
• Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals
• Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential
• Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project / account team members and hold them accountable for achieving these; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/ personal objectives
• Manage a program of work while reporting to senior teammates leveraging assigned product management team processes and protocols

Requirements:

• Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job-related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)
• Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)
• Prior experience with PTC FlexPLM
• Experience in retail and product development technology
• Wide and deep experience providing direction and guidance in data engineering
• Experience with data engineering tools such as Google Big Query, Snowflake and Databricks
• Experience with modeling complex data
• Experience leading data engineering teams as a manager
• Experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives
• Experience leading teams of contractors in an onshore/offshore engagement
• Experience managing, mentoring, and growing the careers of data engineers