Our purpose is to inspire and empower families to lead fulfilled lives. To succeed, Kohl’s is seeking an Engineering Director to develop and maintain the customer experience across the Kohl’s ecosystem. This individual oversees engineering team members and managers working on balanced teams (A team of engineers, product managers and designers leveraging XP, UCD and Lean Startup techniques). The individual will be an active participant in the Kohl’s Technology Engineering Practice and work to advance great architecture and engineering across the organization. The Engineering Director drives the development of leading edge engineering practices across assigned product lines.

　　Responsibilities

　　Actively foster a high-energy iterative and collaborative environment and culture to deliver experiences that empower our customers to lead fulfilled lives

　　Actively participate in Engineering practice at the organization level and collaborate with partners to help drive technology decisions and choices to help improve efficiencies and reduce costs

　　Work regularly in a balanced team towards an outcome based delivery

　　Provide thought leadership and work closely with the enterprise architecture team to create a bi-directional communication path to bring new ideas and technologies to the company as well as foster and drive consistent use of technologies and standards

　　Ensure that developed software works, ensure adherence to standards and lead creation of engineering capabilities in a way that reduces friction and increases output

　　Ensure that technologies are optimally used and appropriate patterns are used for solving the problem

　　Collaborate with engineering practice on technology roadmaps, understand industry best practices and ensure team is contributing to standard platform and technologies

　　Be a working manager within balanced teams, working towards shared outcomes

　　Ensure engineers optimally pair for user, functionality, technical, and system knowledge sharing, and purposefully and actively develop engineering talent

　　Set the direction for engineering teams that are compelling, intuitive and engaging

　　Guide the creation of actionable insights and understanding through the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data

　　Engage, understand and participate in product practice as well as spend time with end customers to understand how our customers are using the products developed and learn

　　QualificationsRequired

　　Proven experience in building, deploying and managing complex and highly scalable solutions that are secure and industry leading

　　Proven data driven engineering leadership to influence and drive technology choices and decisions

　　Proven experience building frameworks and using open source frameworks

　　Proven experience building development practices like CI/CD, Test Automation and cloud deployments

　　Proven experience setting a technical strategy or direction for building platforms

　　Experience working in teams of designers, engineers and product managers, creating solutions to solve organizational problems

　　Ability to manage engineers and engineering managers to meet customer needs

　　Experience building Customer-obsessed solutions and experiences, based on data and participation in discussions that helped drive next generation solutions

　　Proven development of team members through coaching, performance feedback, and development plans with the ability to manage both local and remote teams

　　Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills to communicate to both executives and team members in clearly articulating goals and vision

　　Preferred

　　Ability to travel 30% of the time

　　Strong knowledge of java, frameworks like spring, event based architecture, caching solutions and strong working experience with SQL and no SQL databases and integration patterns

　　Proven experience on client side web frameworks like angular, react etc or app development experience on iOS and Android

　　Strong depth and breadth of knowledge related to platforms, Big Data, frontend and backend technologies