Nike Looking for Principal Solution Architect, Data Solutions Architecture – GAP at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Principal Solution Architect, Data Solutions Architecture. This role is part of Global Architecture & PaaS, Global Architecture team will partner and engage with business and technology leaders across all the business functions within the enterprise in planning, creating, maintaining, and executing a capability roadmap aligned to the overall company and solution strategies to ensure that the people, process, data insights/information, and technology needs are accurately captured and planned for short, medium and long-term execution. The candidate needs to have a strong understanding of technical concepts, excellent attention to detail, data accuracy, and data analysis, strong verbal and written communication skills, and be self-motivated and operates with a high sense of urgency and a high level of integrity.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll be working with the Global Architecture team and perform the following tasks:

• Lead clear definition of data across Nike and help clarify ownership and stewardship
• Partner with Application, Data and Analytics Engineering leadership to develop solutions in Bigdata space
• Analyze and influence end-to-end data and integration design for key business domains
• Architect and design solutions for data quality, reliability and data governance
• Embrace and influence technology platform thinking and drive architecture principles of security, scale, uptime and reliability
• Contribute to and implement the architecture strategy for enterprise data management
• Partner with business and enterprise data leaders to provide technical advice on data governance, data quality and stewardship
• Guide and mentor engineering teams to raise collective technical expertise
• Demonstrate a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical timelines, cost and risks
• Contribute to architecture guiding principles, development standards, training and hiring

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH

This role is part of the Global Architecture team within Global Architecture & PaaS.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Business Information Management
• 10+ Years’ Experience in Technology innovation with new and disruptive technologies
• Experience working in a Distributed/Cloud-based environment (AWS or Azure or GCP)
• Experience in one or more languages required: Java, Scala, NodeJS, Python, Go
• Familiar with Data Architecture Patterns like (Lambda, Kappa …)
• Advanced experience building cloud scalable, real-time, and high-performance data lake solutions leveraging AWS, EMR, Spark, DATABRICKS, S3, Lamda & Streaming technologies (KAFKA, AWS KINESIS or AZURE EVENTHUB)
• Experience in NoSQL data stores, such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, or similar technologies
• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests. Continuous delivery experience preferred
• Demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence management skills – ability to work cooperatively at all levels in matrix environment
• Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills with ability to facilitate technology strategy, requirements, and architecture conversations with all stakeholders (management, business users, and technology resources)
• Demonstrated track record of handling complex projects in larger organizations

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.