Director Software Engineering - Supply Chain

About the role

Nike’s Supply Chain & Planning Technology (SCPT) team seeks a Director of Engineering to establish and lead its India Technology Center (ITC) in Bengaluru. This role builds the local engineering organization, delivering supply chain platforms while partnering with US and SE Asia teams. The position operates under a remote work model.

What you’ll do

• Lead Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, and senior technical leaders across multiple teams.
• Partner with product and business leaders to shape requirements, priorities, and tradeoffs.
• Setup and lead a technology delivery organization which rapidly innovates and delivers business value at speed and scale.
• Own delivery, reliability, and evolution of mission-critical platforms, including enterprise resource planning and global supply chain applications.
• Drive architectural alignment and engineering excellence across cloud, serverless, data, and application teams.
• Establish strong DevOps practices — continuous integration and continuous delivery, GitHub workflows, and disciplined production support.
• Lead artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives that improve supply chain planning, execution, and decision-making.
• Serve as incident lead for high-severity production incidents — coordinate technical leads, communicate with stakeholders, authorize remediation.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience leading Engineering Managers and large engineering organizations.
• Deep expertise in global supply chain applications and enterprise resource planning systems.
• Proven success delivering enterprise-scale, production software systems in complex business environments.

Nice to have

• Strong background in serverless architectures and cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services).
• Proficiency across modern and legacy technologies, including Java/React/Node.js, Visual Basic, .Net and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with data platforms and stores — Databricks, NoSQL (Azure Cosmos DB), Amazon S3, and relational databases.
• Experience building or leading artificial intelligence and machine learning-driven supply chain applications.

Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.