Sr. Engineering Manager - MarTech & AdTech

Location: Portland, OR

ABOUT THE POSITION

Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear's Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.

The purpose of this position is to develop strategy and drive technology efforts for Columbia's Marketing and Membership capabilities along with other consumer-facing digital initiatives. This is a senior management role that serves as a delivery partner across the Commerce and Consumer Engagement landscape delivering value in partnership with our digital product management team.

This role's main responsibility is to lead an engineering team in the delivery of digital technology solutions. They collaborate on short and long-term digital product vision and strategy, architecture, and implementations that align with enterprise and industry standards. They seek a balance between technical excellence and timely delivery while continually seeking to improve engineering practices.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Provide technical solutions for products that are focused on processes, systems, applications, and technologies in areas spanning the Commerce and Engagement landscape.
• Guide high-functioning teams of engineers that deliver scalable cloud platforms, applications, and APIs.
• Participate in vendor product evaluations to enhance the Commerce technology landscape
• Communicate complex architecture patterns to technical and functional partners at all levels of the organization.
• Educate and mentor delivery teams in state-of-the-art technical patterns and techniques
• Invest in the growth of individual team members
• Participate in the development of best practices that enhance system security, scalability, observability, performance, usability, and resilience.
• Champion innovation and share insights with the technical and non-technical organization leaders.
• Design solutions to be adaptable, comprehensive, configurable and scalable to minimize technical debt and total cost of ownership.
• Provide strategic thinking, leadership and solution development across technologies & programs, including: Analytics, personalization, Consumer data, data management platforms, advertising technology, testing and optimization, and ecommerce.
• Define goals for technology components and frameworks including reference architectures and implementations for Martech and Adtech solutions, including, but not limited to data management platforms and Consumer Journey platforms;
• Other duties as assigned

YOU ARE

• A thought leader who is consultative and converts ideas and concepts into roadmaps and actionable plans.
• An influencer that drives common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams.
• Passionate about cloud platform and solutions with the goal to make the Consumer's experience seamless and exceptional.
• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff at all levels.
• A pragmatic technical leader able to lead teams that are supporting the current business applications while driving new solutions and capabilities.
• Passionate about delivering high-quality technical solutions on-time and on-budget.
• Curious and committed to innovation and technical excellence, seeking to understand the business environment and needs, and drive for technical excellence while balancing multiple needs.

YOU HAVE

• Leadership experience with cloud based solutions, services, and integrations.
• Experience leading technology teams that have scaled consumer mobile apps.
• Experience leading teams that have built and scaled marketing journey orchestration and personalization platforms.
• Experience to Marketing processes and solutions.
• 10+ years of experience engineering high-volume, highly available applications in AWS and/or Azure cloud environment.
• Highly skilled at creating compelling solution presentations covering vendor packaged applications, cloud-based applications or services and other applications. Comfortable in managing integration with complex systems environments.
• Experienced working in an Agile environment (Scrum preferred) including breaking down architecture vision into components that deliver value incrementally.
• Strong analytic skills, including ability to rapidly gather data, structure hypotheses, and develop synthesized findings/recommendations
• Experienced implementing headless architectures, progressive web apps as well as API Orchestration with an overarching focus on performance optimization.
• Deep knowledge of Commerce business processes and technology.

#LI-JD1

Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.