Our brands bridge the gaps we see in the world. Old Navy democratizes style to ensure everyone has access to quality fashion at every price point. Athleta unleashes the potential of every woman, regardless of body size, age or ethnicity. Banana Republic believes in sustainable luxury for all. And Gap inspires the world to bring individuality to modern, responsibly made essentials.
This simple idea—that we all deserve to belong, and on our own terms—is core to who we are as a company and how we make decisions. Our teamis made up of thousands of people across the globe who take risks, think big, and do good for our customers, communities, and the planet. Ready to learn fast, create with audacity and lead boldly? Join our team.
About the Role
In this role, you will lead large global engineering organizations, leading leaders and empowering them to run independent high-performing teams to design highly scalable and high performing technology solutions in an Agile work environment. You will provide leadership, mentorship and oversight to a high-performance team of engineering managers and engineers across product delivery, technology decisions, and best practices in resolving critical production issues to help simplify and improve business processes through the latest in technology and automation. You are a technical expert and leads through the requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, and support phases of a product.
What You'll Do
Establishes, leads and influences the vision of the product by contributing to software design and architecture that results in high performing technology.
Develop and enhance software providing strategy and direction to solve complex business problems by keeping customer experience at the forefront.
Lead and model a DevOps mindset by applying automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery in everything we do.
Foster innovation by applying best practices and learning from emerging technologies and through working collaboratively within a matrix.
Provide engineering leadership and collaborates and influences within a matrix environment influencing at senior levels.
Thought leader contributing to the development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people in projects and assignments of diverse scope.
Lead and facilitate teams creating highly collaborative environment.
Who You Are
In depth understanding and application of leading teams including establishing organizational goals aligned with product vision to achieve business success.
Demonstrated deep understanding of modern software development, emerging trends and industry and competitor intelligence.
Superior communication skills with proven ability to guide senior levels and cross functional teams both internal and external.
Facilitate delivery partnership through right level of planning, coordination, alignment, and leadership visibility occurs to ensure on time, on budget delivery of initiatives.
Strategic thought leader and problem solver that is able lead through others developing creative solutions.
Open System development skills such as Java, JEE, JSP, Spring, Spring Boot, Rest Services, Spring JPA, REST, JSON, Junit, Spock, Apigee
Strong knowledge of relational databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and NoSQL DBs such as MongoDB and CosmosDB
Experience in Real time streaming platforms: Confluent Kafka, IBM MQ, Azure Event Hubs, RabbitMQ
Have good experience on Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, PCF, OCI, GCP
Experience in performance testing and monitoring using tools JMeter, Gatling, Splunk or New Relic.
Experience in Jenkins Pipeline/ Github Actions setup using Groovy and Gradle.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues in business terms.
Knowledge of Retail (Order Management System) industry is a plus.
Software Development experience and knowledge of the Software Delivery Lifecycle,
Security Compliance and Agile and SCRUM methodology, industry and competitor practices.
Experience in Docker, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, SonarQube, Git
Benefits at Gap Inc.
Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*
Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.*
Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.
US CandidatesPlease note that effective, June 30, 2022, Gap Inc. will no longer require any of its employees to wear face masks or require proof of COVID vaccination, unless required by local or state/provincial mandates or as part of Gap Inc's quarantine guidelines after being exposed to or testing positive for COVID. Therefore, please disregard any language in any job posting that refers to Gap Inc.'s face mask and proof of vaccination policy as said policy is no longer effective.
