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Nike

Director, Software Engineering

Beaverton, OR · On-site

$263K/yr

The Director of Engineering will lead, support and develop team members, manage priorities and ... Ability to create technical architecture diagrams, API specifications, data models, engineering ...

campus4tech

Data Visualization Engineer 4

Beaverton, OR · On-site

$119K - $143K/yr

... on direct team: principal engineers; domain partners (leadership, VP level); other software ... Requirements Top skills include the following: - Data/visualization engineering skills - Ability to ...

Columbia

Principal Data Scientist

Portland, OR

This role will have opportunities to engage across the organization with an area of focus in Direct ... Collaborate with Data Engineers to validate source data and develop data pipelines that feed into ...

Nike

Software Engineer

Beaverton, OR · On-site

... data engineering from ingestion, transformation, and consumption in addition to designing and ... direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation; modify ...

LinkedIn

Associate Engineer, Data Center

Hillsboro, OR · On-site

$74K - $122K/yr

In addition to performing direct repair work, the role partners with vendors, mentors contract ... Qualifications Basic Qualifications: * 1+ years in a Data Center Engineering Role * 1+ years of ...

LinkedIn

Associate Engineer, Data Center

Hillsboro, OR · On-site

$74K - $122K/yr

In addition to performing direct repair work, the role partners with vendors, mentors contract ... Qualifications Basic Qualifications: * 1+ years in a Data Center Engineering Role * 1+ years of ...

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How much do director data engineering jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 6, 2026, the average yearly pay for director data engineering in Portland, OR is $206,490.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $150,100.00 and $268,300.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are some common challenges faced by a director of data engineering, and how are they typically addressed?

A Director of Data Engineering often encounters challenges such as integrating disparate data sources, maintaining data quality and security at scale, and aligning data strategy with evolving business goals. Successfully addressing these challenges requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, continuous upskilling in new technologies, and implementing best practices for data governance and automation. Directors must balance hands-on technical oversight with strategic planning, ensuring their teams are equipped to deliver reliable and high-performing data infrastructure. By fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability, Directors help their organizations stay ahead in a rapidly evolving data landscape.

What does a director of data engineering do?

A Director of Data Engineering leads the strategy, architecture, and execution of data infrastructure within an organization. They manage teams responsible for data pipelines, storage, and processing systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. This role involves collaborating with business leaders, data scientists, and analysts to align data capabilities with company goals. Additionally, they oversee technology selection, governance, security, and best practices for data management.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a director of data engineering?

To thrive as a Director Data Engineering, you need deep expertise in data architecture, data pipeline design, large-scale database systems, and leadership, typically supported by a relevant degree and significant experience managing engineering teams. Familiarity with tools like SQL, Python, Spark, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and certifications such as Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect are often expected. Outstanding communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to mentor and inspire teams are key soft skills in this position. These skills ensure the successful design and execution of robust data solutions that drive organizational decision-making and innovation.

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Director, Ecommerce Engineering

Hanna Andersson

Portland, OR • On-site, Remote

Full-time

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Job description

We are the champions of childhood
 
Hanna Andersson is a Portland, Oregon-based premier kids and baby clothing brand. Our clothes are made to play, made to last, and designed to let kids be kids. We have core commitments to design, quality, and sustainability, and we believe in helping families create meaningful everyday moments. These principles guide the Hanna Way, and lead to an experience authentically different from other children's brands.
 
We cultivate our unique brand by hiring team members who believe in these values, own a customer service mindset, and who are innovative, results-oriented, and comfortable working in a collaborative and growth-driven work environment. We all share in our brand's success, and we actively encourage our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their daily lives.

Position Summary 

The Director of Ecommerce Engineering is a technology leader responsible for delivering secure, scalable, reliable, and high-performing digital commerce solutions that enable exceptional customer experiences and support Hanna Andersson's long-term growth. 

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this role leads the ecommerce engineering organization through people leadership, technical stewardship, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnership. The Director is accountable for building high-performing engineering teams, delivering strategic initiatives, modernizing the commerce platform, and ensuring technology investments align with business objectives. 

The Director will lead the evolution of Hanna's commerce ecosystem - including Salesforce Commerce Cloud, headless commerce, payment platforms, customer data capabilities and CRM, AI-enabled engineering practices, OMS, product information mangement, POS, and future omnichannel initiatives - while driving continuous improvement in engineering quality, delivery, reliability, and operational efficiency. 

This is a full-time, exempt position. The role may be remote or hybrid based on business needs and requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams. The Director is expected to support critical production events, peak business periods, and high-priority initiatives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

What You'll Do:

Engineering Leadership & Organizational Health 

  • Build, lead, coach, and retain a high-performing engineering organization of 1-4 scrum teams, through hiring, mentoring, performance management, career development, and contracting.  
  • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, quality of craft, continuous learning, and operational excellence. 
  • Establish clear expectations, monitor organizational health, and ensure the team has the skills, capacity, and engagement necessary to meet business objectives. 
  • Work closely with other IT leaders across Infrastructure, Data, Technical, Operations and Infosec to ensure platforms, integrations, and services meet enterprise standards for security, reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

Delivery Execution & Engineering Operations 

  • Own delivery of the ecommerce engineering roadmap, ensuring predictable execution of strategic initiatives, releases, operational priorities, and production support. 
  • Manage priorities, dependencies, risks, resourcing, and release readiness while improving delivery quality, transparency, and predictability. 
  • Continuously improve engineering operating practices, including Agile delivery, SDLC, QA, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, incident response, and operational support. 
  • Establish and monitor KPIs to assess team and stack performance and use data-driven insights to inform decisions. 

Technical Leadership & Platform Stewardship 

  • Provide technical leadership across ecommerce applications, integrations, architecture, and platform modernization initiatives. 
  • Establish engineering standards that promote scalability, maintainability, extendability and performance. 
  • Work with cross functional teams to build in security, accessibility, and reliability, and long-term platform health. 
  • Champion the long-term health of Hanna's ecommerce technology ecosystem by establishing technical direction, architecture, and governance that enable efficient sustainable growth and operational excellence. 
  • Lead modernization of Hanna's commerce ecosystem, including Salesforce Commerce Cloud, composable commerce, APIs, integrations, cloud services, and supporting technologies. 

Platform Reliability & Customer Experience 

  • Ensure the availability, scalability, security, and performance of customer-facing ecommerce platforms. 
  • Proactively prepare systems for seasonal peaks, product launches, and other high-volume events while minimizing operational risk and customer impact. 
  • Partner across engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to continuously improve monitoring, resiliency, incident management, and operational maturity. 

Cross-Functional Leadership 

  • Partner with Program Management, Product, UX, Ecommerce, Marketing, Merchandising, Customer Experience, Operations, Distribution, Finance, and Information Systems to translate business strategy into technology execution. 
  • Build trusted relationships across the organization, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and ensure engineering serves as a strategic business partner. 
  • Drive alignment across stakeholders through effective planning, governance, communication, and transparent reporting. 

Technology Strategy, Innovation & AI 

  • Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve customer experience, engineering productivity, and business performance. 
  • Champion responsible adoption of AI across engineering, leveraging modern tools to improve software development, testing, documentation, operational efficiency, and developer effectiveness while maintaining appropriate governance and quality standards. 
  • Support the evolution of Hanna's digital capabilities, including personalization, search, fulfillment, customer data, and future omnichannel experiences. 

Vendor, Financial & Platform Stewardship 

  • Lead strategic relationships with technology vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers. 
  • Support platform selection, contract negotiations, renewals, budgeting, and technology investment decisions while optimizing cost, value, scalability, and long-term maintainability. 
  • Ensure third-party partners meet delivery expectations, technical standards, security requirements, and service commitments. 

Strategic Programs & Special Projects 

  • Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives beyond day-to-day engineering operations, including platform modernization, enterprise integrations, organizational transformation, and executive-sponsored technology programs. 
  • Partner across customer experience, brand marketing, payments, finance, operations, and fulfillment experience initiatives to deliver integrated business capabilities. 
You Should Have:

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities 

  • Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing software engineering organizations. 
  • Extensive experience delivering customer-facing ecommerce platforms and digital commerce solutions. 
  • Strong understanding of modern ecommerce architectures, including headless or composable commerce platforms, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, APIs, cloud technologies, integrations, and microservices. 
  • Experience integrating ecommerce platforms with payment, merchandising, product and pricing/promotion systems, CRM, OMS, fulfillment, and customer engagement technologies. 
  • Strong knowledge of Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, software quality, observability, security, and engineering best practices. 
  • Experience applying AI-enabled engineering tools and automation to improve software delivery, quality, and operational effectiveness. 
  • Proven ability to balance business priorities, customer experience, delivery speed, technical quality, operational risk, and cost. 
  • Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and decision-making skills. 
  • Experience managing technology vendors, budgets, consulting partners, contracts, and strategic technology investments. 

Education & Qualifications 

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent experience will be considered. 
  • 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including enterprise ecommerce platforms. 
  • 5+ years leading engineering teams, managers, or technical organizations. 
  • Experience within retail, direct-to-consumer, apparel, consumer products, or similar digital commerce environments preferred. 
  • Experience leading platform modernization, enterprise systems integration, or digital transformation initiatives strongly preferred. 
$190,000 - $220,000 a year
Hanna Talent Cultivation Standards:
With a rise in cyber-criminal activity, please note Hanna will never:
-Ask for any sensitive personal information via email, text, or other forms of instant messaging
-Interview you via email and/or send you a list of questions in lieu of an interview
-Extend an offer without speaking to you via phone or video call
-Ask for bank account or financial information during the recruiting process
 
Legitimate email communication will only be done to and from @hannaandersson.com email addresses. Please examine messages carefully to ensure this is the domain you are receiving messages from, as cybercriminals may also utilize domains that look similar but may have one letter off (such as @hannaandersson.com).
 
Legitimate candidate application submissions are received directly from the applicant. All unsolicited third-party submissions will be considered illegitimate and will not be reviewed or considered for hire.
 
Hanna Andersson provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
 
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Hanna Andersson prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation of any kind. Hanna Andersson encourages applicants of all ages.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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