USA Nike Jobs - Information Technology

Expert IT Business Consultant - Digitial Commerce Solutions - ,

IT at Nike is over 900 professionals working on the most advanced business applications and e-commerce capabilities in the industry. For instance, Nike Global Digital Commerce is embarking on a Global program to update and expand its Global Digital Commerce footprint, further distancing itself as leader in consumer athlete enabling Digital experiences.

As an Expert IT Business Consultant in Digital Commerce Solutions you'll work as part of the Direct to Consumer team in developing and supporting Nike's expansion of its Global Digital Commerce business. This ground floor opportunity will provide you with an opportunity to apply your seasoned Digital Commerce expertise through consulting engagements with all levels of our Business and IT leadership to expand Nike's Commerce presence globally. You will operate across a wide range of business processes and emerging commerce capabilities such as: Retail Supply Chain, Customization, Social & Distributed Commerce, and Mobile & other emerging channels. You will facilitate and influence business process change across geographies and products. Drawing upon your background as a business and technology specialist you will support programs in driving a consumer-focused approach to understanding complex cross-process business objectives and translating them into technical capability needs. You will work with Architects across the Direct to Consumer ecosystem in developing high-level technical solution options to technical capability needs. In addition you will be encouraged to express technical leadership, provide strategic and tactical direction, assist in the decision-making, and openly share information across the team.

IT Business Consultant Lead - Digital Commerce Solutions - ,

As an Expert IT Business Consultant in Digital Commerce Solutions you'll work as part of the Direct to Consumer team in developing and supporting Nike's expansion of its Global Digital Commerce business. This role will provide you with an opportunity to apply your seasoned Digital Commerce expertise through consulting engagements with all levels of our Business and IT leadership to expand Nike's Commerce presence globally. You will support a subset of business processes and emerging commerce capabilities such as: Retail Supply Chain, Customization, Social & Distributed Commerce, and Mobile & other emerging channels. You will facilitate, influence, and document to-be and as-is detailed business processes. Drawing upon your background as a business and technology specialist you will support programs in driving a consumer-focused approach to understanding business objectives and translating them into technical capability needs. You will work with Architects in Digital Commerce Solutions in developing technical solution options to business capability needs. In addition you will be encouraged to express technical leadership, provide strategic and tactical direction, and openly share information across the team.

Expert IT Architect - Digital Commerce - ,

As our Expert IT Architect, you'll be part of the Enterprise Architecture/IT Cross Functional team and act as an expert on specific or emerging technologies in an SAP/ERP infrastructure environment. You'll be an expert in IT architecture and all associated systems including integration methodology, business processes, process re-engineering and process improvement. You'll also be responsible for consultation with the business and knowledge transfer. You'll work on the most complex projects and contribute to the overall strategic vision of the organization. You'll integrate a broad range of ideas regarding IT architecture and develop strategies for migration toward the architectural vision. This opportunity also involves evaluating, designing and establishing technical protocols and standards for enterprise-wide use and evaluating vendor solutions. You'll provide integrated systems planning and recommend innovative technologies that will enhance the current systems.

You'll be supporting our Digital Commerce team and architect the e-Commerce and Brand digital platforms. You'll also work with a team of other architects and technical leaders to deliver robust, global e-Commerce websites. You'll help Nike create a strategic advantage by understanding business strategies, objectives, and processes and connecting these to sources of technology innovation. You'll play a critical role in the development of the technology vision and architecture and evangelize it within the organization using your expertise and influence. You'll be able to work and communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization - from brainstorming with individual engineers to discussing strategy with senior executives. You'll be expected to provide and exemplify exceptional technical leadership for the Nike technical community as a whole.

In this critical role, you'll also have the following responsibilities:

Lead, Develop, and evangelize the technology vision and architectural roadmap considering business strategy and trends
Determine, with key business and technology stakeholders, where technology can be used to create competitive advantage, by rapidly identifying and driving adoption of technology-driven business innovation. In some cases, this includes responsibility for prototyping technologies to demonstrate viability and business value
Define and drive adoption of architecture and software development practices across the various Digital teams
Provide technical leadership in the evaluation, conceptualization, design, and development of major new capabilities, ensuring that technology choices and tradeoffs anticipate future needs while efficiently satisfying short term market requirements
Lead development of tools and frameworks to improve reusability, maintainability, and the technology foundation of our platform
Be a driving force for constantly improving performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, availability and usability
Define and cultivate strategic technology partnerships including determining how to effectively leverage 3rd party solutions today and in the future
Partner with Nike enterprise architects in the creation of Nike's architecture strategy and roadmaps

Senior Manager of Digital Commerce Architecture - Digital Commerce Solutions - ,

As our Senior Manager of Digital Commerce Architecture, you'll oversee the architecture of our e-Commerce and Brand digital platforms and you'll lead a team of architects and technical leaders that deliver robust, global e-Commerce websites. You'll help Nike create a strategic advantage by understanding business strategies, objectives, and processes and connecting these to sources of technology innovation. You'll lead the development of the technology vision and architecture and evangelize it within the organization using your expertise and influence. You'll be able to work and communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization - from brainstorming with individual engineers to discussing strategy with senior executives. You and your team will provide technical leadership and drive solution development and delivery with colleagues across multiple Digital Commerce teams. In addition, you'll be expected to provide and exemplify exceptional technical leadership for the Nike technical community as a whole.

You'll be a trusted member of our leadership team with the following responsibilities:

Lead, develop, and evangelize the technology vision and architectural roadmap considering business strategy and trends
Determine, with key business and technology stakeholders, where technology can be used to create competitive advantage, by rapidly identifying and driving adoption of technology-driven business innovation. In some cases, this includes responsibility for prototyping technologies to demonstrate viability and business value
Define and drive adoption of architecture and software development practices across the various Digital teams
Provide technical leadership in the evaluation, conceptualization, design, and development of major new capabilities, ensuring that technology choices and tradeoffs anticipate future needs while efficiently satisfying short term market requirements
Lead development of tools and frameworks to improve reusability, maintainability, and the technology foundation of our platform
Be a driving force for constantly improving performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, availability and usability
Define and cultivate strategic technology partnerships including determining how to effectively leverage 3rd party solutions today and in the future
Partner with Nike enterprise architects in the creation of Nike's architecture strategy and roadmaps

Sr. IT Business Systems Analyst - Digital Commerce Solutions - ,

As our Senior Business Systems Analyst in Digital Commerce, you'll work as a part of the Direct to Consumer organization supporting, developing, and deploying world-class Digital Commerce solutions for Nike. You'll support functions that are imperative to Nike's global Digital Commerce growth such as Customization, Retail Supply Chain, Social & Distributed Commerce, Mobile & other emerging channels, CRM, Merchandising, and Consumer Services & Operations. You'll participate in and lead efforts to elicit and elaborate requirements and help define technical solutions at the speed of business. You'll collaborate with Business Stakeholders, Product Managers, IT Architects, Engineers, and other subject matter experts. You'll help drive definition of product and project scope and be accountable for analysis and traceability of all requirements (functional, information, usability, and integration) from inception through execution and delivery of technology solutions. You'll be responsible for translating requirements into detailed functional specifications and participating in high level technical design and ensuring solutions meet requirements. You'll also work on complex projects; take responsibility for more diverse accountabilities, utilize your specialized knowledge and strong competency with tools, systems and procedures; and conduct problem solving and decision making at both the strategic and tactical levels. Your work will ensure the delivery of leading edge, best in class solutions, which will enable our business and consumers to leverage the latest technologies as we drive the business into the future. In addition, you'll gain exposure to global scenarios which require technical savvy, communication skills and the ability to effectively multi-task.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Digital Commerce Solutions - ,

Nike is committed to providing a high performance on-line experience to our consumers. As our Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Digital Commerce Solutions, you'll work directly with our functional business and IT teams to define, document and deliver the technologies that provide a high quality user experience. You'll leverage your deep functional expertise in the realm of web applications, understanding the need and applicability of rich media, social networking tools (communities, forums, live chat), Digital Commerce applications, personalization, user registration and entitlements (security, authentication, authorization), search (meta-data, taxonomies, folksonomies, search engines, federated search) and the measurement of website performance (metrics and analytics). On a daily basis you'll work with cross-functional business teams, business system analysts, user interface designers, application engineers and architects to define and document functional and software testing specifications for Nike's direct to consumer websites. You'll work closely with Project and Development team management to scope the work for different projects and estimate the effort required for and software testing. You'll also serve as an expert resource to our development teams to help them answer and/or clarify testing specifications testing design issues during the application development phase. In addition, you'll play a critical role in all phase of quality assurance testing (unit, integration, performance, load, end-to-end and user acceptance testing).

Lead Java Application Engineer- Digital Commerce - ,

As our Lead Java Application Engineer in Digital Commerce, you'll work on developing and implementing projects for our eCommerce site. You'll be the technical leader collaborating with our Project Manager, Business Analysts and Business partners to deliver the technical artifacts for the successful deployment of this and future global systems. You'll be a key contributor in all aspects of the development and support, including the mentoring of engineers involved in all phases of the software development lifecycle. You'll also provide team leadership, including technology, technical skill development, internal/external liaison and problem solving and contribute towards performance management. You'll manage the day-to-day task assignment of the Technical team and ensure that standards are being followed and the technical implementations comply with the overall architectural direction. You'll represent Digital Commerce and Nike on key vendor relationships from a project and technical point of view; work with Digital Commerce leadership, Enterprise Architecture, LBS partner teams and external vendors to achieve Digital Commerce objectives. You'll also be responsible for designing and developing standards. In addition, you'll work in a team environment where you'll be encouraged to express technical leadership and direction while communicating effectively across teams.

Senior IT Business Systems Analyst - Global Store Solutions - ,

IT at Nike is over 900 professionals working on the most advanced business applications and e-commerce capabilities in the industry. For instance, Nike Retail IT is in the process of implementing a completely new Global systems footprint, encompassing NSB, SAP Retail and SAS.

As a Senior Business Systems Analyst within Nike's Direct to Consumer Global Store Solutions team, you'll play a key role in the implementation and maintenance of systems that enable our business partners to achieve their objectives. The Global Store Solutions group is currently responsible for systems in multiple countries with a combined retail store count of over 300 across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. You'll work with both local and globally distributed resources to identify and document regional, statutory, and country specific requirements within each geography. You'll be instrumental in creating global business processes and driving requirements definition, solution options analysis, and subsequent stakeholder discussions. You'll collaborate with Application Engineers and our business partners to develop high-level designs, including logical models and functional specifications for a variety of retail systems. You'll participate in the implementation of both in-store and supporting corporate systems on a global scale. In addition, you'll facilitate and drive meetings with global participation and work with team members to ensure that the developed software meets our business partner's requirements and expectations. You'll also have the opportunity to lead small and mid-sized projects, working closely with vendors and our external partners.

Senior Business Systems Analyst - Global IT Finance - ,

As our Senior Business Systems Analyst, you'll work as part of our Global IT Finance organization developing world-class information management reporting solutions for Nike as we expand our technical reporting capability to meet the increased needs of our business throughout the world. You'll be responsible for developing and deploying complex financial reporting solutions across multiple platforms, documenting requirements, and providing production support. You'll collaborate with Application Engineers and our business partners to develop high-level designs, including logical models and functional specifications that leverage a variety of reporting tools and platforms. You'll facilitate and drive meetings with global participation and work with team members to ensure that the developed software meets our business partner's requirements. This work will include the design and development of new solutions as well as modification of existing data models to support Finance operational and management reporting. You'll work with the business and IT teams to transition these applications into our production environment by providing support and training through the release cycle. In addition, you'll gain exposure to global scenarios, which require technical savvy in the Finance application modules, communication skills and the ability to effectively multi-task.

Expert IT Architect - Sales Planning Solutions - ,

As our Expert IT Architect, you'll be part of the Go to Market (GTM) team and act as an expert on specific or emerging technologies in sales planning and customer intelligence space. You'll be an expert in IT architecture and all associated systems including integration methodology, business processes, process re-engineering and process improvement. You'll also be responsible for consultation with the business and knowledge transfer. You'll work on the most complex projects and contribute to the overall strategic vision of the organization. You'll integrate a broad range of ideas regarding IT architecture and develop strategies for migration toward the architectural vision. This opportunity also involves evaluating, designing and establishing technical protocols and standards for enterprise-wide use and evaluating vendor solutions. In addition, you'll provide integrated systems planning and recommend innovative technologies that will enhance the current systems.

As GTM solutions expert architect, you'll be involved in bringing the sales planning platform and customer interaction together, and designing a customer intelligence system. You'll be involved in architecting solutions for moving sales plans into orders in a long term and sustainable fashion. You'll set governance and lead the tech teams through the architecture discussions. You'll always advocate for solutions and standards that work across the geographies and affiliates of Nike Inc.; if you need to deviate, the reasons would be clearly articulated from architectural patterns stand point. You'll be involved in integrating GTM sales planning and customer intelligence systems to SAP and other enterprise level applications. Your role's focus is broader than just one or two technologies (java and .net) and would involve all technologies that are part of Go to Market business processes and its sub-processes.

You'll provide thought leadership, create strategies and make recommendations on a wide variety of complex issues having a significant and strategic impact on processes and the business. You'll create roadmaps that connect business strategies to IT capabilities, and provide a milestone view of the cadence needed to move from current state to future state. You'll help define and develop best practices and processes used by engineers as well as help define, develop and communicate standards, best practices and system build techniques and processes. The architecture that you'll deliver will be pragmatic with applicability to meet immediate business needs.

In addition, you'll need to demonstrate a strong ability to learn new information and systems quickly, work successfully in a highly matrixed organization and forge partnerships with peers, customers, and suppliers.

Senior IT Manager - Order Fulfillment Solutions - ,

As our Senior IT Manager of the Order Fulfillment Solutions team you'll lead and manage a team of IT professionals responsible for developing and supporting solutions for the Nike Customer Service, Logistics and Order Management community worldwide. You'll provide leadership and drive the strategy in the ongoing design and support of system configuration and business processes related to SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) sub-modules. You'll work closely with other Senior Managers on cross-functional initiatives spanning the Nike supply chain. You'll also work with the senior leadership of Nike's Customer Service and Go-to-Market organizations. You'll be responsible for hiring, coaching, mentoring and the career development for an IT team of approximately 65 people, including IT professionals with skills in Application Engineering, Business Systems Analysis and management. You'll lead the resource allocation and planning for all Order Fulfillment projects globally; participate in technology and business strategic planning; evaluate and make recommendations on technology solutions for business initiatives; develop and maintain a strategic technology roadmap; and manage a budget. In addition, you'll be responsible for developing and managing relationships with external service providers, technology vendors and multiple business partners to ensure successful solution delivery.

Senior Project Manager - Direct to Consumer - ,

As our Senior Project Manager for DTC, you'll provide leadership and direction of program execution and related projects to deliver strategic business capabilities. You'll drive executive sponsorship and connect the program vision to Nike stakeholders at a local and global level. You'll liaise with the Global Process Leads to stay aligned with the Global direction of the program. You'll maintain ultimate responsibility regarding program objectives operating within financial and resource constraints while ensuring that business processes and policies are adhered to within the context of program execution. In addition, you'll maintain ultimate responsibility regarding program objectives operating within financial and resource constraints.

Tech Services Specialist Intermediate - ,

Customer Service Focus

Build relationships with key customers and stakeholders to influence and execute within Nike/Cole Haan's strategic direction.
Understand and act upon customer abilities/priorities and service providers expectations to tailor the systems for mutual benefit.
Assist in educating and training current business users on the IT help desk setup and the benefits of the Nike technology/systems to their role or business. Ensure internal and external end users benefit from implemented enhancements.
Provide visibility and measurement of results against customer service metrics.
Participate in developing and maintain policies & procedures- Responsible for soliciting and communicating procedures, how to's & troubleshooting documentation.

Strategic Account Management

Assist in creating a single point of primary internal customer contact between service providers and business users.
Help provide solutions to Infrastructure issues by liaising & communicating with service provider, teammates, and business throughout the end to end process.
Help ensure escalated issues are addressed and resolved within business SLA's (Service Level Agreement).
Assist in maintaining relationships with representative(s) from external IT Service Provider(s) to ensure reliable and fully functional services from their catalog of service offerings.

Service Provider Performance Management

Responsible for ensuring business and Service Provider process compliance.
Provide input to the creation and updating of Service Provider SLA (Service Level Agreements).
Provide trend analysis and help manage Service Providers local performance.
Regularly collect customer requirements/feedback- provide insights to vendor and action plans to business users.
Have an understanding and knowledge of service catalogues and ensure the business is aware and regularly updated on service offerings.
Coordinate Service Provider reviews. Compile reviews for comparison to Regional IT team and Country IT Management.

Project Management & IT Business Consulting

Support the implementation of local country specific project plans that have IT technology requirements (e.g. Retail start ups, 3PL interfaces, etc).
Support the implementation of regionally driven project plans that have IT technology requirements.
Stay up to date on new technologies as they are relevant to local country projects. Understand and recommend solutions on the technical requirements of projects being supported.
Understand the country's strategic goals in a way that can be translated into service delivery requests.
Support the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Process.
Collaborate with Global & Regional SME's and RTM on country business requirements.
Facilitate network and planning requirements/improvements by ensuring network technology and bandwidth is meeting country business needs.

Technology Innovation & Leadership

Technology learning- Ensure current technologies are continually reviewed and understood for potential improvement recommendations at a country level.
Define and provide technology related capital & operational expenditure cost/benefit analysis and projections for IT related projects and determine impacts.
Drive best practice and a world class service offering by networking within the global/regional virtual team.
Make recommendations to the Region by driving technology enhancements beneficial to the country business.
Identify and drive operational excellence/efficiency within the country IT group.
Undertake any necessary technology training courses as required and as recommended by global/regional technology team.

Production Support Manager (Applications) - Global Store Support - ,

As our Global Store Support Application Production Support Manager, in this front-line manager role you will be an important part of a team responsible for the ongoing operations and support of the store applications and systems in over 300 Nike Retail stores globally. This includes everything from Factory Stores to Niketown showcase stores.

You will ensure continued store operations for stores working as designed, as well as working through external service providers, partners and internal teams in planning and executing deployment of releases, opening new stores, and supporting major projects. You and the team you lead will work with geographic Retail teams to incorporate specific local requirements for ongoing support and projects. You will help focus on introducing technological and process innovations to support new Nike business initiatives and to increase efficiency within the store environment. This work will require close collaboration with the development, quality assurance, project, operations, and business teams to ensure successful results.

You will mentor your team to deploy and support a full array of vendor supplied and internally developed systems. You will be responsible helping to plan and schedule work and resource management. You will provide your team coaching, development, motivation and performance reviews. You will be responsible for managing key vendor relationships and resources. You will lead your team in adopting, implementing and following standard "best practices" (e.g., SDLC, ITIL, LEAN) and Nike/departmental standards globally. You will oversee meeting relevant compliancy standards including PCI and security policies.

In addition, you will work in a team environment where you will be encouraged to express technical leadership, strategic and tactical directions, assist in decision-making, and openly share information across teams.

While this role will focus on the application support part of production support, you will be expected to achieve an appropriate level of understanding of the store hardware infrastructure and systems upon which the store applications are dependent upon in the Nike Retail stores. Additionally, you will be expected to provide leadership to allow you and your teams to easily flow to where the work demands as part of the overall Store Support team.

Production Support Manager (Infrastructure) - Global Store Support - ,

As our Global Store Support Infrastructure Production Support Manager, in this front-line manager role you will be an important part of a team responsible for the ongoing operations and support of the store IT infrastructure and Point of Sale (POS) application systems in over 300 Nike Retail stores globally. This includes everything from Factory Stores to Niketown showcase stores.

You will mentor your team to deploy and support a full array of vendor supplied and internally developed systems. You will be responsible helping to plan and schedule work and resource management. You will provide your team coaching, development, motivation and performance reviews. You will be responsible for managing key vendor relationships and resources. You will lead your team in adopting, implementing and following standard "best practices" (e.g., ITIL, LEAN) and Nike/departmental standards globally. You will oversee meeting relevant compliancy standards including PCI and security policies.

While this role will focus on the infrastructure support part of production support, you will be expected to achieve an appropriate level of understanding of the applications, tools, and business processes in the Nike Retail stores. Additionally, you will be expected to provide leadership to allow you and your teams to easily flow to where the work demands as part of the overall Store Support team.

In support of Nike's global retail focus, you will contribute to the integration and engineering of the Nike POS systems, including working with geographic Retail teams to incorporate specific local requirements.

Your subject areas will include traditional infrastructure components such as servers, storage, networks and workstations, as well as retail-specific infrastructure such as handheld devices, payment terminals, kiosks, ticket printers, loss-prevention systems, A/V systems, etc. You will work closely with the development, operations, and facilities teams to ensure successful results.

Senior IT Site Manager - Shelby Distribution Center - ,

As our Senior IT Site Manager for our Shelby Distribution Center, where we distribute Apparel, Equipment, Digital and Sports Marketing product, you will be the liaison to the Senior Supply Chain Partners and Facility leaders to develop and execute Distribution Center (DC) and regional IT business strategies. You'll provide leadership and direction in goal-setting, coaching, staffing and motivating a team of Intermediate and Senior Business Systems Analysts and oversee coordination, analysis and prioritization efforts for all facility system enhancements. You'll ensure that enhancements to the business processes are supported by cost-effective technical processes, facilitate a process to prioritize business requests, taking into consideration the impact to Nike business regionally, develop the business cases for complex business objectives that are integrated with multiple systems, and assess and evaluate ROI and manage documentation to be presented to senior management . You'll drive results and promote continuous process improvement, which will include planning and managing the budget for IT projects, ranging from small to very complex projects which includes multiple systems and business process change agents, all while ensuring all business objectives for the facility are met and resources and tasks are allocated appropriately. In addition, you'll be responsible for vendor management, including Nike Supply Chain USA Business Liaison for Outbound and Inventory Delivery objectives, coordination and prioritization; the control owner for SOX 404 WMS application, including change management development and maintenance, as well as management of documentation, remediation and standardization of all controls.

Senior IT Manager - Partner Integration - ,

As our ICC Partner Integration Senior Manager, you will lead and manage the people and activities related to the design of applications/projects for the Partner Integration team responsible for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). You'll provide industry leadership and Nike, Inc. alignment with global EDI industry standards defined within GS1. You'll be responsible for establishing standard practices for integration delivery, including experience implementing procedures and tools for the development and support for the EDI global platform. You'll provide leadership and direction, including strategic planning, technology consulting management, business systems delivery/application development, integration and human resources planning. You'll also provide the corporate leadership, vision and direction to ensure support of Nike's business objectives and requirements. You'll collaborate with customers, colleagues, external partners and other stakeholders to develop systems plans that address the information requirements of the business and build systems that support critical business strategies. You'll demonstrate expert human relations and influence skills to drive results and promote continuous process improvement. You'll demonstrate competency in strategic thinking, financial planning and leadership. You'll maintain the overall responsibility and accountability for directing a major staff function at a global level to provide leadership, vision and direction in the overall design, development and maintenance activities across functional groups, including long range strategic planning and budgeting. You'll direct feasibility studies, time and cost estimates for the establishment and implementation of new or revised systems and programs to improve business processes and support critical business strategies. You'll also coordinate overall activities and establish priorities to ensure deadlines are met within budget. In addition, you'll maintain administrative authority for all management level and staff in the department.

Senior IT Business Operations Analyst - Direct to Consumer Business Operations - ,

The heart of Nike is built around one simple idea -- innovate. Whether that innovation is called Nike Air or ACG or Nike Swift or Nike Shox, the principle is the same: think something that nobody has thought before, or improve something that already exists. It's how we create our products, and it's the way we treat the people we work with.

So take chances. Think bigger than the next achiever. Just know one thing. The more you succeed, the higher we'll raise the bar.

But would you really want it any other way?

As a Senior Analyst of IT Business Operations in our Direct to Consumer (DTC) team you will support the organization's mission of providing solutions that ignite growth and deliver value - always. In your role as a key player in the organization, you will help to optimize the organization's ability to successfully run itself as "a business," champion efforts to streamline our internal business processes and foster a culture of operationally and fiscally responsible leaders while growing the organization's processes and influence at Nike.

In collaboration with our team of Business Operations Analysts, you will be responsible for ensuring DTC excels in running our organization as an effective business in partnership with internal Nike Leadership Teams by delivering refined processes and standards. You will have ultimate accountability for the way our strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, HR and resource planning processes operate. This will include partnering with our corporate finance, accounting, and HR teams, as well as our project managers to align on project accounting deliverables. You will also be responsible for growing the DTC team's operations and financial management talents through hands-on proactive coaching, mentoring and training sessions.

Expert IT Solutions Architect - Global Store Solutions - ,

As our Expert IT Solution Architect, you'll be part of the Nike Direct to Consumer - Global Store Solutions and act as an expert on specific or emerging technologies in store solutions environment. You'll be an expert in IT architecture and all associated systems including integration methodology, business processes, process re-engineering and process improvement. You'll also be responsible for consultation with the business and knowledge transfer. You'll work on the most complex projects and contribute to the overall strategic vision of the organization. You'll integrate a broad range of ideas regarding IT architecture and develop strategies for migration toward the architectural vision. This opportunity also involves evaluating, designing and establishing technical protocols and standards for enterprise-wide use and evaluating vendor solutions. In addition, you'll provide integrated systems planning and recommend innovative technologies that will enhance the current systems.

As a member of Nike's direct to consumer architecture leadership, you will collaborate with architects from digital retail, retail merchandizing, brand retail, and retail BI organizations in designing the integrated architecture plan and roadmap for direct to consumer organization that is in alignment with Nike retail business strategies. As the expert architect of global store solutions team, you will design and own end-to-end solution architecture for Nike's brick & mortar (b&m) store solutions with a keen focus on future growth, and scalability. You will be a thought leader with expertise in high-profile communication with business and IT leadership. You will have an opportunity to integrate bleeding edge digital store solution into b&m store solutions as appropriate. The Global Store Solutions Architect must possess a keen understanding of application Developers as a primary audience and consumer of Architecture deliverables, and understand what they need to implement architectural strategies. You will be an advocate for integration Architecture and collaborate in evolving formal data architecture/data management processes which facilitate a vision shared, reusable data interfaces.

You'll provide thought leadership, create strategies and make recommendations on a wide variety of complex issues having a significant and strategic impact on processes and the business. You will create roadmaps that connect business strategies to IT capabilities, and provide a milestone view of the cadence needed to move from current state to future state. You'll help define and develop best practices and processes used by engineers as well as help define, develop and communicate standards, best practices and system build techniques and processes. The architecture that you will deliver will be pragmatic with applicability to meet immediate business needs.

Expert IT Business Consultant - Global Store Solutions - ,

As our Expert IT Business Consultant for Global Store Solutions, you'll work as part of the Direct to Consumer team in developing and supporting Nike's expansion of its US and global retail presence. This ground floor opportunity will provide you with an opportunity to apply your seasoned Retail Store Solutions expertise through consulting engagements with all levels of our Business and IT leadership to develop and implement store systems for Nike Retail stores across the globe. You'll lead business-process change-efforts, drawing upon your background as a business and technology specialist to drive a customer-focused approach to understanding the business requirements, and translating them into IT deliverables and objectives. You'll also work in a program management capacity, overseeing applicable resources, You'll track and manage costs, as well as manage through scope and functionality requirements, leading towards a global footprint. In addition, you'll be encouraged to express technical leadership, provide strategic and tactical direction, assist in the decision-making and openly share information across the team.

Senior IT Manager of Quality Assurance - Enterprise Planning and Operations - ,

What's IT like at Nike? At Nike, you'll push your colleagues to do their best work, and they'll turn around and do the same for you. At the end of the day what matters is being able to use the best technologies to help a great company perform even better.

As our Senior Manager of Quality Assurance under our Enterprise Planning and Operations organization, you'll manage and lead our QA Practice for SAP.You'll oversee the implementation and use of Quality Assurance tools/methods/processes while working with multiple cross functional teams to deliver a large project portfolio. You will lead and bring the future of QA to Nike. You'll help Nike create a strategic advantage by understanding business strategies, objectives, and processes and connecting these to delivery through innovation and Quality Assurance best practices. You'll lead the vision and evangelize it within the organization using your expertise and influence. You'll be able to work and communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization - from brainstorming with individual engineers to discussing strategy with senior executives. You and your team will provide Quality Assurance leadership and drive test solution development and project delivery with colleagues across multiple Supply Chain teams. You'll be expected to provide and exemplify exceptional leadership for the Nike QA community as a whole.

You'll be a trusted member of our leadership team with the following responsibilities:

Lead, develop, and evangelize the Quality Assurance vision and roadmap considering business strategy and trends
Determine, with key business and technology stakeholders, where technology can be used to create competitive advantage, by rapidly identifying and driving adoption of technology-driven business innovation. In some cases, this includes responsibility for prototyping technologies to demonstrate viability and business value
Define and drive adoption of architecture and software development practices across the various teams
Provide technical leadership in the evaluation, conceptualization, design, and development of major new capabilities, ensuring that technology choices and tradeoffs anticipate future needs while efficiently satisfying short term market requirements
Lead development of tools and frameworks to improve Quality Assurance
Be a driving force for constantly improving performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, availability and usability
Define and cultivate strategic technology partnerships including determining how to effectively leverage 3rd party solutions today and in the future
Partner with Nike enterprise architects in the creation of Nike's architecture strategy and roadmaps

Sr. SAP Business Systems Analyst - ,

As our Senior SAP Business Systems Analyst in Enterprise Finance Solutions, you'll be responsible for the delivery of sustainable, global solutions (SAP and non-SAP platforms). You'll utilize your understanding of related business processes and supporting systems, and translate business initiatives and requests into deliverables. You'll ensure application of Lean Business Solutions best practices and standards in delivering solutions. In addition, you'll collaborate with Business and IT partners on work prioritization, and provide input to budget planning.

Senior Business Systems Analyst - Northridge Distribution Center - ,

As our Senior Business System Analyst for our Northridge Distribution Center in Memphis, TN, you'll be responsible for applying advanced concepts, theories, principles and practices in a professional or technical discipline that is analytical, creative, evaluative and/or advisory in nature. You'll conduct work requiring substantial independent judgment and devise new approaches to unique problems as it relates to our Warehouse Management System(WMS). You'll develop conclusions and make recommendations on a wide variety of complex issues and ensure decisions are generally only reviewed for consistency with policy, precedent and overall effectiveness. You serve as a resource to mentor and lead other professional employees. You'll also work with remote groups, such as vendors and other Nike facilities and departments to gather and document strategic and tactical requirements from the business. You'll perform technical analytics related to advanced data analysis, data mining, and source to target mapping. You'll create and maintain complex context process and system diagrams. Furthermore, you'll perform advanced systems analysis and document system processes. You'll collaborate on advanced technical design. You'll perform and advise on triage and troubleshooting activities. You'll also oversee and/or perform complex testing activities, including construction of test plans/scripts, including the expected results and the validation of test results. You'll validate that the system design meets business process requirements. You'll be relied on to work with systems personnel to implement design. You'll communicate project status to management/business. Moreover, you'll develop project plan/timeline. You'll provide input to project management on risk management, and provide support and participate in change management at the department and end user level. In addition, you may lead small to medium size projects.

Web Operations Manager - Digital Commerce - ,

As our Web Operations Manager within Digital Commerce Information Technology (DCIT), you will lead and manage the people and activities related to on-going operations and support of our world-class e-commerce site, working closely with our application development teams to manage the delivery of business functionality and technologies that support Nike's Direct-to-Consumer business. As a key member of the Nike.com leadership team, you will provide operational and technical leadership for our Direct-to-Consumer platforms and technologies to ensure uninterrupted availability of our systems and technologies through proactive management of our production environments. You'll proactively manage site issues through effective prioritization and tracking of customer tickets and work directly with key technologies and suppliers as necessary to maintain on-going operations. You'll provide assessment of operational effectiveness and efficiency through targeted reporting of key operational metrics. You'll also design, implement and monitor processes and procedures required to support 24x7 site operations.

Senior Business Systems Analyst - Direct to Consumer Markdown Optimization - ,

As our Senior Business Systems Analyst for Direct to Consumer Markdown Optimization, you will help deliver IT business solutions, at the right time, for the right processes and in the right way (Globally, Consistently, Efficiently, Reliably, and Responsibly) to enable optimal performance for NIKE Retail. You'll create and maintain a collaborative partnership with the Retail IT Engineering teams and our Retail Business Units that will enable you to resolve issues and define requirements for enhanced processes and systems. You'll be responsible for delivering end to end solutions using diverse accountabilities in a Retail specific environment. These accountabilities include system and data analysis, reporting and data mapping, creating context and process diagrams, documenting business requirements and functional specifications, business and system use cases, creating and executing comprehensive test plans, and working with business users to document user operating instructions. This opportunity also involves influencing and communicating with business partners on the vision of our Retail systems at a strategic and tactical level. Possibility of leading small to medium size projects.

Intermediate Business Systems Analyst - Direct to Consumer Merchandising - ,

As our Intemediate level Business Systems Analyst for Direct to Consumer Merchandising, you'll help deliver IT business solutions, at the right time, for the right processes and in the right way (Globally, Consistently, Efficiently, Reliably, and Responsibly) to enable optimal performance for NIKE Retail. You'll create and maintain a collaborative partnership with Retail IT Engineering teams, Retail Business Units, and 3^rd party vendors to deliver business processes and software solutions to meet the current and future needs of NIKE Retail. You'll be responsible for delivering end to end solutions using diverse accountabilities in a Retail specific environment. You'll be responsible for system and data analysis, reporting and data mapping, creating context and process diagrams, documenting business requirements and functional specifications, business and system use cases, assisting with creation and execution of comprehensive test plans, and working with business users to document user operating instructions. In addition, you'll be involved in influencing and communicating with business partners on the vision of our Retail systems at a strategic and tactical level.

Lead SAP BW Application Engineer - Direct to Consumer Business Intelligence - ,

Nike is embarking on an exciting journey of significant business process change and systems development with the intended result of a truly information driven company. A component of this initiative revolves around a three year retail ERP and Business Intelligence (BI) program chartered for driving innovation in retail processes and information management. The BI program deliverables include consistent performance indicators (KPIs) for retail performance management, management reporting for line level KPIs and a facility for dynamic and flexible analytics.

Nike is on the leading edge of implementing SAP NetWeaver BW products in developing an integrated BI solution leveraging the Corporate Information Factory Reference architecture. The project requires integration of a diverse set of BI products into one comprehensive Information Management system. It will require a significant amount of innovation in supporting global scenarios, seamless integration of reporting tools against SAP BW, modeling and implementation of a Retail Data Warehouse, and support for near real-time Operational reporting systems.

As our Business Intelligence (BI) Technical Lead, you'll be responsible for the development work related to the technical implementation of a SAP BW data warehousing solutions in support of Nike approved Retail BI projects. You'll partner with our Business Solutions Delivery team to understand projects that are approved for implementation or are being studied for potential implementation and communicate with and engage the management team to ensure successful implementation. You'll also work closely with the Architecture team to make sure all solutions adhere to guidelines and principals already laid out and to provide input and feedback regarding the existing architecture. You will also be looked at to contribute to setting new development and architecture standards. You'll mentor and coach the technical team on approaches and best practices for leading large technical BI implementations. The team will consist of Nike and Nike partner resources working on site and remotely.

Team members on the program will have the opportunity to push the limits of technology in the exciting and emerging area of Integrated Business Intelligence. The task will not be easy and will require excellent communication & teamwork skills, and the ability to multi-task, innovate and challenge conventional thinking. Are you ready to accept the challenge and contribute as a member of this team?

Business Systems Analyst - Direct to Consumer Merchandising - ,

As our Entry Level Business Systems Analyst for Direct to Consumer Merchandising, you'll help deliver IT business solutions, at the right time, for the right processes and in the right way (Globally, Consistently, Efficiently, Reliably, and Responsibly) to enable optimal performance for NIKE Retail. You'll create and maintain a collaborative partnership with Retail IT Engineering teams, Retail Business Units, and 3^rd party vendors to deliver business processes and software solutions to meet the current and future needs of NIKE Retail. You'll be responsible for delivering end to end solutions using diverse accountabilities in a Retail specific environment. You'll be responsible for system and data analysis, reporting and data mapping, creating context and process diagrams, documenting business requirements and functional specifications, business and system use cases, assisting with creation and execution of comprehensive test plans, and working with business users to document user operating instructions. In addition, you'll be involved in influencing and communicating with business partners on the vision of our Retail systems at a strategic and tactical level.

Sr Application Engineer - IT - ,

Code Development & Configuration -

Develops code for high-risk, highly-complex requirements.
Configures applications or systems for high-risk, highly-complex requirements.
Installs software and software updates for critical systems.
Executes the deployment of code across environments.
Conducts design and code reviews.
Manages and facilitates cross functional issue resolution at a complex level.

Testing-

Creates test plans, execute tests and validate test results

Systems Analysis -

Perform Application Support, Problem Solving, and Issue Resolution with internal and external resources.
Contribute to technical solutions by performing technical analysis and making recommendations.
Reviews recommendations for technical solutions.

Technical Design -

Collaborate with other teams on integration needs/design.
Contribute to database design.
Create critical-path, high-risk, advanced technical designs.
Develop proof of concepts.
Ensure vendor technical/design documents comply with business requirements and Nike corporate standards.
Research and provide input into engineering tools selection.

Standards & Best Practices -

Applies architecture, governance and security standards.
Applies global process standards to system changes and deployments.
Maintains and applies coding/configuration standards and best practices.
Conducts research of emerging operational technologies.
Conducts Compliance Issue Remediation.

Project Support -

Contributes to the RFP process.
Identifies technical issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation. Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments.
Determines technical scope for projects.
Provides engineering task work effort estimates.
May manage a small project or small enhancements.

System Performance & Tuning -

Conduct performance monitoring, analyze performance against benchmarks.
Identify tuning/ optimization opportunities and make recommendations. Implement performance remediation.
Create performance test scripts and execute performance tests.

Solution Support -

Performs Production Support On-Call Responsibilities, including issue/incident troubleshooting and resolution.
Participates in After Action Reviews relating to Production Issues.

Senior Business Systems Analyst - HR and Corporate Solutions IT - ,

As our Senior Business Systems Analyst, you'll help provide technology solutions to address the needs of our our internal HR and Corporate Solutions business clients (which includes the areas within Legal, Corporate Services, Internal Communications, and Sustainable Business and Innovation). You'll participate in and lead components of the implementation of technology solutions, develop functional system designs and execute comprehensive testing plans. You'll also work on complex projects; take responsibility for more diverse accountabilities, utilize your specialized knowledge and strong competency with tools, systems and procedures; and conduct problem solving and decision making at both the strategic and tactical levels. This opportunity also involves partnering with the business units to develop integrated technology strategies and providing strategic consultancy support in defining or designing business processes and identifying enabling technologies based on customer requirements. In addition, you'll analyze and lead business process changes by utilizing appropriate technologies and leverage best practices.

Lead Business Systems Analyst - Direct to Consumer - ,

As a Business Systems Analyst Lead within Nike's Direct to Consumer Business Intelligence (BI) team, you'll play a key role in creating the next generation BI solution for Nike Retail. You'll be instrumental in the roll out of a Global infrastructure for BI based upon the SAP Retail Solution, SAP Business Warehouse, and other state of the art BI tools. You'll have the opportunity to work globally and will direct the day to day tasks of several BSAs on the initiative. You'll be instrumental in ensuring that business requirements are captured efficiently and effectively and that our BI solutions enable world class decision making for Nike's growing Retail business globally. You'll be a key influencer at Nike related to the creation of a culture that utilizes information to drive a competitive advantage in the marketplace. You'll collaborate with Application Engineers and our business partners to develop high-level designs, including logical models and functional specifications that leverage a variety of reporting tools and platforms. In addition, you'll facilitate and drive meetings with global participation and work with team members to ensure that the developed software meets our business partner's requirements.

Expert IT Solution Architect - HR and Corporate Solutions IT - ,

As our Expert IT Architect, you'll be part of of the Human Resources and Corporate Solutions (HR & CS) organization under Nike LBS and act as an expert in IT architecture and all HR and CS (legal, corporate services, internal communications, and SB&I) associated systems including integration methodology, business processes, process re-engineering and process improvement. You'll also be responsible for consultation with the business and knowledge transfer. You'll work on the most complex projects and contribute to the overall strategic vision of the organization. You'll integrate a broad range of ideas regarding IT architecture and develop strategies for migration toward the architectural vision. This opportunity also involves evaluating, designing and establishing technical protocols and standards for HR management systems, Workforce Intelligence, Talent management and HR business process, and evaluating vendor solutions. In addition, you'll provide integrated systems planning and recommend innovative technologies that will enhance the current systems.

As an Expert IT Solution Architect for HR&CS team, you will play a critical role in creating the technology roadmap and strengthening the technology footprint of HR systems for the future. You will own the solutions design, architecture roadmaps, and visioning for the entire HR & CS with a keen focus on human resources to begin with. You will be responsible for architecting the solutions across the spectrum - from business requirements mapping to technology to designing BI and reporting solutions. You will be responsible for leading the efforts for deployment of user friendly portal on HR systems for use by employees, HR professionals, and managers. You will develop and/ contribute to enterprise integration architecture and design methodology and standards, and promote to both technology and business partners throughout the company. The architecture that you will deliver will be pragmatic with applicability to meet immediate business needs.

You'll provide thought leadership, create strategies and make recommendations on a wide variety of complex issues having a significant and strategic impact on processes and the business. You will create roadmaps that connect business strategies to IT capabilities, and provide a milestone view of the cadence needed to move from current state to future state. You'll help define and develop best practices and processes used by engineers as well as help define, develop and communicate standards, best practices and system build techniques and processes.

Senior SAP Business Systems Analyst - HR and Corporate Solutions IT - ,

As our Senior SAP Business Systems Analyst in Human Resources and Corporate Solutions IT, you'll be responsible for the delivery of sustainable, global solutions (SAP and non-SAP platforms). Additionally you'll be responsible for applying advanced concepts, theories, principles and practices in a professional or technical discipline that is analytical, creative, evaluative and/or consultative in nature. You'll utilize your understanding of HR business processes, specifically around Payroll, and supporting systems, and translate business initiatives and requests into deliverables. You'll serve as a resource to mentor and lead other professional employees. You'll also work with remote groups, such as vendors, geographies, and Nike departments to gather and document strategic and functional requirements from the business. Furthermore, you'll perform advanced systems analysis and document system processes. You'll collaborate on technical design. You'll perform and advise on triage and troubleshooting activities. You'll also participate in testing activities. You'll validate that the system design meets business process requirements. You'll be relied on to work with systems personnel to implement design. You'll communicate project status to management/business. You'll provide input to project management on tasks, risk management, and provide support and participate in change management at the department and end user level. You'll ensure application of Lean Business Solutions best practices and standards in delivering solutions.

Senior SAP SCM Application Engineer - Planning - ,

What's IT like at Nike? Some things are a given. Like getting to work with the latest applications and technology. And being surrounded by full-time colleagues, not just consultants and hired guns. Around here, you'll push your colleagues to do their best work, and they'll turn around and do the same for you. At the end of the day what matters is being able to use the best technologies to help a great company perform even better.

As our Senior Application Engineer supporting SAP SCM for our Planning team , you'll help facilitate the transition of older systems to SAP SCM to design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand, and measuring performance globally . You'll design, develop, and implement solutions for Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) - DP and SNP modules and peform troubleshooting through ABAP/HTML/Java code peformance tuning and resolving issues within Capabile to Match (CTM) optimizer and Core Interface (CIF) Queue's for master and transactional data. You'll design develop, implement, and troubleshoot solutions using standard and custom BW objects, extractors, and process chains; extend BW structures and ensure dta staging and modeling implications have been addressed and integrate the solutions with the Enterprise Portal. This opportunity also involves implementing performance improvements for BW objects and designing and implementing front-end solutions using BEx. . In addition you'll also ulitlize a variety of tools for reporting and data provision solutions including but not limited to Reporting Agent, Ad-hoc Query Designer, HTML Enhancements, Java/VB Scripting.