Senior Software Engineer, Data

Summary

Join Narvar as a Senior Technical Program Manager and lead company-wide initiatives, launching customer-facing products in a fast-paced environment. Drive cross-team programs, focusing on feature/product development, cloud migration, and infrastructure upgrades. Develop programs to enhance engineering productivity and deploy engineering playbooks for distributed teams. This role requires a strong program manager with experience in roadmap planning, estimations, prioritization, and resource allocation. You will coordinate large-scale cross-functional initiatives and deliver outcomes, working with stakeholders across various disciplines and time zones. Success in this position demands strong technical skills, data analysis capabilities, and exceptional communication skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Engineering
• 10+ years of technical program/product management experience or software engineering, systems engineering experience in a product-focused company
• 3+ years in leading & managing portfolio
• Track record of program management during all phases of software development (microservices, open source custom development) from annual/quarterly planning to kick-off to release planning to GTM/delivery, expertise in working with ambiguity, & ability to give clear directions to teams
• Strong customer & people empathy, sound judgment (balancing short & long-term business needs, trading off between costs, risk, benefits), & obsession with quality, reliability & correctness
• Ability to engage in technical discussions with engineering, product and operational teams and to make technology-related product decisions
• Engineering background and capability to build small tools to automate mundane and repetitive tasks
• Expertise in JIRA customization/automation enhancing progress tracking & reporting
• Ability to identify & drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions across the organization
• Experience operating autonomously and leading large-scale efforts across multiple teams and functions, with stakeholders in different disciplines across time zones
• Exceptional critical thinking & analytical skills and the ability to make informed & fast decisions related to technology solution design and direction
• Demonstrated experience in 'owning' and driving data-driven decisions (data analysis skills are key for this role)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, building strong relationships with stakeholders and teams across the organization

Responsibilities

• Drive planning & execution of complex cross-team programs (Feature/product development, cloud migration, infrastructure upgrades, etc)
• Develop and drive programs to improve engineering productivity, effective onboarding, continuous improvements, etc
• Help develop and deploy Engineering playbooks for the distributed teams working in hybrid mode (How we make things, how we operate, and how we function as a team)

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA/Management degree (preferred)
• Experience in eCommerce and SaaS, B2B2C domain
• Coding experience/background