Engineering Manager, Engineering Data Platform Enablement

Nordstrom

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$166,000–$258,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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This role pays more than 50% of similar roles. Most pay $171,000–$244,537 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $212k versus about $208k for comparable roles.

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About Nordstrom

Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain offering a wide selection of clothing, shoes, accessories, and beauty products through its stores, Nordstrom Rack outlets, and online. Industry: Luxury Department Store Retail

Nordstrom currently has 67 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$258,000 across 24 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Engineering Data Platform Enablement

Engineering Manager: Engineering Data Platform Enablement joins the Data Platform Enablement team to maintain and evolve analytics and data platforms. In this player-coach role, you will lead engineering delivery, own platform reliability, and manage team growth while remaining hands-on by writing code and building automation. You will oversee BigQuery, Looker Core, Metabase, and AWS workloads, focusing on capacity planning, cost optimization, and access management. Key responsibilities include establishing LookML governance, managing incident response, and leading conversational analytics enablement. You must possess proficiency in Python, Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. The role requires managing enterprise access provisioning and deprecating legacy platforms like MicroStrategy and Tableau. You will utilize AI coding tools daily to solve complex data infrastructure problems and ensure operational health across the organization.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?

Median $267050 from 38 postings across 13 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead engineering delivery across BigQuery, GCP, Looker, Metabase, and AWS workloads.
  • Own platform reliability, incident response, and on-call rotations for production systems.
  • Drive capacity planning by forecasting growth, managing compute costs, and scaling infrastructure.
  • Manage enterprise access provisioning, governance, and security policies across the data platform.
  • Establish LookML governance, development standards, and deployment practices for Looker Core.
  • Lead the Conversational Analytics enablement strategy, including agent development and token utilization.
  • Write code, build automation tools, and perform pull request reviews as a hands-on contributor.
  • Mentor engineers on technical skills, architecture standards, and AI fluency.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams with accountability for delivery and people development.
  • 5+ years of experience building software, platforms, infrastructure, or data systems.
  • Hands-on proficiency in Python or an equivalent language for direct technical contribution.
  • Strong cloud experience across GCP and/or AWS with fluency in Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience owning access management programs at scale.
  • Daily use of AI coding tools and a point of view on how they change team workflows.
  • Data platform or BI depth in BigQuery, Looker, Metabase, Tableau, or MicroStrategy (preferred).
  • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud cost optimization, or SailPoint IdentityNow (preferred).

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