Senior Principal Engineer – Inventory Network & Operations (Hybrid - Seattle)

Nordstrom

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$200,500–$332,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $188k
This role $266k
$124k most similar roles pay here $354k

This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $151,868–$223,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $266k versus about $188k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 30 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 30 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Principal Engineer – Inventory Network & Operations (Hybrid - Seattle)

As a Senior Principal Engineer at Nordstrom, you will join a high-impact team to unify fragmented inventory systems through integration architecture and common inventory language. Your daily responsibilities include designing and overseeing the integration between physical (warehouse, store) and financial (RMS, ERP) systems while driving warehouse consolidation onto a single WMS platform and managing store inventory ownership migration. You will establish enterprise-wide inventory standards by collaborating with Product, Engineering, Merchandising, and Supply Chain teams to ensure seamless data flow and consistency across all platforms. The role requires expertise in event-driven architectures, information modeling, system integration, strategic influence, solution evaluation, and multi-platform architecture, particularly with Manhattan Active or Oracle systems. Additionally, familiarity with AI/ML applications for inventory optimization is beneficial as you drive technical strategy and mentor engineering teams to ensure consistent implementation of integration standards.

What you'll do

  • Design and oversee integration layers between physical, financial, and operational inventory systems.
  • Establish architecture for multi-owner inventory management across 1st party and 3rd party models.
  • Drive adoption of standardized terminology and data models for inventory status and movement.
  • Architect solutions for near real-time operational visibility across different ownership models.
  • Create bidirectional integration patterns to ensure data accuracy between inventory and financial systems.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of enterprise-scale software engineering experience with a degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Deep expertise in event-driven architectures and real-time data integration patterns.
  • Proven ability to design integration layers for disparate inventory systems across multiple domains.
  • Demonstrated strategic influence in driving technical standards and architectural decisions across organizations.
  • Experience leading complex platform migrations while ensuring operational stability and minimal disruption.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML applications for inventory optimization, auditing, and predictive analytics.

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