About Gap Inc.
Our brands bridge the gaps we see in the world.Old Navy democratizes style to ensure everyonehas access to quality fashion at every price point. Athleta unleashes the potential of every woman,regardless of body size, age or ethnicity. BananaRepublic believes in sustainable luxury for all. And Gapinspires the world to bring individuality to modern, responsibly madeessentials.
This simple idea-that we all deserve to belong,and on our own terms-is core to who we are as acompany and how we make decisions.Our teamis made up of thousands of people across the globe who take risks, think big, and do good for our customers, communities, and the planet.Ready tolearn fast, create with audacityand lead boldly? Join our team.
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About the Role
In this critical leadership role, you will be accountable for all new capabilities for our highly scaled Ecommerce back-end services, powering Gap Inc.'s omni-channel platforms (Web, Mobile, Stores). You will be leading a high-performance engineering team practicing best-in-class DevOps and continuous delivery engineering practices.
In addition, you will be responsible for working with your Product Management, Architecture and Technical Program Management peers to build end-to-end product delivery and technology plans for this area, across of all Gap Inc.'s brands and markets.
A key part of your responsibilities will include instituting the right processes and practices to ensure high availability of all your applications and services at scale, while leading your team's Cloud-based technical roadmap. In your role, you will also lead oversight for the total cost of ownership for building, testing and running your products in Production - ensuring on time and on budget delivery.
You will be responsible to support our multi-billion dollar e-commerce services platform across all our brands, across multiple geographies, showcasing our products to millions of customers worldwide - making it fast, intuitive and rewarding to shop online!
What You'll Do
- Accountable for ensuring overall delivery excellence and high availability for the Cloud-based Catalog. headless APIs at Gap, Inc.
- Lead product and technical roadmap planning for the group, actively collaborating with key architecture, product, operations and program management partners
- Ensure successful delivery execution of large complex product initiatives consisting of multiple cross- functional / organizational Agile teams
- Maintain overall financial oversight as part of total cost of ownership for building all your product capabilities, Production support and Cloud consumption costs
- Participate in continuous delivery improvement efforts with modern agile, lean and design thinking practices
- Provide leadership, mentorship and oversight to a high-performance team of engineering managers and engineers across product delivery, technology decisions, engineering best practices and transformation
- Evaluate business needs, research and formulate application solutions, and make solution recommendations to Gap Tech leadership.
- Engineering leadership experience with managing services at high scale, preferably in a Retail setting
- Deep end-to-end technical knowledge building and running web applications, services and related technologies in the Cloud - Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud
- Proficient and hands-on experience with Java, J2EE, Spring, Payment systems, Messaging services, API design, Database systems and high-volume, multi-threaded microservices. Domain expertise with Product Catalog services, including Search and feeds is highly desired
- Ability to credibly challenge technical design decisions and approaches with highly talented product managers, architects and engineers
- Experience leading leaders and independent, high performing teams with demonstrated understanding of modern software development and infrastructure tools, processes and practices, including Agile Development, Cloud, DevOps
- Experience collaborating with product and program management to build detailed product and technical roadmaps that consistently meet budget / time expectations
- Strong executive presence and experience advising and interfacing with senior executives and business leadership on technology related issues, excellent executive-level verbal and written communication
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
- Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
- One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.
- Employees can take up to five "on the clock" hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.
- Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee's base pay.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
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Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.
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Please note that effective, June 30, 2022, Gap Inc. will no longer require any of its employees to wear face masks or require proof of COVID vaccination, unless required by local or state/provincial mandates or as part of Gap Inc's quarantine guidelinesafter being exposed to or testing positive for COVID. Therefore, please disregard any language in any job posting that refers to Gap Inc.'s face mask and proof of vaccination policy as said policy is no longer effective.