Engineering Manager – Digital Insights

Nordstrom

Engineering Manager leading the digital insights data team at Nordstrom. Ensuring reliable data analytics and strategy alignment across product, marketing, and platform teams.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $166,000 - $258,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define how Nordstrom measures its digital business
Set the technical direction for how behavioral data is captured across web and app
Lead a team of senior engineers and analysts — setting clear expectations for technical quality
Own a high-scale data platform that turns raw web and app interactions into session-level behavioral data in near real time
Raise the standard for data modeling, transformation, and data quality
Bring delivery discipline that the team and its partners can count on
Be the face of the team to the business — translating complex data work into clear business value for partners across merchandising, marketing, customer, and digital strategy

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of relevant work experience in data engineering
2+ years of experience managing engineering teams, or strong tech-lead experience ready to step into people management
Depth in data engineering — building and operating data pipelines at scale with strong SQL, a modern cloud data stack, distributed systems, and event streaming
Hands-on experience with digital, behavioral, or clickstream data — web and app analytics at scale
Demonstrated agile delivery discipline: a team that ships what it commits to, on the date it commits to
A track record of influencing without authority and communicating with candor — aligning product, engineering, and business partners with competing priorities, and raising concerns early with solutions in hand
BA/BS in Computer Science or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
Life Insurance and Disability
Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
Performance-based incentives/bonuses
401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringSQLdata pipelinescloud data stackdistributed systemsevent streamingdata modelingdata transformationdata qualityweb analytics

Soft Skills

team leadershipcommunicationinfluencing without authorityagile delivery disciplineproblem-solvingexpectation settingtranslating complex datacollaborationalignment with stakeholderscandor

Certifications

BA/BS in Computer Scienceequivalent practical experience