Director, Software Engineering (P4130)

About the role

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase. Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing. Join us at 84.51°!

Responsibilities

• Execute the vision, goals, priorities, and work alongside the team to accomplish them.
• Ensure high-quality technical solutions.
• Leading and coaching direct reports in the performance of responsibilities; providing ongoing feedback to direct reports and completing performance reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement to deliver solutions that are at the forefront of industry leading techniques while also adhering to best practices.
• Directly support technical mentoring and growth of team’s technical maturity through pairing and other coaching techniques. Grow new mentors from emerging talent.
• Support a culture of learning and development. Promote and enable technical skills development in support of high-quality code components, systems, and solutions.
• Partner with Data Scientists, Engineers, and Product talent to ensure our solutions deliver against requirements, scope, and system deployment needs.
• Help lead the technical vision and strategy for prompt engineering, ensuring innovative and efficient approaches to drive excellence in data products, scaled sciences, and/or AI based products.
• Building relationships with key partners within the business and Kroger Technology organization to share best practices, help accelerate the growth of both organizations, and deliver joint initiatives as appropriate.
• Leverage a servant leadership approach in the recruiting, motivating, mentoring, and growing of world-class teams and creating a followership that teams want to work with.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels in both verbal and written communications