Nordstrom

Sr. Principal Engineer, Employee Experience (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

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Base Salary

$201k - $332k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and communicate multi-year technical strategy and roadmaps for Finance, HR, productivity, and collaboration systems.
  • Own architecture and design patterns across ERP, financial operations, HR/HCM, recruiting, workforce management, messaging, workflow, and service-management platforms.
  • Establish SaaS integration patterns, API standards, event schemas, and data contracts across enterprise systems.
  • Lead large-scale platform modernizations, vendor migrations, technical-debt deprecations, and system consolidations across teams and business functions.
  • Define architecture for identity, access control, data protection, security, compliance, and resilience involving sensitive financial and HR data.
  • Guide evaluation and adoption of AI-enabled tools, automation, conversational assistants, intelligent document processing, and self-service capabilities.
  • Set technical standards, participate in architecture reviews, mentor senior and principal engineers, and advise on technical career growth and promotions.
  • Build consensus and partnerships with executives and stakeholders across Finance, HR, Technology, product, engineering, and business functions.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering, systems architecture, or platform engineering with progression to strategic, enterprise-scope technical leadership.
  • Hands-on experience architecting or engineering enterprise finance systems, ERP, general ledger, procure-to-pay, HR/HCM platforms, and productivity or collaboration tools.
  • Deep expertise in enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architecture, and data flows connecting core business systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, build consensus, and communicate technical value to executive stakeholders.
  • Working knowledge of security, privacy, regulatory, access-governance, segregation-of-duties, SOC, and data-protection considerations for financial and employee data.
  • Expertise with multiple cloud platforms, preferably AWS and GCP, modern application architectures, and enterprise SaaS ecosystems.
  • Ability to evaluate build-versus-buy tradeoffs and connect technical architecture to business outcomes.
  • Track record of developing engineering talent and building cross-functional partnerships across teams not directly managed.
  • Experience with platforms such as Workday, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, and Slack is preferred or relevant to the role.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, dental, retirement, paid time away, life insurance, disability coverage, merchandise discount, and EAP resources.
  • 401(k), medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, holidays, and additional benefits subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Hybrid position in Seattle, Washington.
  • The role may be eligible for performance-based incentives or bonuses.
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About Nordstrom

10,000+ employees

Nordstrom is a U.S. fashion retailer selling apparel, shoes, accessories, beauty, and home goods through department stores, off-price Nordstrom Rack, and e-commerce. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Seattle, it is a public company (NYSE: JWN) serving consumers nationwide, with technology, merchandising, and supply-chain teams supporting its digital and in-store operations.

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