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Petco · 12 hours ago

Director, Software Engineering (Customer Technology)

San Diego, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$195K/yr - $292K/yr

12+ years exp

Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents, and Petco partners. They are seeking a seasoned technology leader to shape the long-range technology strategy for their commerce platform and integrated systems, focusing on customer master data and modern AI-forward engineering practices.

Animal FeedNutritionPet

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Owns long-range technology strategy and architectural planning for our commerce platform, integrated systems, and customer master data ecosystem

Works closely with technical leaders to define and refine vision, architecture, and technology stack; leads efforts to drive timely, well-informed technical decisions

Leads the development of policies and standards to address complex business issues; provides strategic direction to cross-functional teams

Partners with Product Development to influence and shape data-driven capabilities built for business consumption

Advocates for enterprise technology initiatives within the enterprise backlog and ensures alignment to strategic priorities

Identifies interdependencies, risks, and emerging trends across technology programs; continuously improves data products, services, and delivery processes

Works with Program/Project teams and technical SMEs to create realistic, data-centric roadmaps; ensures accurate, timely execution and delivery

Applies strong engineering, analytical, and problem-solving skills to ensure solutions are technically sound, scalable, and aligned with business needs

Coordinates outsourced engineering efforts and cross-team collaboration across a variety of skill sets

Drives best practices in data architecture, data quality, customer master data governance, and modern data engineering

Champions the adoption of Generative AI, automation, and AI-driven insights across platforms and teams

Qualification

Customer master dataData management at scaleData warehousing (BigQuery)PythonSQLGenerative AIAI-enabled automationAnalytical skillsLeadershipProblem-solving skills

Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent work experience

12+ years of IT and business industry experience, including leadership of multiple large, cross-functional teams or programs and influencing senior stakeholders

Advanced technical and business knowledge across the software development lifecycle, quality assurance, project management, and related disciplines

Demonstrated expertise with customer master data, data management at scale, data warehousing (BigQuery strongly preferred), Python, and SQL

Experience leveraging Generative AI and AI-powered tools for engineering acceleration, analytics, and automation

Benefits

Health and financial benefits

401K

Incentives

PTO

Company

Petco

Glassdoor3.0

Where the Pets Go. Celebrating 60 years of helping pets live their best life!

Founded in 1965

San Diego, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.petco.com/unleashed

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