Director, Product Engineering at GSI Commerce

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Director, Product Engineering

at GSI Commerce in King of Prussia, PA, USA

GSI Commerce provides e-commerce solutions enabling retailers, branded manufacturers, entertainment companies and professional sports organizations to operate e-commerce businesses. To view a list of some of our partners, please visit http://www.gsicommerce.com/index.php/en/ourpartners

GSI’s e-commerce solution includes Web site design and development, e-commerce technology, managed hosting, order fulfillment, customer service, merchandising and order management, online merchandising, customer relationship management, content development and online marketing. The company operates either all or a portion of the e-commerce businesses for approximately 90 partners. GSI Commerce trades on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the symbol, GSIC.

As Director, Product Engineering, you will lead cross-functional, product development teams responsible for the design, development & enhancement of our world class suite of products that our clients use to conduct global ecommerce.

The ideal candidate for this very visible leadership position will have more than ten years of professional experience developing and delivering enterprise software products. A background working with ecommerce technologies and/or packaged software is a strong plus.

The candidate will have a successful history of building and leading product development teams, and a sustained track record of delivering high-quality solutions on-time and on-budget. The candidate will maintain all financial, labor-based and status-related information for all product development activities within his/her domain. He/she must demonstrate a strong competency in creating an environment that fosters accountability, quality, commitment, growth, and innovation.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Strong leadership, organizational, diplomatic and motivational skills with ability to quickly adapt to change.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence a cross-functional team to deliver results.
• A strategic thinker with strong analytical skills.
• Ability to define needs, develop plans, coordinate resources and implement action plans.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines.
• Proven track record of delivering highly available systems and quality software products on time and on budget.
• Experience with high-transaction volume & 24X7 availability production environments. Experience within the ecommerce domain is a strong plus.
• Experience with building, motivating & mentoring high-performance software development teams.
• Experience with a variety of development methodologies and mature understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Experience with Project Management Tools is a plus.
• Experience with enterprise software architecture and Domain Driven Design, and development technologies including J2EE, Java and SQL databases

• Superior verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences.

Experience – Minimum Qualifications

• BS with advanced degree preferred (e.g. MS, PhD. in Computer Science)
• Must have 10+ years significant experience in full-lifecycle, large-scale software development
• Must have 5+ years managing technical project teams in Java/J2EE/Unix architecture with heavily data-drive applications
• Must have 5+ years as a Software Engineering Manager for a software technology company, managing teams of 20+ persons in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

• Must have significant prior hands-on software engineering experience as a programmer, software engineer, developer, etc.

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