{"id":3844781,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nike-distinguished-engineer-data-knowledge-ai-platforms-itc","title":"Distinguished Engineer - Data, Knowledge, & AI Platforms - ITC","company":{"id":1634,"name":"Nike","domain":"nike.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/nike","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":89,"open_postings":64,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.625,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":19,"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T00:20:28Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T18:38:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH\nThey will collaborate closely with senior leaders across Data, AI, Knowledge, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture, while partnering with product and engineering teams across Nike Digital, Supply Chain, and Enterprise Technology, as well as external technology partners and vendors driving platform innovation and scale. They will also provide technical leadership to a broad community of principal engineers, architects, and engineering teams across geographies, shaping a culture of engineering excellence through mentorship, technical guidance, and cross-functional influence.\nWHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR\nWe are looking for a seasoned technical leader with deepexpertisein enterprise data and analytics platforms-someone who combines strong architectural judgment with hands-on experience building and scaling modern data ecosystems in complex, global environments. This individual should be fluent in cloud-based platforms, distributed systems, and modern data components, including batch and streaming pipelines, orchestration, storage, metadata, and observability.A strong foundationin semantic layers, ontology, taxonomy, and knowledge graphs is critical, along with the ability to design platforms that support the full data lifecycle-from ingestion and transformation to governance and self-service access.\nThe ideal candidate brings proven experience defining technical direction, simplifying complexity, andestablishingscalable architectural patterns, standards, and guardrails that drive consistency, reliability, and long-term maintainability. Beyond technical depth, we are looking for someone who can partner effectively across engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams, and who leads through influence, mentorship, and credibility to elevate engineering excellence and align platform capabilities with business and developer needs.\nWHAT YOU’LL WORK ON\nYou will shape the technical direction of Nike’s enterprise data, analytics, and AI platforms, driving architecture, modernization, and innovation at global scale. You will partner across engineering, product, infrastructure, and security to build resilient, intelligent, and self-service capabilities that accelerate business impact.\nYou will define and advance the long-term technical strategy for enterprise data and AI platforms, with a focus on scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.\n\nYou will lead platform architecture and modernization across cloud-native data, analytics, and AI capabilities that support global engineering and business teams.\n\nYou will build platform components that enable Semantic layer, Ontology, Taxonomy and Knowledge graphs.\n\nYou willestablishstandards and reference patterns for platform design, governance, observability, automation, and high-quality data operations.\n\nYou will partner with product, platform, infrastructure, and security leaders to align roadmaps and enable self-service experiences at scale.\n\nYou will champion innovation in AI, GenAI, automation, and real-time data capabilities to unlock new platform and developer value.\n\nYou will influence senior stakeholders and mentor engineering leaders to raise the bar on technical excellence, platform outcomes, and organizational capability.\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\nBachelor's degree in computer science or related field. 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