Senior Principal Engineer – Inventory Network & Operations (Hybrid - Seattle)

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Job Description A Senior Principal Engineer at Nordstrom serves as a strategic technical consultant influencing enterprise-wide architecture and engineering practices. This role drives design trade-offs, solves systemic challenges, identifies industry trends for implementation, and ensures solutions are robust, scalable, and cost-effective. The Senior Principal Engineer shapes Nordstrom's technology landscape while maintaining a "One Nordstrom" perspective. We seek a Senior Principal Engineer to unify fragmented inventory systems through integration architecture and common inventory language, enabling near real-time operational visibility. You will oversee integration between physical (warehouse, store) and financial (RMS, ERP) systems while driving warehouse consolidation onto a single WMS platform and store inventory ownership migration. This role requires extensive collaboration across Product, Engineering, Merchandising, and Supply Chain teams to establish enterprise-wide inventory standards. A day in the life ... Integration Architecture: Design and oversee integration layers between physical, financial, and operational inventory systems while leading critical transformations...