IT Architect

OVERVIEW

Live the experience
. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity.

Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

This role bridges mobile engineering, solution architecture, and platform enablement for enterprise-scale commerce experiences. As a Mobile Application Architect, you will contribute to the design and evolution of Ulta’s mobile platforms across iOS and Android, helping ensure applications are scalable, maintainable, and deliver a seamless experience for millions of users. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams spanning payments, identity, engagement, personalization, and content systems to build secure, performant, and feature-rich applications.

You have hands‑on experience developing and integrating mobile solutions, understand mobile architectural patterns, and can translate business needs into technical design. You move comfortably between implementation and conceptual design, and you value clear documentation and team alignment.

• Partner with engineering, product, and platform teams to design and evolve Ulta’s mobile ecosystem.
• Contribute to defining mobile architecture standards, patterns, and guidelines.
• Collaborate with backend and API teams to ensure mobile‑first integration strategies.
• Participate in technical design reviews and assist in solution planning for new mobile features.
• Support the evaluation and adoption of modern mobile frameworks, SDKs, and tools.
• Ensure mobile applications meet performance, reliability, and accessibility standards.
• Advocate for maintainable code, modularization, and best practices in mobile app architecture (e.g., MVVM, Clean Architecture).
• Collaborate with Dev Ops and QA to streamline CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release quality.
• Produce clear architectural documentation and system diagrams to support development teams.

• 7‑10+ years of hands‑on mobile application development experience in iOS (Swift) and/or Android (Kotlin).
• Prior experience as an application architect.
• Experience contributing to application architecture or solution design for mid‑to‑large mobile apps.
• Strong understanding of mobile design patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, and modular application structure.
• Familiarity with mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and modern build systems (e.g., Gradle, Xcode Build, Fastlane).
• Experience integrating with backend APIs using REST or Graph
  
  QL, and working with API platform teams.
• Knowledge of performance tuning, mobile security fundamentals, offline experiences, and accessibility guidelines.
• Ability to produce clear documentation, basic system diagrams, and articulate tradeoffs in architectural decisions.
• Strong collaboration skills working closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers.
• Curiosity about emerging mobile technologies, frameworks, and platform capabilities.

• Experience working in enterprise‑scale or high‑traffic consumer mobile applications.
• Exposure to A/B testing frameworks, analytics instrumentation, or experimentation platforms.
• Familiarity with feature flag systems (e.g., Launch Darkly), remote config, or dynamic content frameworks.
• Experience with e‑commerce, payments, identity/auth, or personalization features.
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) or mobile backend services.

The pay range for this position is $ - $ / Year with the…