Lead Enterprise Architect

We are Builders First Source, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value‑added components and building services to the professional market.

At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.

The Lead Enterprise Architect is a senior technology generalist. The ideal candidate should possess the following key attributes:

• Ability to architect technical solutions that drive and support strategic business processes, ensuring the solutions are comprehensive, robust, scalable, and aligned around core business needs
• Continuously demonstrate technology thought leadership and build collaborative relationships within business and IT teams based on integrity and clarity of purpose
• Advocates for the reduction of technical debt associated with simplified solutions that deliver specific business outcomes
• Evaluates and recommends technologies that solve business challenges, enhance customer and Team Member experience, and drive competitive advantage
• Actively collaborates and communicates across the BFS organization; acts as a facilitator, technology evangelist, innovator and change agent

This role requires interaction at multiple levels, including working with frontline teams, corporate representatives, IT owners and BFS leadership. The ideal candidate will be focused across all layers of technology, including solution, application and security architectures, and will also provide technical mentoring to other IT peers.

• Contribute to and execute on BFS IT strategy to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and objectives
• Maintain a holistic view of the organization’s strategy, processes, information, and technology assets
• Lead architectural efforts for medium to large projects or complex components of projects
• Design and implement short and long‑term strategic goals for managing and maintaining systems and software
• Create business, capability and technology roadmaps
• Review compatibility and technical specifications of the current architecture to recommend appropriate, timely and necessary improvements or enhancements
• Ensure the translation of integrated user requirements into effective solution architecture and design across products or systems
• Define and develop new system specifications, processes and technologies
• Create systems interfaces and business application prototypes
• Analyze and resolve system design issues by considering infrastructure and technical performance
• Break down complex topics into manageable small steps that lead to incremental progress
• Understand and communicate downstream impacts of solution design changes and technical analytical findings to team and external stakeholders in concise business language; partner with business and technology subject experts to translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Document varying levels of architecture, strategy, guidelines, and principles
• Coordinate, review and approve projects to ensure they are compliant with architectural standards, policies and guidelines
• Monitor and analyze industry, technology and market trends to determine their potential impact or application for the organization
• Conduct research and proofs of concept on emerging technologies in support of anticipated development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility

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• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; master’s degree preferred
• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 8 years of hands‑on experience working as a Technology/Application/Solution Architect implementing medium to large‑scale initiatives
• At least 4 years of experience working in Enterprise Transformation initiatives such as Legacy application modernization, Data & Information Transformation, App portfolio rationalization, AI / GenAI at scale,…