Manager Enterprise Architecture

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field required.
• Master's degree or formal architecture training such as TOGAF or equivalent is a plus.

• 6+ years of experience in architecture, technology strategy, or technical leadership roles, with progressive responsibility across complex enterprise environments.
• 2+ years of people leadership or matrix leadership experience, including mentoring architects or senior technical staff.
• Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise or domain architecture across business, applications, integration, and platforms.
• Experience working in cloud and hybrid environments at scale.
• Retail, omni-channel, supply chain, or consumer-facing digital experience is strongly preferred.

• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term architecture vision with near-term business needs.
• Proven ability to influence without authority across product, engineering, and business teams.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities.
• Experience defining architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, and target-state roadmaps.
• Working knowledge of business, application, and integration architecture.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or similar technologies.
• Working knowledge of data, martech, and digital platforms.
• Proficiency with productivity and visualization tools such as PowerPoint, Visio, and architecture modeling tools including ARDOQ, Bizz Design, or Abacus.

• Implement enterprise-wide architecture standards, principles, and guardrails across application, integration, and platform domains and projects.
• Partner with IT and business leadership to help establish a long-term enterprise architecture vision aligned to business strategy.
• Lead development of business architecture artifacts such as capability maps, value streams, and roadmaps to connect business strategy, operating models, and technology architecture.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and platforms, guiding adoption decisions based on value, risk, and architectural fit.
• Champion scalable, resilient, and sustainable enterprise solutions that balance innovation with operational excellence.
• Own and evolve enterprise architecture vision through project implementation across one or more of the following domains: marketing technology and customer engagement platforms; supply chain, inventory, logistics, and merchandising systems; store, POS, and unified commerce platforms.
• Guide architectural direction for capabilities such as campaign management, personalization, martech integrations, order management, fulfillment, and in-store operations.
• Identify and drive opportunities to simplify fragmented landscapes, reduce redundancy, and improve interoperability.
• Enable seamless, end-to-end omni-channel experiences through cohesive architecture design.
• Build trusted advisory relationships with senior business, product, and IT leaders.
• Ensure alignment between business priorities, transformation roadmaps, and technology investments.
• Translate business strategy into business capability models, value streams, and target-state projects that guide technology investment and transformation priorities.
• Represent Enterprise Architecture in executive forums, steering committees, and strategic planning discussions.
• Provide architecture-driven perspectives on investment decisions, risk trade-offs, and sequencing.
• Lead and participate in architecture governance processes, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards and principles.
• Collaborate with solution and domain architects to review and validate solution designs.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt implications, and long-term impacts early in the lifecycle.
• Support translation of business capabilities into cohesive, end-to-end architecture models and roadmaps.
• Partner with product, engineering, and delivery teams to ensure architectural intent is maintained throughout execution.
• Influence implementation approaches without owning day-to-day delivery responsibilities.
• Collaborate with application support and operations teams to address systemic issues and reduce long-term technical debt.
• Provide guidance on architectural trade-offs, patterns, and best practices.
• Contribute to innovation initiatives, proof-of-concepts, and pilot programs to evaluate new ideas and technologies.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve architectural maturity, simplify complexity, and improve time-to-value.
• Ensure architectural decisions, reference models, and key learnings are documented and shared across teams.
• Responsibilities may change; team members may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

• Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties.
• Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures, and rules…