Enterprise Integration Architect

About the Position

Columbia Sportswear’s Digital Technology teams enable a comprehensive IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. The Enterprise Integration Architecture team works at the heart of the company’s digital transformation, supporting the Columbia Sportswear, Mountain Hardware, Sorel, and prAna brands through strategic integrated planning and end‑to‑end solutions that accelerate feature delivery for critical initiatives.

• Own integration architecture patterns including APIs, events, and data flows aligned to canonical domain models.
• Design end‑to‑end integration solutions balancing scalability, resiliency, cost, and delivery timelines.
• Ensure solution designs adhere to enterprise architecture principles and platform standards.
• Scale organization’s data & integration literacy through the modeling and design of enterprise services and APIs, adhering to canonical domain models.
• Engage business partners effectively to understand objectives, constraints, and outcomes, translating business needs into pragmatic integration and data architecture solutions.
• Partner with engineering leaders to shape architectural plans aligned to product roadmaps.
• Provide design guidance, design reviews, and hands‑on problem solving during delivery.
• Advocate best practices for API design, eventing, and integration reliability.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and modernize integration platforms.
• Mentor and upskill teams on integration and data architecture patterns.
• Engage with vendors to ensure solutions align with Columbia standards.

• Thought leader who is consultative in their approach.
• Influencer who can drive a common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams.
• Passionate about cloud platforms and solutions.
• Excellent communicator with both technical and non‑technical staff.
• Creative strategic thinker with the ability to solve complex problems and exercise independent judgment in a highly complex global environment.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, negotiating, and marketing skills when working with users, senior management, and external personnel on significant matters requiring coordinated activity across functional and organizational lines.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years increasingly responsible professional experience in a technology‑related field.
• Demonstrated domain experience across Supply Chain, Planning, Product Creation, and Direct‑to‑Consumer (DTC) business capabilities supporting enterprise‑scale platforms and integrations.
• 5+ years in technology architect or engineering leadership roles providing design leadership to technical, business, and cross‑functional initiatives.
• Familiarity with enterprise‑scale applications supporting critical product creation, supply chain, DTC, and corporate technology capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience designing, delivering, and operating enterprise integrations across their full lifecycle (design, build, deployment, and ongoing operations).
• Experience with event‑driven architecture, async messaging, or streaming.
• Familiarity with leading enterprise cloud/virtual architectures in AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Highly skilled at creating compelling architecture presentations covering enterprise‑scale vendor‑packaged applications, native cloud‑based applications, services, and other applications.
• Demonstrated influencing leadership skills expressed through teamwork, facilitation, active listening, and multi‑modal communication (written, visualization, and verbal) with customers.
• Strong team orientation and ability to thrive on virtual, international, cross‑functional teams.
• Experienced in facilitating meetings with multiple customers and technical staff, including building consensus, defining key decisions and solution options, and mediating compromises when necessary.
• Passion for data‑driven decision making supported through strong analytic skills, internal due diligence, market analysis, structuring hypotheses, and development of synthesized findings and recommendations.

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