Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture

Principal Architect
- Enterprise Architecture

Come make the world and accelerate your success.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world's most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:

As a Principal Architect
- Enterprise Architecture, you'll be part of our Information Technology Team team working as a remote employee. Enterprise Architect serves as a strategic technology partner to the business, responsible for translating strategic opportunities into actionable, business-aligned technology strategies. This role ensures that technology investments deliver measurable value and support the organization's long-term objectives. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Integration, ERP, Data, AI, and related domains, and excels at bridging business needs with innovative technology solutions.

Provides the reusable standards, guidelines, patterns and frameworks and has extensive knowledge of architectural frameworks, methodologies, and tools. You'll get to:

• Partner with business leaders and IT to understand strategic objectives and translate them into actionable architecture artifacts (capability maps, value streams, operating models, and roadmaps).
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring alignment between business goals and IT strategy.
• Support portfolio planning by linking initiatives to capabilities and strategic outcomes
• Track and communicate the value delivered by technology initiatives, using metrics and KPIs to demonstrate business impact.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops and architecture reviews to drive alignment and decision making
• Establish and maintain architectural standards, templates and governance practices
• Promote application, integration, data architecture strategy, including data governance, quality, security
• Lead the adoption and integration of AI/ML technologies across capabilities, ensuring responsible and ethical use of AI
• Interacts with various business and IT stakeholders throughout the planning, PMO, SDLC and Service Management processes
• Leads the complexity reduction agenda by enabling alignment to standards
• Working with the BUs, responsible for retirement of obsolete applications and technologies
• Incorporates domain specific strategies into the future state BU app portfolio
• Facilitates the effective integration of frameworks and corresponding processes with other related business and IT processes and patterns from an architectural standpoint
• Leads / facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide information, technology, and solution decision making for the enterprise
• Oversees development and maintenance of conceptual, logical, and physical application architecture

The Person:

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You're not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn't it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:

Functional

Skills:

• Ability to tie together solutions across systems
• Business acumen in multiple capability areas (Finance, Supply Chain, Enterprise Services), preferably in manufacturing industry
• Business process modeling
• Facilitation
• Knowledge of required technologies (incl 3rd party solutions)
• Understanding of future technologies
• Project & Product Delivery Model knowledge
• Strong understanding of value tracking methodologies and experience with business case development.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Technical

Skills:

• Cloud computing / SaaS technologies
  - Azure, Google, AWS
• Container Strategies - (Kubernetes, EC2, Docker)
• Dev Ops
• Microservices
• Enterprise architecture Framework- TOGAF,Zachman
• Integration Architecture - APIs, ESBs, ETL, REST/SOAP
• Data Analytics
  - No
  
  SQL, Data Lakes, Power BI/Tableau
• Security Framework
• AI/ML Frameworks
• ERPs…