Principal Enterprise Architect Remote East

Principal Enterprise Architect Remote East Central

NOW HIRING Location PA - King of Prussia Area Corporate Careers Category Information Technology - Solutions Delivery

Remote – East or Central Coast Preferred
Shape the Future of Technology at David’s:
Drive Enterprise Modernization and Strategic Architecture!

Define and govern the technology roadmap and architectural standards across the organization. This strategic yet hands-on leadership role is ideal for someone who can influence at the executive level while guiding detailed technical design and implementation.

• Must deliver with the mindset of David's dream maker "servant's heart" mentality i.e., you're either serving the guest or serving someone who does
• Must deliver work performance in conjunction with David's brand values of endlessly curious, customer-obsessed, passionately enthusiastic
• Must be able to maintain performance at a "tech start up within a 75-year-old legacy brand" i.e., to be the largest ai-enabled retail, media, and planning marketplace serving life's moments

We Make Dreams Happen!

The Principal Enterprise Architect will define and govern the technology roadmap and architectural standards across the organization. This role operates at a strategic and hands‑on leadership level—partnering with business leaders, product organizations, and engineering teams to ensure technology investments align with long‑term business objectives, operational scalability, and modernization initiatives.

The ideal candidate has deep experience architecting complex ecosystems across commerce, retail operations, data platforms, digital engagement, and enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring technology decisions align with business growth, modernization priorities, and operational resilience.
• Build and manage enterprise‑wide architecture frameworks across applications, data, integrations, security, and infrastructure.
• Own and evolve architectural governance processes, technology standards, reference architectures, and documentation.
• Lead architecture oversight for major programs including digital commerce (Shopify), ERP modernization, CRM evolution, data platform modernization, BI/analytics lifecycle, and cloud adoption.
• Evaluate and approve new technologies, vendor solutions, integrations, and modernization initiatives based on scalability, cost, alignment, and future‑state direction.
• Partner with product, engineering, and leadership teams to translate requirements into high‑level and detailed technical designs.
• Provide architectural leadership in platform evolution including composable architecture, microservices, APIs, event‑driven systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Serve as a technical advisor to senior leadership on technology investments, system interdependencies, and risk management.
• Mentor engineering and architecture talent, fostering consistency, reusability, and best practices across teams.

Core Requirements

• 8–12+ years of architecture or senior technical leadership experience, ideally in enterprise retail or multi‑channel commerce environments.
• Strong background designing and integrating large‑scale systems including:
• Shopify or enterprise eCommerce platforms
• CRM, ERP, OMS, POS, and fulfillment systems
• Proven expertise with modern architecture patterns:
  • API‑first / microservices
  • Event‑driven or pub/sub integration
  • Cloud architecture (Azure or AWS preferred)
  • Composable or MACH frameworks strongly beneficial
• Experience developing architecture governance models, standards, and architecture roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of privacy, regulatory compliance, identity management, and security frameworks (SOC2, PCI, GDPR, CCPA).
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate vendor platforms, make build‑vs‑buy decisions, and lead enterprise technology selection.

Preferred Experience

• Experience modernizing legacy or monolithic retail environments to cloud‑first, API‑driven models.
• Familiarity with Dev Ops, CI/CD, secure SDLC, observability, and automation frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise integration platforms (e.g., Mule Soft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, or equivalent).
• Business architecture knowledge including…