IT Architect Enterprise Architecture

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE: 

Enterprise Architects are a highly skilled technical resource who is an innovative thinker, capable of envisioning how technology can be leveraged to solve complex business problems and deliver business outcomes. They are responsible for architecting, designing and implementing scalable best in class enterprise initiatives in a highly dynamic and fast paced environment.  This role is a hands-on technical contributor who anticipates implementation risks, defines appropriate mitigation plans, and implements them as appropriate. They work closely with cross functional business and IT teams in a highly collaborative environment to architect well-designed solutions that lower business and IT risk, increase reuse, and lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH ALL THESE GOALS BY: 

• Business Architecture: Contributes to the creation and review of a systems capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business. Creates models and plans to drive forward the strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance. Undertakes responsibility for investigative work to determine requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information systems, data management, practices, procedures, organization and equipment.
• Solution Architecture: Contribute to the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers while balancing between functional, service quality and systems management needs. Ensure that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.
• Information Management: Develop and maintain the organization's strategy for managing data, ensuring that uniformly recognized and accepted data definitions are developed and applied throughout the organization. Ensure that the business processes and information required to support the organization are defined and devise appropriate standards, processes and data architectures. Evaluate the impact of any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations on the organization's use of information and develop strategies for compliance.
• IT Governance: Support the work of the governing authority/board, lead the review of management processes (and decisions) for compliance with the organization's strategy for corporate governance of information and develop architecture policies and standards.
• Culture: Establish, evangelize, and advocate for a community of collaborative technologist-centric culture.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: (need to differentiate from the Sr Architect)

• Manage portfolio of business capabilities.
• Manage Application Portfolio Management (APM) and related migrations.
• Create, enable, and manage the technology landscape.
• Partner closely with platform architects and support buildout of solution architecture for large initiatives.
• Build out cross-functional enterprise technology community.
• Support enablement and management of the enterprise tech debt register.
• Support enablement of enterprise technology strategies (API, Cloud, Data, Mobile, Open Source)
• Drive innovation culture through enabling a healthy technology community.
• Actively seek out opportunities to help the team grow and deliver quantifiable value.

THE ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or applicable work experience.
• 8 years of overall experience in information technology including architecture, design and development.
• 5 years demonstrated leadership experience in complex business and technical environments as an architect is required.
• Deep, hands-on technical acumen.
• Proactive, passionate, and possess learning mindset.
• Ability to multi-task and adapt quickly to change.
• Possess a strong work ethic; takes pride in producing a quality product.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent decision making and leadership skills.
• Ability to influence the organization to "get things done".
• Effective negotiation skills.
• Self-starter requiring minimal supervision.
• Some travel required.

At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.