Principal Architect

Principal Architect

The Principal Architect will be responsible for supporting the development of an enterprise-wide architecture strategy and accountable for developing and implementing an architecture roadmap for Product, Planning & Corporate Functions domains. This person will work closely with architects, engineers, developers, and business stakeholders on cross-functional initiatives that shape the future state technology landscape. The Principal Architect will drive a cloud-first architecture standard across and ensure existing and new solutions are delivered with sustainability, performance, and scalability.

This leader will have experience across the enterprise and in technology strategies and implementations that support Product Creation, Demand & Supply Management, Sourcing & Manufacturing, Merchandising, and / or Finance functions. Ideal candidates will also have experience in capabilities that support Warehousing, Logistics, and Order Management.

Our target candidate is a people-first leader that manages through influence, is highly strategic, and delivers meaningful results.

Principal Architect Responsibilities

• Define and deliver on an end-to-end Technology architecture roadmap in line with our business and technology strategy.
• Work closely with the Technology and Product leadership teams to shape and define the technology strategy and roadmap.
• Lead solution blueprinting and detailed design activities.
• Use architectural principles to design highly effective solutions to satisfy business outcomes and requirements.
• Ensure solutions are fit for purpose, secure, scalable, flexible, highly performance, future-proofed, and cost-effective.
• Design and document architecture at multiple levels (high level to detailed) and across multiple views (e.g., conceptual, logical, physical, data flow, and sequence diagrams).
• Translate business requirements into conceptual and detailed technology solutions.
• Perform third-party vendor assessments as well as lead proof of concept exercises.
• Assess risk of applications and make recommendations based on assessments.
• Provide guidance and supervision for the structured approach to business application solutions and implementation.
• Partner with the Security and Operations team to ensure solution compliance.
• Communicate the architecture to stakeholders and collaborate / coordinate with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures.

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Principal Architect Qualifications

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