Director of Enterprise Architecture

Director of Enterprise Architecture

Direct Hire Full-Time Role

Pay Rate: $95 - $105 per hour

Location: Dublin, CA - Hybrid Role

Job Summary:

The position of Director (Enterprise Architecture) reports directly to the VP, IT, and will be based in Dublin, CA. Responsible for driving IT strategy, roadmap, including evaluation, selection, and solution architecture (application and technology) to address the needs of the business portfolios (merchants, planners, supply chain, etc.). This position will be responsible for managing and providing leadership to a team of enterprise architects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strong strategic thinking (big picture thinking) vs solution architect delivery


• Strong communication and presentation skills to senior IT and business leaders


• Translate complex technology decisions into narratives that resonate with business leaders.


• Demonstrated competence in ROI, budgeting, and cost-benefit analysis


• Ability to keep current with industry and technology trends


• Strong data analysis and delivering actionable insight


• Ability to leverage their professional network


• Clarity, agility, and being organized to deal with ambiguous and evolving business needs


• Responsible for defining and maintaining the strategic technology roadmap and plans. Participate in the IT 5-year planning and annual budgeting process.


• Provide architecture and technology consultancy for the Application and Technology portfolio planning. Manage the delivery of strategic business, application, and technology architecture on projects to deliver desired business outcomes.


• Supervise other architects in the development of the architecture (application and technology) roadmap that aligns with the strategic objectives of business units and the different technology groups.


• With business or IT partner support, manage competing demands through negotiation and compromise to ensure that the holistic needs of the organization are met. Brings knowledge of Retail industry best practices and applies that information in discussing solutions that may address those needs.


• Provide enterprise architecture thought leadership to a cohesive team of solution/ data/ technical architects, external experts, and consultants.


• Performs business analysis activities at the strategic, operational, and organizational levels; works with key partners in the continual improvement of processes within the company. Takes the leadership role in exploring and analyzing new applications in the marketplace, technology, and infrastructure services.


• Ensure work produced by the team is aligned with other Enterprise, Application, and Portfolio architects, providing holistic enterprise solutions.


• Ensure completion of Architectural and project deliverables on time and under budget, and that anticipated business outcomes are achieved.


• Provide architectural and technical input for the definition, estimation, and delivery of projects.


• Drive the Enterprise Architecture process and evangelize the architecture community of practice.


• Leads the development of architecture metrics and reporting to evaluate and communicate the achievement and impact of the Enterprise Architecture function; presents Enterprise Architecture content to internal and external audiences, including cross-functional executive leadership.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture in the Retail industry and 15+ years combined in delivering IT Technologies, Solution architecture, or systems


• Demonstrated Retail Enterprise Architecture experience. Technically competent; able to supervise enterprise architects, solution architects, consultants, and external vendor resources


• Experience in a variety of applications and business architecture areas in the Retail domain (Merchandising, Supply chain, Stores, Marketing, Digital, etc), SaaS/ package solutions, Cloud platforms, Business capability modeling, advanced analytics (AI/ ML), Gen AI, etc.


• A solid understanding of industry best practices in Retail and Entertainment. Arch - ARTS, NRF models, TOGAF, ArchiMate, etc.


• Demonstrated ability to anticipate and handle complex issues, drive negotiations of solutions, and resolve conflicts


• Demonstrated 5+ years of experience in managing a team of enterprise architects, solution architects, and consultants.


• Demonstrated ability to execute basic financial analysis, such as ROI and TCO


• Undergraduate degree in information systems, computer science, or a related technical discipline. A master's degree is a plus.


• Strong analytical ability, judgment, and problem analysis techniques


• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and able to effectively operate with VP and above executives.


• Ability to work with teams that are geographically distributed and work across different time zones.


• Technically competent; able to supervise and provide leadership to other senior architects

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