Enterprise Architect, Customer Facing Systems

Job Description: • Establish North Star Vision of technology landscape with area leaders of Digital Engineering across multiple applications, development processes, and infrastructure requirements • Work with Project Portfolio Management team and business stakeholders to estimate new work, create overarching solution design , and ensure both business and technical goals are met with the estimates • Oversee Solutions Design/Architects in the space of eCommerce, Stores, Order Management, Microservices in Customer facing technology space, Personalization & Marketing Technology • Team up with the functional leaders across Technology, including Infrastructure, Networking, security, and application leaders to define standards meeting a large set of use cases. • Develop, train, and mentor other application architects both through project work and/or POC work for solutions design. This includes regular technical updates to the team, informal and formal training sessions, and 1-1 coaching • Create a roadmap with business and technical leaders to support our modernization needs as well as achieve business outcomes. • Document architectural standards and design patterns for reference in decision-making, development and build practices. • Ensure leverage and use of the architectural practices, DevOps and other standards are built into future and existing projects • Perform market assessments on new technology tools to understand capability differences amongst providers, and ensure alignment with A&F architectural and security standards. • Support Application Rationalization efforts to simplify application landscape and standardize on modern technology. • Lead and/or participate on technical user groups, task forces, and committees that are relevant to architecture. • Responsible for continually growing their skills and knowledge. • Perform related duties as assigned. Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 18+ years' experience in various roles of technical leadership within a large-scale organization • Deep architect/engineering experience with web and app front end for an omni-channel retailer • Experience architecting large scale ecommerce, store, order management, and Microservices • Experience implementing Customer Data Platform, Personalization and Marketing technology would be nice to have • Experience with designing solutions involving technologies including but not limited to: React, JavaScript, Redux, Solr, Redis, Elasticsearch • Knowledge of DNS, CDNs, and global traffic routing for eCommerce • Experience with designing cloud hosted microservice architectures • Experience in integration with point of sale solutions and RFID in retail setting • Demonstrable ability to partner with data teams on patterns to empower deep analytics in digital space. • Strong integration mindset – API first, headless or composable patterns, event streams • Comfort with architecture modeling and roadmapping (capability maps, reference architecture, transition states). • Not just slideware or low-level solution designs • Nice to have: Experience with Agentic Commerce, Hyper-Personalization tools, Unified Commerce. Benefits: • Incentive bonus program • 401(K) savings plan with company match • Annual companywide review process • Flexible spending accounts • Medical, dental and vision insurance • Life and disability insurance • Associate assistance program • Paid parental and adoption leave • Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot • Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace • Paid Caregiver Leave • Mobile Stipend • Paid time off and one paid volunteer day per year, allowing you to give back to your community • Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are “work from anywhere” days for most roles and six work from anywhere weeks per year) • Seven associate wellness half days per year • Merchandise discount on all of our brands • Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within • Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups • Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU! Apply tot his job Apply To this Job