Enterprise Digital Experience Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Act as the principal architect within the Molex Digital Customer Experience ecosystem.

• Define and refine the target-state Digital CX architecture.

• Establish architectural principles, reference frameworks, and best practices.

• Lead the digital architecture strategy for newly acquired companies, from technical due diligence to long-term integration.

• Create acquisition integration roadmaps covering Day 1, transition, migration, consolidation, and target-state adoption.

• Evaluate acquired websites, applications, product data, content, customer accounts, identity models, digital assets, search equity, and supporting technology.

• Define reusable methodologies for integrating acquired businesses into Molex capabilities such as Molex.com, MyMolex, Salesforce, product information platforms, APIs, search, identity, analytics, and marketing technology.

• Facilitate architectural decisions across Digital CX capabilities.

• Identify opportunities to streamline architecture, eliminate redundant functionalities, reduce technical debt, and enhance reuse.

• Advocate for an API-first, composable, event-driven, and cloud-based architecture where applicable.

• Collaborate with platform architects, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architecture to assess solution designs and address cross-platform challenges.

• Oversee technical due diligence for acquisitions, identifying risks, dependencies, modernization opportunities, and integration complexities.

• Create reusable Digital CX acquisition playbooks and architectural patterns.

• Ensure migration strategies encompass content, product data, customer identity, authentication, digital assets, SEO equity, analytics, and AI Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).

• Articulate architecture strategy, decisions, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise application development.

• More than 5 years of experience leading enterprise-scale digital or application integration projects.

• Proven experience designing integrations across various enterprise applications.

• Strong comprehension of API-first architecture and contemporary integration patterns.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).

• Experience in designing scalable web application architectures.

• Proficient in working with databases, data modeling, and enterprise application integrations.

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to business stakeholders.

• Strong organizational abilities demonstrated through leading complex cross-functional initiatives.

• Capability to influence without direct authority across multiple organizations.

• Experience in integrating acquired businesses into enterprise digital ecosystems.

• Experience with customer-facing digital platforms.

• Familiarity with Salesforce, Adobe Experience Manager, or other enterprise CMS platforms.

• Experience with Product Information Management solutions such as Salsify.

• Experience in building or utilizing enterprise APIs.

• Knowledge in designing cloud-native architectures.

• Understanding of digital analytics and customer journey platforms.

• Familiarity with SEO and emerging AI Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).

• Experience working in manufacturing or industrial technology sectors.

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable pay, offered as a monetary bonus or in another format.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.

• Life insurance.

• Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance.

• Disability coverage.

• Retirement plan options.

• Paid vacation and time off.

• Educational assistance programs.

• Possible infertility assistance.

• Potential paid parental leave.

• Possible adoption assistance.

• Flexible work environment.