Staff Enterprise Architect

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

📋 Description

• Provide architectural leadership for a designated business or technology area or an enterprise-wide capability.

• Convert business strategy into target-state architectures and actionable technology roadmaps.

• Collaborate with leaders from business, product, engineering, data, and security sectors.

• Direct cross-platform decisions and reusable architectural frameworks.

• Assist engineering teams with implementation and adoption processes.

• Balance considerations of business value, security, reliability, scalability, and cost.

• Influence enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and platform options for Kohl’s projects.

• Oversee architecture for Business, Foundational, and Platform initiatives across various applications, integrations, and teams.

• Steer solution design and implementation within complex enterprise environments.

• Create current-state and target-state architectures along with modernization roadmaps.

• Offer architectural insights, influence stakeholders, and navigate trade-offs.

• Contribute to architectural and technical standards and reference models.

• Conduct architecture evaluations and provide guidance on implementation.

• Advocate for architectural practices through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mentorship.

• Drive the digital-channel architecture for kohls.com and native iOS and Android applications.

• Guide marketing technology architecture for personalized engagement, content delivery, and analytics.

• Lead integrations across mobile, web, marketing, and enterprise platforms.

• Integrate customer consent and privacy considerations.

• Define system boundaries and essential planning assumptions.

• Architect systems for CMS/DAM, CDP, personalization, experimentation, analytics, and digital discoverability.

• Design cloud-native, customer-oriented platforms, event-driven architectures, and containerized services.

• Address AI-enabled commerce, agentic commerce, conversational experiences, and agent-interaction technologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in a technology-related field, including previous leadership experience.

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

• Advanced understanding of systems design and experience in architecting and implementing large-scale enterprise systems.

• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and leadership capabilities.

• Ability to translate business priorities into target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, and actionable recommendations.

• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, resolve architectural trade-offs, and articulate complex technical decisions to business and executive audiences.

• Preferred: An advanced degree or equivalent in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Kohl’s Technology capabilities.

• Preferred: Experience in modernizing complex application ecosystems, including platform consolidation, incremental migration, and reducing technical debt.

• Ability to adhere to dress code requirements.

• Basic math and reading skills, along with legible handwriting and basic computer operation capabilities.

• Ability to maintain punctual and regular attendance and meet scheduling expectations.

• Ability to learn and adhere to company policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.

• Ability to receive and give direction from leadership and company personnel.

• Ability to collaborate as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others.

• Ability to maintain composure and operate in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple tasks within established deadlines.

• Ability to successfully complete company training programs.

• Ability to utilize a personal computer for communication and report generation.

• Ability to plan, prioritize, and monitor activities across various business units.

• Ability to complete or oversee assigned projects promptly.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.

• Access to company training programs.