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The Enterprise Architect I - Application Integration is responsible for Architecting, and directing software development efforts intended to conform with enterprise scalability, reliability and maintainability. This leader will help define the Application Integration Architecture and Integration Development Roadmap. This role will not have direct management responsibility but will lead multiple application development teams, third-party contractors and/or offshore resources.

Principal Duties:

• Serve as leader of the Architecture of all Applications Integration. Including Supply Chain, Merchandising, Global Sourcing, Back Office, Digital and Store Operation technology team
• Provide direction for Application Architecture, Design, Development, Unit / Integration Testing, Implementation and turnover documentation for assigned business domains
• Ensure Data Architecture aligns with business requirements and best practices
• Responsible for driving adherence to sprint and/or project milestones
• Collaborate broadly on the definition of key application performance indicators and SLA’s, measure and communicate across the IT organization
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with colleagues and business partners to ensure you are delivering on the promises we make as an IT organization
• Evaluate team members performance, provide candid feedback and coaching than enables and motivates them to achieve objectives
• Partner with ITIL Process Owners for Incident, Problem, Change and Configuration Management to ensure the correct application development processes are in place with the goal of continually improving operational excellence
• Ensure departmental procedures, practices and standards are managed and enforced
• Assist with preparation and management of capital and expense budgets
• Perform project and non-project related tasks and activities to support the department’s goals and objectives
• Serve as primary product lead on strategic initiatives
• Determine appropriate project structure, work streams and team leads
• Develop and maintain project plans with detailed tasks, activities, deliverables and timelines
• Evaluate project resource requirements
• Continuously assess and re-evaluate product priorities; develop contingency plans
• Document product decisions, action items, issues and risks
• Maintain product document repositories
• Serve as primary liaison with external vendors
• Maintain, manage and report on project financial budgets, actuals and forecasts.
• Prepare project status reports and steering committee presentations

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years senior IT leadership experience and understanding of all aspects of a large-scale application delivery function
• Ability to communicate and interact with all levels of employees and management
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects and meet aggressive deadlines
• Experience leading others in Lean and/or Agile methodologies; experience working in a product-centric organization is a plus
• Experience in Oracle, DB2, Machine Learning libraries, digital/ecommerce technologies
• Experience in migrating from monolithic development methods to microservices / container-based methods preferred
• Experience with GCP services such as Cloud Storage, Dataflow and Pub/Sub
• Experience with confluent message brokers, Talend Data Fabric, Data Virtualization and Data Engineering Architecture
• Experience with OIC Integration Patterns
• Experience optimizing Batch and Stream processes
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python and Data Modeling tools
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Action oriented, able to manage multiple priorities and meet timelines and deadlines
• Strong track record of delivering initiatives on time and on budget
• Has a bias to action and innovation, is curious, and is constantly learning

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems, master’s degree preferred.
• Certification or experience with Architecture frameworks TOGAF
• Certification or experience with Data Management framework CDMP