Principal Enterprise Architect
Columbia Sportswear Company24 hours ago
Portland, OR, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering leadership to create architectural plans aligned with product roadmaps and Columbia’s strategic vision.
- Design and connect resilient, extensible, operationally excellent, and cost-optimized enterprise integration solutions.
- Develop and promote architecture principles, reusable patterns, service and API design practices, and engineering standards.
- Serve as an architecture liaison among business teams, technical teams, company leadership, and external vendors.
- Mentor, guide, and train technical teams and improve organizational architecture literacy.
- Monitor technology trends and use research, case studies, and prototypes to identify new capabilities and improve the enterprise integration platform.
- Support engineering teams with technical designs, specifications, risk mitigation, architectural issue resolution, and efficiency improvements.
- Facilitate consensus, define solution options and key decisions, and mediate compromises across customers and technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of increasingly responsible professional experience in a technology-related field.
- 5+ years in technology architect or engineering leadership roles providing design leadership for technical, business, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience with enterprise-scale applications supporting product creation, supply chain, and corporate technology capabilities.
- End-to-end experience integrating enterprise applications using cloud-based services and APIs, with modern programming languages and frameworks such as C#, Java, or NodeJS.
- Expertise creating integration architecture presentations covering vendor packaged applications, cloud-native applications, services, and other applications.
- Familiarity with enterprise cloud architectures in AWS or Microsoft Azure.
- Demonstrated influencing, facilitation, communication, negotiation, analytical, and consensus-building skills.
- Experience working with international, virtual, and cross-functional teams and facilitating meetings with technical and business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and data-driven decision-making, including market analysis and synthesized recommendations.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based near Portland, Oregon, with an expectation of four onsite days per week, subject to business needs.
- 401(k) plan with a generous company match.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, and health savings account.
- Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services.
- Free confidential EAP+ counseling available 24/7/365.
- Wellness benefits, employee discounts, and a generous time-off program.
About Columbia Sportswear Company
Columbia Sportswear Company designs and sells outdoor apparel, footwear, and accessories for hikers, skiers, and everyday active consumers, and operates the Sorel, prAna, and Mountain Hardwear brands. The Portland, Oregon–based public company (NASDAQ: COLM) distributes through e-commerce, wholesale partners, and 500+ retail stores in 100+ countries. Founded in 1938, it runs a global supply chain and in-house digital technology teams that support its four brands.