About Amy’s
At Amy’s Kitchen, we're more than just a food company—we're a family-owned,
proudly independent organic, and vegetarian food company on a mission. As a
Certified B Corporation®, our purpose is clear: to make it simple and enjoyable
for everyone to eat well.
We're committed to crafting authentic, mouthwatering dishes using only the
finest organic ingredients sourced with care. From farm to table, we ensure
top-notch quality in every bite, making healthy eating accessible and convenient
for all. At Amy’s, we're not just serving meals; we're serving up a taste of
goodness, one delicious dish at a time.
Perks are as delicious as our meals!
Comprehensive health plans with Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, plus
Flexible Spending Accounts. Mental health support with Modern Health to nourish
your and your family’s mental well-being. 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer
match and Financial Wellness support at no cost to plan for the future. Referral
Rewards and Scholarship Program to celebrate and invest in our teams. Tuition
Reimbursement Program to fuel your educational pursuits. Paid parental leave for
new parents. Paid Time Off for vacations and sick days, with 9 paid US Holidays
annually to savor those special moments. Amy's product discount reimbursement to
keep your pantry stocked, plus remote gym discounts to keep you moving and
grooving! Join us and indulge in a career where the benefits are as fulfilling
as our food!
Bay area California Compensation: $142,400 to $213,600
Other locations will be subject to a lower range.
The Senior Manager, Engineering & Enterprise Architect serves as the
organization's primary enterprise architect, providing enterprise-wide
leadership for the design, integration, governance, and strategic direction of
applications, infrastructure, data platforms, and development practices. This
role establishes architecture standards, governance processes, and the
Architecture Review Board (ARB), while serving as the key architecture
decision-maker across on-premises and cloud environments. The role also leads a
team of Integration/Productivity Platform Engineers and Data Engineers, ensuring
technology solutions align with business objectives and long-term technology
strategy. This is a player-coach role that combines direct enterprise
architecture accountability with engineering leadership for a technical team.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
General
- Serves as the organization's primary enterprise architect and maintains
accountability for enterprise architecture across all technology domains.
- Directly performs and leads enterprise architecture activities, including
architecture strategy, standards, governance, and solution reviews, while
managing engineering resources responsible for implementation and operational
support.
- Possesses broad and deep technical knowledge across enterprise platforms
and can assess multiple solution options against business and technical
criteria.
- Provides architectural guidance, mentorship, and direction to other
technical staff, including direct reports.
Application and Integration Architecture
- Owns end-to-end application architecture across core platforms, including
Oracle ERP, UKG, Azure-hosted applications, and associated middleware and
integration layers.
- Defines integration patterns, API standards, and data exchange protocols,
with particular focus on Azure cloud-to-on-premises connectivity over Nutanix
infrastructure.
- Evaluates and recommends integration and middleware technologies to reduce
point-to-point coupling and technical debt.
- Partners with application owners and project teams to embed architecture
standards into project delivery, from vendor selection through go-live.
- Maintains current-state and target-state architecture documentation across
the application and integration portfolio.
Infrastructure Architecture
- Serves as the enterprise architecture authority for all infrastructure
domains, including the on-premises Nutanix hyperconverged data center
environment and the Azure cloud platform.
- Defines and governs infrastructure architecture standards, including
network topology, compute and storage patterns, identity and access management,
and security boundaries.
- Owns hybrid connectivity architecture between Azure and on-premises
environments, ensuring designs meet requirements for performance, resilience,
and security.
- Establishes workload placement criteria and cloud adoption patterns that
guide infrastructure decisions across the organization.
- Partners with infrastructure teams on platform roadmaps, capacity
planning, and technology lifecycle decisions for both Nutanix and Azure
environments.
- Ensures infrastructure architecture aligns with and enables the broader
application, data, and development strategy.
Data and Analytics Architecture and Platform Ownership
- Serves as architect and product owner for the Azure Synapse/Databricks
data platform, owning the platform roadmap, vendor relationship, licensing, and
governance model.
- Defines data architecture standards, including data integration patterns,
data modeling conventions, platform access controls, and data lifecycle
management.
- Ensures the data platform is architected to support current reporting and
analytics needs while scaling to meet emerging AI and machine learning use
cases.
- Partners with data engineering, analytics, and business intelligence
stakeholders to align platform capabilities with organizational data strategy.
- Governs data flows between Oracle ERP, UKG, and the data platform,
ensuring integration patterns are consistent, maintainable, and auditable.
Enterprise Architecture Governance and Standards
- Establishes and operates an Architecture Review Board (ARB), defining
scope, cadence, escalation paths, and decision rights.
- Develops and maintains architecture principles, standards, and guardrails
appropriate to the organization's scale and maturity.
- Implements an architecture review process that supports project delivery
without introducing unnecessary delay.
- Builds relationships with business stakeholders to ensure architecture
decisions reflect business priorities.
AI-Assisted Development Strategy and Internal Build Capability
- Co-owns the organization's transition from a purchased-application model
to an internal build capability, including defining build-versus-buy criteria
and the boundary between internally-developed applications and systems of
record.
- Architects the standard approach for internally-built applications that
extend or surface data from Oracle, UKG, and the Synapse/Databricks data
platform.
- Designs and governs the architecture for AI-assisted development
practices, including the use of AI coding agents to support documentation,
testing, and validation of deliverables against requirements.
- Establishes architecture guardrails for internally-built applications,
including security boundaries, data access controls, API design standards, and
application lifecycle management.
- Partners with the Director of IT Strategy and Business Solutions to
support the evolution of Business Systems Analyst roles toward Product
Owner/Developer responsibilities.
- Evaluates and recommends tools supporting internal development, including
hosting platforms, CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and AI development
assistants.
Team Leadership
- Leads and develops a team of Integration/Productivity Platform Engineers
and Data Engineers, ensuring engineering activities align with enterprise
architecture standards and technology strategy.
- Acts as the primary architecture mentor and subject matter expert for the
organization, providing architecture direction across all technology
initiatives.
- Promotes a culture of documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous
improvement within the team.
- Serves as a technical mentor for team members transitioning into product
ownership and internal development roles.
It is the responsibility of all employees to uphold the mission of the Amy’s
Food Safety and Quality Policy. This includes following all Food Safety and
Sustainability programs and participating in all required training.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- This position carries supervisory responsibility for 3-5 direct reports.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering,
or related field, plus 8 or more years of progressive IT experience, including
at least 4 years in an enterprise or solution architecture role, or an
equivalent combination of education and experience.
QUALIFICATIONS
Application and Integration Systems Knowledge
- Demonstrated experience designing and governing application integration
architectures in complex, multi-system environments.
- Hands-on familiarity with Oracle ERP (Cloud or EBS), including data flows,
integration points, and extensibility patterns.
- Experience with UKG or comparable HCM platforms from an integration and
data perspective is preferred.
Infrastructure Knowledge
- Experience designing and governing enterprise infrastructure architecture
across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including networking, identity,
security, and platform services.
- Familiarity with Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure, including AHV,
Prism, and related platform capabilities, is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to define hybrid connectivity patterns, workload
placement criteria, and cloud adoption guardrails.
Data and Analytics Platform Knowledge
- Experience with Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, or comparable modern
data platform technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to define data architecture standards, govern data
integration patterns, and manage a data platform roadmap.
- Familiarity with data governance, data lifecycle management, and platform
security practices for cloud-based analytics environments.
- Experience in product or platform ownership — managing vendor
relationships, licensing, and capability roadmaps — is preferred.
AI-Assisted and Modern Development Practices
- Working knowledge of modern software development practices, including API
design, CI/CD, automated testing, and application lifecycle management,
sufficient to govern and guide an internal build function.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tooling is preferred,
including agentic coding assistants, prompt engineering for development
workflows, or designing AI-augmented SDLC pipelines.
- Experience defining a build-versus-buy strategy or standing up an internal
development capability in an organization transitioning away from SI-dependent
delivery is preferred.
- Familiarity with governing edge or citizen-developer application patterns
that extend core systems without creating unmanaged technical risk is preferred.
Governance and Standards
- Proven ability to establish enterprise architecture governance practices,
including architecture standards, review processes, or ARB operations, ideally
in a greenfield or early-stage EA environment.
- TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent enterprise architecture framework
certification is preferred.
Project Management
- Able to manage multiple concurrent architecture initiatives involving a
range of stakeholders with minimal managerial assistance.
- Familiar with relevant project management tools, artifacts, and
methodologies.
Agile/Scrum Techniques
- Able to operate effectively within Agile/Scrum delivery models and guide
architecture input into sprint planning and backlog refinement.
Professional Skills
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate architecture
concepts for business and executive audiences.
- Comfort operating as an individual contributor while building a function
and influencing stakeholders without formal authority.
- Problem solving and decision making.
- Organization and planning.
- Active listening.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to define complex, ambiguous problems, evaluate multiple architectural
options, and draw sound conclusions. Ability to interpret a wide variety of
technical and business inputs in written, verbal, and diagram form and reconcile
competing priorities across abstract and concrete variables.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
None required. TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent enterprise architecture
certification is preferred.
CONFIDENTIALITY
During the normal course of performing his/her duties, the employee is often in
direct or indirect contact with confidential and/or sensitive information. The
employee shall keep such contact to a minimum wherever possible and will hold
all such information in the strictest confidence and with the highest
professionalism.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to
sit, stand, walk, and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to
use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop,
kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25
pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and
color vision.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met
by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to
perform the essential functions.
TRAVEL
May be required to travel up to 5% of working time.
REMOTE OR HYBRID WORK OPTION
This role can be remote.
This position is not eligible for sponsorship.