About the Role
As Staff Enterprise Architect, you will lead architectural direction for an assigned business or technology domain or shared enterprise capability. Partnering with business, product, engineering, data, and security leaders, you will translate business strategy into target-state architectures and actionable technology roadmaps. You will guide cross-platform decisions and reusable architectural patterns in partnership with fellow enterprise architects, while working with engineering teams to support implementation and adoption. Within the broader enterprise architecture strategy, you will balance business value, security, reliability, scalability, and cost to enable cohesive, maintainable capabilities.
What You’ll Do
- Influence future enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps in alignment with business priorities and enterprise strategy
- Assess emerging technologies and platform options for Kohl’s initiatives, evaluating business value, technical fit, risks, and adoption considerations
- Lead architectural direction for Business, Foundational, and Platform initiatives spanning multiple applications, integrations, and teams
- Guide solution design and implementation across complex enterprise environments, balancing business value, security, reliability, scalability, and cost
- Develop and maintain current-state and target-state architectures and modernization roadmaps for assigned domains and capabilities
- Provide architectural expertise, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and resolve tradeoffs in partnership with fellow enterprise architects and teams
- Contribute to architectural and technical standards and reference patterns, guiding adoption through architecture reviews and implementation guidance
- Promote consistent architectural practices through cross-team collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mentoring engineers and technical leads
Addendum
Staff Enterprise Architect - Digital and Marketing
- Drive architectural strategy for digital channels, including kohls.com and native iOS and Android applications, aligning platform evolution with business priorities and customer-experience goals
- Guide marketing technology architecture for personalized engagement, content delivery, and measurement
- Lead integration strategies across mobile, web, marketing, and enterprise platforms to enable consistent omnichannel experiences and reliable customer data flows, incorporating customer consent and privacy requirements
- Establish initial system boundaries, and key assumptions during planning with fellow enterprise architects and engineering leaders
- Experience architecting marketing technology capabilities, including CMS (Content Management System) / DAM (Digital Asset Management), CDP (Customer Data Platform), personalization, experimentation, and analytics
- Experience architecting systems for digital discoverability, including content rendering, structured data, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
- Experience designing and delivering cloud-native, customer-facing platforms, event-driven architecture, and containerized services
- Experience architecting systems optimized for digital discoverability, content rendering, structured data, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Understanding of emerging AI-enabled commerce patterns, agentic commerce, conversational experiences, and agent-interaction technologies such as WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol)
What Skills You Have
Required
- 6+ years of experience in a technology-related field, including prior lead experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
- Advanced knowledge of systems design and experience architecting and implementing large-scale enterprise systems
- Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking and leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to translate business priorities into target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, and actionable recommendations for teams
- Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, resolve architectural tradeoffs, and communicate complex technical decisions to business and executive audiences
Preferred
- Advanced degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
- Understanding of Kohl’s Technology capabilities
- Experience modernizing complex application ecosystems, including platform consolidation, incremental migration, and reduction of technical debt
6+ years technology experience including lead experience; bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science or related field; advanced systems design and enterprise architecture skills; ability to influence stakeholders and translate business priorities into architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- leading architectural direction
- developing technology roadmaps
- mentoring engineers
Skills & Tools
CMS, DAM, CDP, SEO, GEO, AEO, WebMCP
Job Details
- Category: Information Technology
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States
- Languages: English
About Kohl's
A retail company operating department stores and an online shopping platform. — Industry: Retail and Wholesale