- Partner with product and engineering leadership to provide expert technical recommendations and build an architectural plan in consideration of product roadmaps and Columbia's strategic vision
- Transition business and technology strategy todelivery through the design of composable solutions spanning multiple capabilities
- Advocate of domain driven design and architectural principles of security, privacy, scale, uptime, and reliability
- Strong bias to balance tactical timelines, cost, and risks
- Identifybusiness and technical continuous improvement opportunities throughengagement on product roadmaps and strong engineering partnerships
- Scale organization's enterprise literacy through landscape analysis and modeling
- Participate in the design, development, and documentation of best practices and procedures including reference architectures and implementations. Advocate and drive adoption of architectural and engineeringbest practices and standards at Columbia
- Architecture liaison for business teams, technical teams, and Columbia leadership. Provide technical mentoring, guidance, and training throughout the organization
- Monitor IT trends to identify new capabilities with a focus on innovation and modernization for supply chain. Provide technical guidance and insight to the business and technology leaders
- Leverage research, case studies, and prototypes to develop leading edge solutions that increase business value. Work closely with other architects and engineeringtoresolve IT architectural issues, mitigate risks, and optimize cost savings and efficiencies
- Design solutions to be adaptable, comprehensive, configurable, and scalable to promote reuse and minimize total cost of ownership
- Support engineering teams and ensure solid technical architecture in consistency to company's architecture principles. Provide input to technical designs and specifications
- Engage with external vendors and their technology teams to ensure architectural standards align with CDT's commercial software standards
- A thought leader that is consultative in their approach
- An influencer that can drive common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams
- Passionate about cloud platform and solutions
- Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff
- A creative strategic thinker with the ability to solve complex problems; able to exercise independent judgment in a highly complex global environment using leading-edge technology and/or integrating diverse systems
- Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, negotiating and marketing skills to work with users, senior management, and external personnel on significant matters, often requiring coordinated activity across functional and organizational lines
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years increasingly responsible professional experience in technology-related field
- 5+ years in technology architect or engineering leadership roles providing design leadership to technical, business, & cross-functional initiatives
- Familiarity with enterprise-scale applications supporting critical product creation and supply chain capabilities including Product Development and Merchandising, Order Management, Warehouse Management and Fulfillment, and Transportation Management
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Product Creation - Portland, United States - Columbia Sportswear Company
Description
ABOUT THE POSITION
Although we are an apparel and footwear focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear's Digital Technology (CDT) teams enable an IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.
The Digital Architecture team is at the heart of blueprinting the digital transformationof Columbia Sportswear, Mountain Hardware, Sorel, and Prana brands. We serve our business and technical partners through strategic integrated planning and end-to-end solutions to accelerate feature delivery for critical initiatives.
As the Principal Supply Chain Architect, you will collaborate to design innovative product creation and supply chain solutions that will transform our technical footprint. You will be vital in crafting the future architecture for our platforms for global supply chain models and solutions.
While working through solution designs and critical initiatives, you will partner with technical product management, engineering teams, other architects, and business leaders to design modern, forward-looking, and resilient solutions that meet business objectives. Solutions will be extensible, operationally excellent,cost-optimized, and aligned with architectural design principles.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for discovering and documenting opportunities for growth and efficiency,adopt a continuous learning environment, and provide strategic advantage through innovative solutions, storytelling, building collaborative and inclusive partnerships, and transitional architectures.
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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company. Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: The pay transparency policy is available here: Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.At Columbia Sportswear Company, we're proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family's financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, ID theft, and legal services). We have extensive wellness benefits and employee discounts available.
