We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Director of Architecture - Product, Planning + Corporate Functions. 

The Director of Architecture - Product, Planning & Corporate Functions will be responsible for creating an enterprise-wide architecture strategy for Crate & Barrel and developing and implementing an architecture roadmap for Product, Planning & Corporate Functions. The Director will collaborate with architects, engineers, developers, and business stakeholders on cross-functional initiatives to shape the future state technology landscape for Crate. This role will drive a cloud-first architecture standard and ensure that existing and new solutions are delivered with sustainability, performance, and scalability.

This position is remote with ~20% travel to corporate headquarters in Northbrook, Illinois

A day in the life as a Director of Architecture - Product, Planning & Corporate Functions...

• Define and deliver on an end-to-end Technology architecture roadmap in line with our business and technology strategy
• Work closely with the Technology and Product leadership teams to shape and define the technology strategy and roadmap
• Lead solution blueprinting and detailed design activities
• Use architectural principles to design highly effective solutions to satisfy business outcomes and requirements
• Ensure solutions are fit for purpose, secure, scalable, flexible, highly performance, future proofed and cost-effective
• Design and document architecture at multiple levels (high level to detailed) and across multiple views (eg. conceptual, logical, physical, data flow and sequence diagrams)
• Translate business requirements into conceptual and detailed technology solutions
• Perform third-party vendor assessments as well as lead proof of concept exercises
• Assess risk of applications and make recommendations based on assessments
• Provide guidance and supervision for the structured approach to business application solutions and implementation
• Partner with the Security and Operations team to ensure solution compliance
• Communicate the architecture to stakeholders and collaborate/coordinate with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures

What you’ll bring to the table…

• Seasoned experience architecting Enterprise Solutions
• Expertise architecting and delivering end-to-end solutions
• Experience with automation technologies
• Broad experience with a variety of Software Development Lifecycle methodologies
• A thought leader in new/emerging technology and its application in business
• Proven delivery application portfolios inclusive of Cloud technologies and on-prem solutions
• Experienced with defining Enterprise Technology strategy -- designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills with the ability to communicate well to technical and business audiences at the executive level
• Strong negotiating and consensus building abilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A self-starter that is naturally inquisitive, requiring only small pieces to the puzzle, across many technologies, both new and legacy - able to quickly learn new technologies and tools

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or comparable work experience; Master’s Degree preferred
• 5+ years of Cloud platform experience and leveraging its technologies. Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Azure is preferred and multi-cloud is a plus
• 10+ years as a Software Application Architect with experience collaborating with Development teams
• 10+ years of Architecture experience in Planning & Allocation, Merchandising, Sourcing & Manufacturing and/or Finance related technologies
• Experience with Blue Yonder Planning (Demand Forecasting, Fulfillment and Merchandise Financial Planning) ideal
• Experience with API frameworks delivering low-latency services on large datasets
• Experience architecting and delivering data integration, ELT and ETL solutions as well as microservices-based solutions
• Experience designing and developing performance-optimized data models, data pipelines, both batch and streaming

Minimum Starting Rate: $175,000.00 Annually

Up to: $215,000.00 Annually

Pay ranges will be adjusted upward as needed to comply with applicable state and local law. In addition to your salary, based on your role, associates may be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, sales incentives, and long term incentives.