Portfolio Architecture - Corporate and Finance

 

Are you ready to bring your amazing self to work?   

 

At Macy's, Inc., we're on a mission to create a brighter future with bold representation for all. This is our Mission Every One. When you bring your unique personality to our team, you will help us tackle the barriers to representation so, together, we can realize the potential of every one of us. We understand the importance of bringing our whole selves to work, which is why our commitments to our People, our Communities, and our Planet will help us create a more sustainable and diverse future.     

   

The Portfolio Architect, defines a high-level portfolio architecture and advises on its implementation, drives alignment with enterprise standards while collaborating with Product leadership to drive out architecturally significant decisions and do just enough architecture to keep enabling development.  This role will work closely with Domain and Product Architects to ensure alignment with the overall organization's vision. This role supports and facilitates architecture assurance activities and reimagines the future of technology for their product/platform portfolio.  This role will be a critical contributor to Macy’s overall strategy for transactional and analytic data and help Macy’s on its journey in implementing our Google based data lake house.   

Macy's Technology provides modern tools, platforms, and services to all parts of the business. Our team supports millions of customers in connected commerce across the technology hub at Macy's. Join our team to help shape the future of e-commerce and set the pace in retail technology. Whether focused on store technology, supply chain tech, application security, merchandising systems, or the mobile app – you'll have opportunities to grow your career while finding meaningful ways to make a difference.    

 What you will do:  

Collaborate with the business (and respective domain/product inputs) to iteratively design an end-to-end technical solution for the portfolio  

Identify required architectural significant decisions and associated risks  

Collaboratively define key architectural components with domains/products through portfolio Agile events  

Identify opportunities for reuse and extensibility balanced against complexity, cost and timelines  

Collaborate with domains/products to identify non-functional requirements and provides appropriate guidance and leadership to help maintain quality solutions  

Facilitate the resolution and escalation of technical impediments raised by domain/products through close collaboration with product counterparts  

Manage, track, and refine functional and technical domain target state and roadmaps  

Support and facilitate architecture governance activities and front-door management process  

Manage evolution and advocacy for architecture function scope/model  

Provide technical guidance to teams on architecture and design   

Assess new opportunities and prioritize the roadmap  

 

Who you are:  

12+ years of experience in software engineering, engineering management, and delivering large-scale transformation initiatives in retail required.  

Executive leadership experience in managing multiple and large technology initiatives in distributed computing environments.   

Expert architecture and design skills with proven track record of doing so at large enterprises.  

Expert understanding of solution design and architecture standards.  

Cross-disciplinary technical expertise with development, operations, security, quality assurance, architecture and more.  

Experience in cloud technologies with a proven track record of migrating legacy on-premise applications into the cloud is required.  

Experience driving data architecture utilizing cloud native technologies.  

Experience constructing data mesh and advanced ingestion pipeline architectures.  

Experience in Agile, especially managing or participating in multi-functional Agile teams within a large enterprise.  

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and an innate ability to easily communicate technical concepts  

Articulate and persuasive leader who can serve as an effective member of the senior management team and who is able to communicate to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff.  

Collaborates and engages others by gathering multiple views and being open to diverse perspectives.  

Results and detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills while engaging and collaborative.   

Able to think operationally and strategically, have strong analytical skills, and process disparate data and information into a cohesive and responsive action plan.    

The ability to gain acceptance and win the confidence and cooperation of business partners is critical.