Senior Enterprise Architect, Retail

Job ID: 249177
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Remote Eligible:Hybrid Schedule

 

Company Overview:

At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves.  We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us.  We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

 

The Opportunity:

 

Your role at Sephora:

As a Sr Enterprise Architect in Retail, you will work directly with Retail Partners to lead the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap to modernize our retail stores. You will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and architecture decisions across a wide range of retail systems. You'll be responsible for developing cutting-edge solutions that redefine the retail experience and position Sephora as an industry leader. You will play a crucial role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring that our retail systems are designed and developed in alignment with industry best practices and cutting-edge architectural principles. The ideal candidate should possess an in-depth understanding of software architecture, architecture patterns, microservices, cloud-based architectures, and building distributed applications.

 

 Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Enterprise Architect working with technology, product and business leaders to work on strategic goals. 
• Lead and guide the technology architecture team in defining and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient architecture solutions for various retail systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust architectural designs.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, and apply them to enhance the company's technology landscape.
• Develop comprehensive and detailed architectural blueprints for retail systems, including client-telling, POS, data management, reporting, etc.
• Champion the use of microservices and cloud-based architectures to create scalable, flexible, and cost-effective omni-channel solutions.
• Drive the development of distributed applications, ensuring seamless integration between different retail systems.
• Build a strategy for in-store and cloud development of applications with data synchronization, high availability in mind.
• Lead architecture in re-defining and modernizing the Retail & Payments Architecture practice which includes championing best architecture practices and modernization of architecture in the cloud and edge.
• Leverage your expertise in Oracle X-Store Suite to design, implement, and maintain retail technology solutions that streamline operations, enhance customer experience, and drive business growth.
• Bring expertise in designing and building next generation cutting POS systems including tablet and mobile POS.
• Build a strategy for in-store hardware, network and system architecture to support the POS, need for loss prevention, AI/ML based systems, augmented reality for beauty products.
• Develop strategy to optimize store operations which would also include in-store services and fulfillment from store.
• Apply expertise in event-based programming and architecture to design real-time, event-driven systems for retail processes and workflows.
• Provide guidance to support different ways for customer no-touch checkout, payment methods like tap to pay.
• Lead architecture in the maturing the process alignment internal and external partners such as other portfolios, Infosec, Enterprise Architecture and vendor partners
• Collaborate with the architecture community on architectural topics for communicating and publishing out to the broader Tech & Engineering teams
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product management, business stakeholders, and IT operations, to ensure alignment of technology solutions with business needs.
• Present technical concepts and solutions in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build collaborative partnerships with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, technical leads, and key individuals within other functional groups.
• Demonstrate Sephora's values in Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative.

 

We are excited about you if you have:

• 12+ years of experience