Director, Enterprise Architecture & Integration

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Job Description

The Opportunity: 

The Director of Enterprise Architecture and Integration is a strategic leader responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the organization's technology landscape. This role oversees both the Enterprise Architecture Team and the Enterprise Integrations Team, ensuring that architectural frameworks support business strategy and IT capabilities. This leader will provide visionary leadership to drive a cohesive and optimized enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and domain architecture for Mattel.  

This leader will have excellent domain experience in these areas, as well as a proven success record of delivering business value and organizational transformation in a matrixed IT environment with reliance on offshore delivery partners and global teams.  They will bring a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modern technology solutions, excellent vendor management skills, and have a proven track record of modernizing and transforming technology capabilities aligned to business process transformation. Experience leading enterprise architecture in the consumer product goods (CPG) industry is highly preferred.

This position will be a key member of the Global Technology Organization’s leadership team. This leader is a key contributor to the development and execution of the enterprise-wide IT strategy, while maintaining its alignment with the enterprise's business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business success.

This position will be located in El Segundo, CA. 10% travel is expected.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Define and implement architecture governance processes to drive structured decision-making and risk mitigation.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework that will best support Mattel’s corporate goals, speed to delivery, and operational excellence.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring it aligns with business objectives, IT capabilities, and organization goals of simplification and consolidation.
• Establish and enforce technology standards and guidelines, fostering consistency and scalability across systems.
• Manage and grow a cross-functional enterprise architectural team with expertise in corporate systems, digital and marketing systems, end to end supply chain systems, and security and compliance capabilities.
• Lead the Enterprise Architecture team in project work operating in both Hybrid and SAFe Agile methodologies.
• Drive the strategic development and go-to-market architectures of innovative platforms, applications, and solutions that accelerate product creation, enhance customer engagement, and optimize market penetration.
• Lead product selection using an established methodology bringing together multiple cross-functional business and technology stakeholders resulting in product and platform alignment.
• Serve as both the player and coach based on the need, with the ability and willingness to not only manage and mentor a team but to also generate enterprise architecture deliverables such as roadmaps and high-level designs.
• Strategic ability to present and align architectural vision internally to GTO and externally at with business senior leadership.
• Serve as the architectural leader for the Oracle Cloud ERP transformation within the Global Supply Chain domain.
• Identify viable emerging technologies that enhance the company's competitive edge in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry.

Solution & Domain Architecture Excellence

• Ensure solution architecture optimally supports enterprise integration, scalability, and performance.
• Oversee domain architecture development, ensuring modular, reusable, and cohesive technology components across business functions.
• Drive interoperability across core systems, including ERP, CRM, PLM, MDM, PIM, EQMS, Supply Chain and Digital platforms