Principal Engineer, Commercial Architect

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural direction for the commercial application portfolio across business units, including:
  • Architecture for both custom-built applications and technology platforms
  • Support software selection decisions
  • Define architecture patterns
  • Ensure architecture achieves information security requirements
  • Work alongside product owners and engineering teams as an active, embedded partner in delivery
• Bring working knowledge of retail and consumer packaged goods business processes, including:
  • Experience in technology and processes such as sales/customer relationship management, category management, retail execution, and field workforce management
  • Build credibility as a technology advisor to business stakeholders based on industry operational reality
  • Advise on building shared capability, reusability, and user experience within commercial applications
• Design the end-to-end data flows between commercial systems and the data and analytics/AI platform, including:
  • Define flows of commercial operational data for analytics and management reporting and surfacing analytics data into commercial applications for field team use
  • Ensure commercial systems are designed to support emerging AI use cases
  • Define data architecture patterns that keep client and company data secure
  • Architect the integration of external industry data sources into commercial applications
• Plan and shape integrations between commercial and corporate systems, including:
  • Collaborate as peer with enterprise application teams
  • Jointly design patterns and delivery approaches
  • Ensure coherent data and integration plans
  • Shape plans for phases of application change between parallel implementation programs
• Operate as an active member of the enterprise architecture practice, including:
  • Collaborate with peer architects across commercial systems, enterprise systems, data/AI, and infrastructure/security
  • Build, advocate, and participate in shared governance, architecture standards, and ways of working
  • Contribute to keeping the practice coherent and relevant as the organization's technology agenda grows in complexity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 10-12 years experience in relevant field

Skills

• Enterprise and/or deep solution architecture for custom and technology platform applications
• Software selection, pattern definition, and product team partnership
• Integration architecture between custom/technology platform applications and enterprise resource planning systems
• Data design: data flows, data model design, master data management principles, and AI technology affinity
• Business domain expertise, such as retail, consumer packaged goods, field workforce management, services company service delivery, and revenue management

Environment & Physical Requirements

Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer, and may require the ability to lift up to 10 lbs.