Lead Enterprise Architect - Engineering REMOTE

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Lead, Enterprise Architect - Engineering (REMOTE)

Date: Apr 28, 2022

Location: Remote, US

Company: Under Armour

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Position Summary

This position plays a senior enterprise architect role within their domain – Application Engineering focused on web and mobile applications supporting Under Armour’s Omnichannel consumer journey.

Strategy: This position will work closely with the IT teams and their business partners to define IT strategy and roadmaps. These roadmaps will be aligned to business strategy, and clearly define when new capabilities can be introduced.

Architecture: This position will understand the desired future state technical architecture and will help to define the approach to closing gaps to reach it in order to scale the business and/or reduce costs.

Governance: This position will help to enforce our architecture principles in order to reduce complexity and improve business process throughout organization.

Communication: This position will be a consistent voice ensuring that enterprise architecture team's purpose and operating model are clearly understood by their partners across the organization.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities


Assisting in developing the enterprise architecture program within their domain, as well as promoting and communicating purpose to our partners.
Leveraging their technical expertise to recommend when, and how technology could, or should impact timing, or sequencing of roadmaps.
Providing expert input into the design related to strategic initiatives to ensure efficiency, and scalability. This will focus on the technology being used, and approaches to development.
Participating in the evaluation, selection, and governance of new technology additions, or major changes in use. Create, maintain, and oversee the appropriate artifact libraries required for documentation and consistency.
Identifying opportunities to reduce, or prevent technology spend and complexity.
Identifying opportunities where new technology could provide meaningful benefit to the organization whether consumer facing, or for internal operational benefit.
Supports alignment across IT Leadership regarding the IT Principles that will guide our technology decisions and documenting them for all teams to easily access.


Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)


Communications, both verbal and written
Group session facilitation
Team leadership
Marketing (“selling” the results of architectural approaches through presentations and other interactions)
Analysis and design
Modeling and graphical representations and abstractions
Management (prioritization, trade-off analysis, psychology, etc.).


Education And / Or Experience


Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required
5 years of IT experience
3 years of direct technology support and design experience.
3 years of development/administrator and/or business analysis experience.
Experience solving complex business challenges by identifying and leveraging technology as part of the solution.
Experience / Working Knowledge of the following:
Cloud Platforms like AWS and its commonly used services (RDS, SQS, Elasticache, etc.)
Commerce Platforms like Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC)
Mobile platforms like iOS and Android
Modern web development technologies like Python, Ruby, Go, Javascript, React, CSS, HTML, GraphQL, Objective-C, Swift, Node.js, Typescript
Frameworks like React, Vue, Terraform, SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
CI/CD solutions like Jenkins, CircleCI, Gitlab, Github Actions, or Spinnaker
Container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
Integrations via APIs and 3rd Party systems integrations (SOAP/REST)
High volume Message Queues like Kafka
Linux or Unix-based infrastructure in a cloud environment
Content Management Systems (ex: CoreMedia, Magnolia, Contentful, AEM)
Enterprise Architecture Platforms like LeanIX and Ardoq


Other Requirements


Location: Flexible
Return To Work Designation: Fully Remote
Travel: Occasional Travel to UA offices and/or conferences should be expected.
Licenses/Certifications:
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Certification, or similar desired.


Relocation


No Relocation Provided


At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

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