Enterprise Integration Architect

Although we are an apparel and footwear focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear's Digital Technology (CDT) teams enable an IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.

The Enterprise Integration Architecture team is at the heart of blueprinting the digital transformation of Columbia Sportswear, Mountain Hardware, Sorel, and prAna brands. We serve our business and technical partners through strategic integrated planning and end-to-end solutions to accelerate feature delivery for critical initiatives.

As a Principal Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be responsible for designing and evolving Columbia Sportswear's integration and data movement architecture across enterprise platforms. You will work closely with engineering teams, product leaders, and other architects to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective integrations that support critical business capabilities across Supply Chain, Planning, Product Creation, and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) domains for our global brands.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for discovering and documenting opportunities for growth and efficiency, adopt a continuous learning environment, and provide strategic advantage through innovative solutions, storytelling, building collaborative and inclusive partnerships, and transitional architectures.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Own integration architecture patterns including APIs, events, and data flows aligned to canonical domain models
• Design end-to-end integration solutions balancing scalability, resiliency, cost, and delivery timelines
• Ensure solution designs adhere to enterprise architecture principles and platform standards
• Scale organization's data & integration literacy through the modeling and design of enterprise services and APIs, adhering to canonical domain models
• Engage business partners effectively to understand objectives, constraints, and outcomes, translating business needs into pragmatic integration and data architecture solutions
• Partner with engineering leaders to shape architectural plans aligned to product roadmaps
• Provide design guidance, design reviews, and hands-on problem solving during delivery
• Advocate best practices for API design, eventing, and integration reliability
• Identify opportunities to simplify and modernize integration platforms
• Mentor and upskill teams on integration and data architecture patterns
• Engage with vendors to ensure solutions align with Columbia standards

• A thought leader that is consultative in their approach
• An influencer that can drive common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams
• Passionate about cloud platform and solutions
• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff
• A creative strategic thinker with the ability to solve complex problems; able to exercise independent judgment in a highly complex global environment using leading-edge technology and/or integrating diverse systems
• Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, negotiating and marketing skills to work with users, senior management, and external personnel on significant matters, often requiring coordinated activity across functional and organizational lines, * Bachelor's degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years increasingly responsible professional experience in technology-related field
• Demonstrated domain experience across Supply Chain, Planning, Product Creation, and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) business capabilities, supporting enterprise-scale platforms and integrations
• 5+ years in technology architect or engineering leadership roles providing design leadership to technical, business, & cross-functional initiatives
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale applications supporting critical product creation, supply chain, Direct To Consumer and corporate technology capabilities
• Demonstrated experience designing, delivering, and operating enterprise integrations across their full lifecycle (design, build, deployment, and ongoing operations)
• Experience with event-driven architecture, async messaging, or streaming
• Familiarity with leading enterprise cloud/virtual architectures in AWS or Microsoft Azure
• Highly skilled at creating compelling architecture presentations covering enterprise scale vendor packaged applications, native cloud-based applications (custom or vendor managed), services and other applications
• Demonstrated influencing leadership skills expressed through teamwork, facilitation, active listening, as well as multi-modal communication (written, visualization, and verbal) with customers
• Strong team orientation and ability to thrive on virtual, international, cross-functional teams
• Experienced in facilitating meetings with multiple customers and technical staff, including building consensus, defining key decisions and solution options, and mediating compromises when necessary
• A passion for data-driven decision making supported through strong analytic skills, internal due diligence, market analysis, structuring hypotheses, and development of synthesized findings/recommendations

At Columbia, we are as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we are proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground. Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: "It's perfect. Now make it better." As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving. We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest. And we believe in you., Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.