Staff Enterprise Architect (Remote)

• Influence future enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps in alignment with business priorities and enterprise strategy
• Assess emerging technologies and platform options for Kohl’s initiatives, evaluating business value, technical fit, risks, and adoption considerations
• Lead architectural direction for Business, Foundational, and Platform initiatives spanning multiple applications, integrations, and teams
• Guide solution design and implementation across complex enterprise environments, balancing business value, security, reliability, scalability, and cost
• Develop and maintain current-state and target-state architectures and modernization roadmaps for assigned domains and capabilities
• Provide architectural expertise, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and resolve tradeoffs in partnership with fellow enterprise architects and teams
• Contribute to architectural and technical standards and reference patterns, guiding adoption through architecture reviews and implementation guidance
• Promote consistent architectural practices through cross-team collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mentoring engineers and technical leads

Addendum

Staff Enterprise Architect - Digital and Marketing

• Drive architectural strategy for digital channels, including kohls.com and native iOS and Android applications, aligning platform evolution with business priorities and customer-experience goals
• Guide marketing technology architecture for personalized engagement, content delivery, and measurement
• Lead integration strategies across mobile, web, marketing, and enterprise platforms to enable consistent omnichannel experiences and reliable customer data flows, incorporating customer consent and privacy requirements
• Establish initial system boundaries, and key assumptions during planning with fellow enterprise architects and engineering leaders
• Experience architecting marketing technology capabilities, including CMS (Content Management System) / DAM (Digital Asset Management), CDP (Customer Data Platform), personalization, experimentation, and analytics
• Experience architecting systems for digital discoverability, including content rendering, structured data, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
• Experience designing and delivering cloud-native, customer-facing platforms, event-driven architecture, and containerized services
• Experience architecting systems optimized for digital discoverability, content rendering, structured data, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
• Understanding of emerging AI-enabled commerce patterns, agentic commerce, conversational experiences, and agent-interaction technologies such as WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol)

• 6+ years of experience in a technology-related field, including prior lead experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Advanced knowledge of systems design and experience architecting and implementing large-scale enterprise systems
• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to translate business priorities into target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, and actionable recommendations for teams
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, resolve architectural tradeoffs, and communicate complex technical decisions to business and executive audiences

Preferred

• Advanced degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Understanding of Kohl’s Technology capabilities
• Experience modernizing complex application ecosystems, including platform consolidation, incremental migration, and reduction of technical debt