Enterprise Architect, Retail

Role: Enterprise Architect, Retail
Location: San Francisco, CA (onsite - once in a week)
Type: 12+ Month/Contract

The Opportunity:
As an Enterprise Architect in Retail, you will work directly with Retail Partners to lead the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap to modernize our retail stores. You will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and architecture decisions across a wide range of retail systems. You'll be responsible for developing cutting-edge solutions that redefine the retail experience and position Sephora as an industry leader. You will play a crucial role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring that our retail systems are designed and developed in alignment with industry best practices and cutting-edge architectural principles. The ideal candidate should possess an in-depth understanding of software architecture, architecture patterns, microservices, cloud-based architectures, and building distributed applications.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Enterprise Architect working with technology, product and business leaders to work on strategic goals.
• Lead and guide the technology architecture team in defining and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient architecture solutions for various retail systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust architectural designs.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, and apply them to enhance the company's technology landscape.
• Develop comprehensive and detailed architectural blueprints for retail systems, including client-telling, POS, data management, reporting, etc.
• Champion the use of microservices and cloud-based architectures to create scalable, flexible, and cost-effective omni-channel solutions.
• Drive the development of distributed applications, ensuring seamless integration between different retail systems.
• Build a strategy for in-store and cloud development of applications with data synchronization, high availability in mind.
• Lead architecture in re-defining and modernizing the Retail & Payments Architecture practice which includes championing best architecture practices and modernization of architecture in the cloud and edge.
• Leverage your expertise in Oracle X-Store Suite to design, implement, and maintain retail technology solutions that streamline operations, enhance customer experience, and drive business growth.
• Bring expertise in designing and building next generation cutting POS systems including tablet and mobile POS.
• Build a strategy for in-store hardware, network and system architecture to support the POS, need for loss prevention, AI/ML based systems, augmented reality for beauty products.
• Develop strategy to optimize store operations which would also include in-store services and fulfillment from store.
• Apply expertise in event-based programming and architecture to design real-time, event-driven systems for retail processes and workflows.
• Provide guidance to support different ways for customer no-touch checkout, payment methods like tap to pay.
• Lead architecture in the maturing the process alignment internal and external partners such as other portfolios, Infosec, Enterprise Architecture and vendor partners
• Collaborate with the architecture community on architectural topics for communicating and publishing out to the broader Tech & Engineering teams
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product management, business stakeholders, and IT operations, to ensure alignment of technology solutions with business needs.
• Present technical concepts and solutions in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build collaborative partnerships with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, technical leads, and key individuals within other functional groups.
• Demonstrate Sephora's values in Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or in a similar leadership role within the retail domain.
• Extensive knowledge of software architecture, architecture patterns, microservices, and cloud-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience in designing and building distributed applications.
• 10+ years of experience in the full software development.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in designing and architecting retail, omni-channel distributed applications.
• Hands-on experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Essential hands-on experience working with Oracle X-Store POS products, tablet or mobile POS.
• Analytical approach to problem-solving with a track record of developing innovative solutions for complex technical challenges.
• Experience with store operations and omni-channel retail systems dealing with cross channel items, inventory, pricing, promos, orders, returns, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Passion for staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in the retail and software engineering domains.
• Highly self-motivated individual who is independent, efficient, and able to handle several projects with a solid sense of setting priorities.