Domain Architect (Technology Integration Management Office)

DICK'S Sporting Goods

27d • $114,300 - $190,500

About The Position

The Domain Architect – TIMO is responsible for creating, governing, and evolving target-state architecture models and integration designs that enable enterprise integration across DICK’S Sporting Goods and Foot Locker. The role interprets, applies, and maintains technology architecture and its component models to guide business transformation initiatives, balancing value, cost, speed, and risk.

Operating within the Technology Integration Management Office (TIMO), the Domain Architect establishes and educates the organization on architectural processes and standards, applying architecture standards and blueprint priorities across scoping, discovery, design, and transition phases. The role leads and develops Solution Architects embedded within Business Capability Enablement teams, promoting consistent architectural practices and quality across ERP, Supply Chain, Digital, Data, and HCM domains.

The role requires strong business and technology acumen, the ability to influence executive, business, and technical stakeholders, and sound judgment in balancing competing priorities across complex, cross-functional integration initiatives. The Domain Architect helps realize the enterprise integration blueprint and ensures architectural decisions support long-term value realization. Ideal candidates have experience in complex, consumer-facing environments such as retail or eCommerce, or similarly scaled enterprises.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 10–15 years of total experience.
• Experience as a domain or enterprise architect leading large-scale technology transformation or integration programs, such as mergers and acquisitions or retail eCommerce platforms.
• Experience designing solutions across enterprise platforms, including ERP, IMS, OMS, Data, and Digital.
• Experience influencing executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing or leading architecture teams or practices.

Nice To Haves

• Retail experience.
• Experience supporting complex, consumer-facing environments such as retail, eCommerce, or similarly scaled enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain target-state architecture blueprints across business processes, data, applications, and platforms.
• Model and assess current-state architectures and define transition states aligned to integration priorities.
• Recommend and participate in developing integration patterns, architecture standards, and design guardrails.
• Research and evaluate technology solutions to meet business capability and integration requirements.
• Advise leadership on architecture strategies, methodologies, and long-term design direction.
• Align architecture with enterprise strategy, product roadmaps, and integration blueprint objectives.
• Identify opportunities for proof-of-concepts and participate in validating new architectural approaches.
• Define architecture artifacts and documentation standards to support consistency and governance.
• Participate in cross-functional design sessions and working teams for integration initiatives.
• Develop solution architectures, models, and transition plans to support discovery and design phases.
• Identify implementation risks and assess impacts to business operations, timelines, and outcomes.
• Ensure architected solutions are implemented in accordance with established standards and principles.
• Analyze the impact of systems, data, and process changes on enterprise operations and performance.
• Partner with product, engineering, and portfolio teams to translate architecture into executable plans.
• Lead activities that maintain integration architecture and design consistency across initiatives.
• Review solution designs for conformance with architecture standards, policies, and roadmaps.
• Provide cross-program architectural governance and identify risks, duplications, or misalignment.
• Recommend architecture standards, tools, and methodologies to strengthen governance processes.
• Support escalation and decision-making for complex or high-risk architectural challenges.
• Ensure alignment across ERP, Supply Chain, Digital, Data, and HCM domains to avoid fragmentation.
• Lead, coach, and develop Solution Architects embedded in Business Capability Enablement teams.
• Share best practices, lessons learned, and evolving architectural standards across the organization.
• Promote architecture principles and benefits to build organizational understanding and alignment.
• Allocate architectural resources in alignment with portfolio priorities and sequencing.
• Provide guidance on architecture processes, governance, and quality expectations.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package that could include incentive, equity, and benefits.
• Generous suite of benefits.
• Compliance with all state paid leave requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior