Domain Architect - Market-Facing Digital

Owens Corning•Toledo, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Domain Architect – Market-Facing Digital provides architecture design and technical advisory leadership for Owens Corning’s Digital Innovation market-facing platforms, including its web estate, customer and indirect portals, and identity and commerce integrations. Under the direction of the Senior Domain Architect, the role handles medium- to high-complexity architecture work, develops options and recommendations, drafts Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), and engages product owner and business technology partner organizations on architecture questions. The position is an individual contributor role and may lead a small team of up to three FTEs. The architect leads selected architecture efforts from problem framing through options and trade-offs, cost and risk assessment, a recommended path, and a draft ADR. The role supports web estate and identity modernization, maintains architecture blueprints and artifacts, participates in digital working groups, and partners with product owners, peer architects, delivery teams, and business stakeholders. It also advises on architectural patterns and standards, identifies technical risks and scalability gaps, and coaches developers and developer leads.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or direct relevant work experience.
7–10+ years of progressive software development and architecture experience, including increasing responsibility for technical leadership and complex solution design.
Demonstrated ability to produce decision-ready recommendations and work effectively when final decision authority rests with another leader.
Experience with architecture governance, including ADRs, review boards, and standards.
Proven experience designing architecture for enterprise customer-facing web platforms.
Deep, proven track record in scalable, secure application architectures, integration patterns, and domain-driven design.
Strong working experience with composable or headless CMS, React and Next.js front ends, and shared design systems.
Strong experience with customer identity platforms such as Auth0 or equivalent, OAuth and OIDC, REST APIs, and event-driven integration; working knowledge of MDM/PIM data flows.
Working knowledge of GCP and AWS, containers, and CI/CD with Azure DevOps and Terraform, at a level sufficient to review and challenge designs.
Working knowledge of secure-by-design practices aligned to ISO 27001.
Ability to assess architectural trade-offs, performance, cost, and security risk.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing clear options papers and ADRs.
Ability to influence decision makers and present to technical and non-technical audiences.
Demonstrated judgment in making architecture decisions within established authority and identifying matters requiring broader review or escalation.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 10%.

Responsibilities

Build relationships across GIS, product owner organizations, business technology partners, peer architects, and internal and external stakeholders, keeping architecture engagement aligned with business priorities.
Understand business and market-facing channel strategies and translate them into architecture options and functional strategies.
Ensure market-facing portfolio architecture aligns with reference architectures, published ADRs, and enterprise standards.
Lead delegated architecture efforts from problem framing through options and trade-offs, cost and risk assessment, recommendations, and draft ADRs.
Present written recommendations and commentary on market-facing topics to the Digital Innovation Architecture Board.
Lead architecture work for web estate and identity modernization, translating the roadmap into design direction, options, and draft ADRs, and partnering with delivery teams through execution.
Use business stakeholder requirements to inform technical designs and decisions.
Partner with Product Owners and/or Senior Domain Architects to present design decisions to non-technical business stakeholders.
Maintain market-facing domain blueprints and architecture artifacts in LeanIX and documentation tools.
Represent architecture in digital working groups.
Escalate decisions outside the role’s authority, including new standards, deviations from standards, and budget, timeline, or vendor commitments.
Influence Product, UX, QA, and Security through recommendations and shared artifacts.
Identify and escalate systemic technical risks, technical debt, and scalability gaps in market-facing platforms.
Advocate adherence to architectural patterns, ADRs, and practice standards.
Lead or participate in special projects supporting long-term business or organizational goals, and identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness, value, and perception of the function.
Coach developers and developer leads on patterns and design through design reviews and pairing.
Partner with team leaders to identify opportunities to strengthen architecture skills and practices.
Model collaborative and inclusive behavior aligned with OC performance frameworks.
Invest in personal growth and development through self-learning.