Senior Information Architect

Arc'Teryx

5d • Remote

About The Position

ARC’TERYX is growing and seeking a Senior Information Architect to advance its enterprise architecture practice. This role will bring an information architecture lens to end-to-end solutions and systems strategy, serving the global business. The ideal candidate views information as dynamic and communicative between business domains and systems. This role can be hired remotely within the United States and Canada, with a requirement to align with Pacific time zone hours.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years in engineering roles of increasing responsibility and sophistication, including prior experience as an enterprise or information architect.
• Experience designing and implementing IT foundational capabilities in areas such as application integration, identity and access management, APIs and event schemas, and shared platform design and operation.
• Direct design and demonstrated experience in application domains such as supply-chain, eCommerce, marketing technology, warehousing/logistics, product lifecycle management and sustainability.
• Demonstrated experience with architecture management tools and process.
• Experience discovering needs and synthesizing viable architecture plans that solve cross-domain requirements and end-to-end flows.
• Experience assessing current systems and flows as a springboard to informing and contributing to project solution and strategy.
• Experience with option synthesis with trade-offs, required policies, risks, and best-fit recommendation.
• Demonstrated skill and desire to guide and inspire IT engineering best practice and provide skills mentorship and career path guidance to members of the engineering guild.
• Strong communication skills and ability to inspire teams and stakeholders with a clear vision and innovative, logical plan of action.
• Direct retail or adjacent domain experience at organization(s) providing premium products and user experiences aligned with brand promise.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degrees or certifications in technology leadership, cloud computing, or information architecture (highly desirable).
• Demonstrated experience with premium consumer digital experience with global deployment at scale highly desirable.
• Direct experience with LeanIX desirable.

Responsibilities

• Creating scoped conceptual and logical architectures for product leaders with trade-offs, policy adherence, risk advisement, and alignment with group and global platform strategy.
• Documenting and developing business domain information structures to ensure accessibility and usability in new projects and ongoing operations.
• Designing and refining interface definitions and data exchange schemas, aligning related application designs, roadmaps, and tool choices to ensure superior business event and business service consumption and leverage.
• Enhancing the Data Platform and informing physical data architecture from conceptual and logical information architecture expressing Arc’teryx end-to-end business domains and process flow.
• Providing subject-matter expertise and ownership to build the architecture modeling practice using LeanIX tools, with a focus on relating business data models to applications and business capability management.
• Leading the design and implementation of AI-empowered information solutions, ensuring seamless integration of advanced data models, data accessibility, and premium user experience.
• Teaming with business stewards, D&A team, and Enterprise Data Management to evangelize and prioritize MDM and DQ efforts in key domain areas of product, customer, and supply chain.
• Leading the development of information strategies that drive premium consumer engagement across digital touchpoints with consistency in global regions.
• Participating and owning technology efforts to leverage the global technology platform in Asia-Pacific and other expanding markets.

Benefits

• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, gender-affirming care and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• RRSP matching and eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable.
• Paid time off, wellness time, and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore).
• Parental leave top-up and a nesting period for new parents.
• Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill-building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear).

What This Job Offers

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