Staff Domain Architect

Crocs•Broomfield, CO

38d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Crocs, Inc., every career offers a chance to make a real impact. No two journeys look the same. And that's exactly how we like it. Whether you're welcoming customers into our stores, collaborating with global teams at our headquarters, or keeping operations moving at our distribution centers, your impact is real and valued. At Crocs, Inc. you're not expected to fit a mold. You're encouraged to break it and create something better. Overview We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Domain Architect to drive architectural alignment and technical strategy across our critical Product & Planning technology ecosystem. This role requires deep expertise in Product Design, Product Development, Product Management, Merchandising, and Planning, with a primary focus on ensuring efficient and effective integration between these domains and other enterprise systems. You will be responsible for developing integration blueprints, aligning technical standards, and ensuring that our services are decoupled, scalable, and operate in harmony to support our global retail operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field.
8+ years of progressive experience in architecting solutions for Product & Planning systems, with significant time spent defining solutions for enterprise systems.
Proven track record of influencing complex architectural decisions through collaboration with senior business partners and peer architects.
Strong understanding of architectural principles (i.e., Domain-Driven Design concepts, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
Expertise in establishing cross-functionally aligned target architectures within and across functional domains.
Possesses deep functional and technical knowledge of Product Development, Product Management, Merchandising, and Planning business processes and capabilities, along with experience implementing technology solutions for these areas such as Centric PLM for Product Management and o9 for Planning.
Experience with relational and NoSQL data stores and advanced data modeling techniques for Master Data (e.g., Product, Location, Time) and Transactional Data (e.g., Purchase Order, Sales Order, Inventory).

Responsibilities

Work collaboratively with Business teams to understand core business processes, jointly solution process/technical designs that address business needs, and translate requirement needs directly into architectural improvements and technical solutions.
Partner closely with Technical Product Owners to define technical feature requirements, prioritize work, and ensure that delivery roadmaps align with the long-term architectural vision for stability, security, and scalability.
Develop relationships with Business teams, Technical Product teams, and Leadership to develop detailed, platform-level technical designs that guide multiple Technical Product and Engineering teams in implementation.
Establish and define clear domain boundaries and ownership across Product, Merchandising, and Planning interfaces with adjacent Domains.
Collaborate with Architects in adjacent Domains (e.g., Commercial / Digital, Finance, Distribution & Logistics, Data Platform) to ensure end-to-end consistency, align on shared service contracts, and communicate and resolve domain boundary changes.
Proactively identify architectural drift, technical debt, and scalability risks at the domain boundaries, leading teams in planning and executing remediation strategies.
Research, evaluate, and recommend new architectural patterns, tools, and platforms (SaaS, PaaS, Open Source) to modernize core Product & Planning capabilities.
Proactively document and share architectural best practices, patterns, and design decisions to elevate the technical understanding of cross-functional teams.
Architect the solutions governing data (e.g., Product Master Data) generated within the Product & Planning domains to ensure a single, authoritative source of truth is available to adjacent domains.

Benefits

This position is eligible to participate in a company incentive program.
This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.

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