Enterprise Architect

Nebraska Furniture Mart Inc.; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 104,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Nebraska Furniture Mart Inc. is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architecture leader to align business strategy with technology direction across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, and security.

You will guide target-state direction, establish standards, and drive roadmaps with cross-functional teams. This role requires residency in NE, IA, KS, MO, or TX and on-site presence for the offer/first day.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in IT or related field.
• 10+ years of technology experience including enterprise architecture and cross-functional leadership.
• 7+ years architecture experience influencing complex enterprise solutions.
• Experience building and maturing enterprise architecture practices, standards, governance, and roadmaps.
• Broad knowledge across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, security, DevOps, and emerging tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of the enterprise architecture strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Collaborate with CIO, General Managers, and leaders to translate strategy into technology direction.
• Govern architecture standards, guardrails, and decision practices across delivery teams.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and cross-domain forums addressing security, data, and lifecycle considerations.
• Provide functional architecture leadership across solution architects within Technology Solutions and Technology Operations.
• Align roadmaps with business capabilities and resolve cross-domain architectural questions.
• Identify and prioritize enterprise transformation opportunities including cloud evolution and modernization.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Technology Strategy

TOGAF

Governance

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, a related field, or equivalent experience

Job description

Pay Range: $103,944 - 167,382 annually (based in experience and location)

Job Description: Your Piece of the Puzzle

Step into a highly visible role where you’ll shape the future of technology at NFM. As our Enterprise Architecture and a trusted advisor to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), you’ll connect business strategy with a clear, sustainable technology vision across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, security, and emerging technology. You’ll define target-state direction, establish practical standards and guardrails, and help ensure NFM’s technology investments work together as a cohesive enterprise ecosystem. Partnering with General Managers, business leaders, and solution architects across Technology Solutions and Technology Operations, you’ll align roadmaps, guide modernization, simplify complexity, and resolve decisions that span the organization. This is an opportunity to make an enterprise-wide impact through influence, facilitation, sound judgment, and clear communication—without responsibility for day-to-day delivery organizations. This position requires the candidate to reside in NE, IA, KS, MO, or TX. Final candidates will be required to come on-site prior to receiving an offer or on their first day of employment.

Job Duties: A Day in the Life

• Lead: Direct the continuous evolution of NFM's enterprise architecture strategy, target-state direction, principles, and multi-year architecture roadmap in alignment with business strategy and technology priorities
• Collaborate: Work with the CIO, General Managers, senior business leaders, and technology leaders to translate business strategy, strategic initiatives, and business capabilities into technology direction and architectural priorities
• Govern: Guide enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards, patterns, guardrails, and decision practices that promote consistency while allowing appropriate flexibility within delivery teams
• Facilitate: Lead architecture reviews and decision forums for significant technology initiatives, ensuring cross-domain impacts, enterprise standards, security, resiliency, data, integration, supportability, cost, and lifecycle considerations are addressed early
• Coordinate: Provide functional architecture leadership across solution architects assigned to the Technology Solutions and Technology Operations divisions, creating consistency in methods, expectations, documentation, and enterprise alignment
• Align: Collaborate with both General Managers and their solution architects to resolve cross-domain architecture questions, dependencies, ownership gaps, and design decisions that span organizational boundaries
• Modernize: Partner with the CIO and General Managers to identify and prioritize enterprise transformation opportunities, including legacy retirement, platform simplification, technical-debt reduction, integration improvement, cloud evolution, and technology lifecycle needs

Your work will directly impact our ability to help people create a lifestyle they love, for the people they love—because that’s what we love.

Qualifications: Can You Check These Boxes?

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, a related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of progressively responsible technology experience, including significant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or comparable cross-functional technology leadership
• 7+ years of architecture experience with demonstrated success designing and influencing complex enterprise solutions across multiple technology domains.
• Demonstrated experience building, maturing, or leading enterprise architecture practices, standards, governance, reference architecture, roadmaps, and technology decision processes
• Broad working knowledge across application architecture, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, identity, DevOps, reliability, and emerging technology concepts; deep specialization in every domain is not required.
• Demonstrated experience translating business strategy and capabilities into target-state architecture, technology roadmaps, modernization priorities, and investment recommendations
• Experience leading architecture reviews, workshops, complex design discussions, and technology evaluations involving multiple business and technical stakeholders
• Strong understanding of solution evaluation and build-versus-buy decisions, including business value, total cost, architecture, integration, security, supportability, vendor considerations, and long-term maintainability
• Experience influencing senior leaders and technical teams without relying on direct reporting authority; proven ability to build alignment across organizational boundaries and resolve competing perspectives
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language for senior and executive audiences
• Strong analytical thinking, systems thinking, judgment, negotiation, and problem-solving skills; ability to work effectively through ambiguity and make recommendations when information is incomplete
• Experience with architecture frameworks and methods such as TOGAF, capability-based planning, reference architecture, technology standards, or architecture decision records preferred; relevant architecture certifications are a plus
• Retail or other complex multi-location enterprise experience preferred
• Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record; ability to travel between NFM locations as business needs require
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the USA on a full-time basis. NFM will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
• Ability to work nights, weekends, early mornings, or provide leadership support outside normal business hours when significant business or technology needs require
• Pre-employment screening includes, but isn’t limited to, criminal background check

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