Enterprise Architect - Central Garden & Pet

Polluxa, Inc.; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking a senior Enterprise Architect to define and guide the platform foundation and architecture across data, analytics, AI, and digital transformation.

This role requires a senior, influence-driven leader who can connect decisions across domains and drive a cohesive, cost‑effective technology ecosystem. You will partner with tech and business leaders to develop the architecture vision, establish practical standards, and guide teams through a multi-brand environment toward

Qualifications

• Senior-level enterprise architect with broad scope across business and technology domains.
• Ability to translate business strategy into executable architecture roadmaps and ROI.
• Experience in multi-brand, multi-business-unit environments and modern reference models.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture strategy across domains, aligning capabilities, data/AI platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
• Lead architecture evolution and modernization, rationalize portfolios, and adopt API-first, event-driven patterns.
• Architect data strategy (data mesh/fabric) with unified ontologies to power AI use cases.
• Design architectures for autonomous AI agents and establish standards and best practices.
• Establish hybrid and multi-cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) with on-prem and SaaS/PaaS.
• Drive cross-domain standards spanning apps, integration, data/AI, security, and infrastructure.
• Translate business strategy into executable roadmaps with clear ROI and milestones.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

Data/AI strategy

API-first design

Event-driven architecture

Governance & portfolio

Stakeholder influence

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Description

The Enterprise Architect defines and guides the platform foundation and architecture that accelerate Central’s data, analytics, AI, and digital transformation. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a seasoned enterprise architect who can hold the whole enterprise picture in view - connecting decisions across domains, seeing where the roadmap leads, and understanding the downstream implications of the choices we make today. You bring deep architecture fundamentals like governance, integration, portfolio discipline, cost-effectiveness and treat AI as the top priority woven through every decision rather than a separate workstream.

You’ll partner with technology and business leaders across the enterprise to develop the enterprise architecture vision and strategy, establish practical standards, and guide teams toward a cohesive, cost-effective technology ecosystem. In a multi-brand, multi-business-unit environment, you’ll design architecture that is adaptable, reusable, and ready to absorb acquisitions or carve out divestitures with minimal disruption. Success here is measured less by authority than by influence - the clarity of your thinking and the strength of your partnerships across a matrixed organization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define enterprise architecture strategy across business and technology domains, aligning business capabilities, application landscape, data/AI platforms, and cloud infrastructure into a cohesive, outcome-driven architecture.
• Lead application and platform architecture evolution, driving modernization of legacy systems, rationalization of the application portfolio, and adoption of scalable, API-first and event-driven integration patterns.
• Architect a modern enterprise data strategy (data mesh / data fabric), enriched with a context layer, enterprise knowledge graphs, and shared ontologies, that makes cross-brand data clean, unified, semantically connected, and ready to power AI use cases.
• Designing comprehensive system architectures for vertical Agentic AI applications, establishing technical standards, patterns, and best practices for autonomous agents.
• Establish balanced hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, aligning cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS/PaaS solutions, and on-prem environments to enable agility, resilience, and cost-effective scale.
• Drive cross-domain architecture standards and reference models spanning applications, integration, data/AI, security, and infrastructure - ensuring consistency while enabling flexibility for business innovation.
• Translate business strategy into executable architecture roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives across business capability gaps, application modernization, and platform investments with clear ROI and measurable outcomes.