IT Architect - Digital Commerce

Ulta Beauty; Bolingbrook (IL); On-site; USD 182,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health, dental, vision, life insurance

Job summary

Ulta Beauty is seeking an IT Architect for Digital Commerce to lead design and implementation of scalable web and backend systems. The role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams, ensuring secure authentication, and enabling seamless API integrations for web and mobile experiences.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience with NodeJS micro-services, JS frameworks, testing tools, and DevOps practices. Telecommuting up to 100% is supported from Bolingbrook, IL area and beyond.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), or related.
• Five years in development experience with Web/UI techs.
• Experience with scalable NodeJS micro-services and multiple JS frameworks.
• Security and authentication best practices (OAuth/SAML).

Responsibilities

• Review, install, and test system software updates and tailor software.
• Design complex systems and ensure integration across technologies.
• Lead portfolio management with governance and reporting.
• Analyze business processes and define requirements for improvements.
• Develop information management policies and support regulatory registrations and communications.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement and drive resolution strategies.
• Support CI/CD and DevOps integration; optimize performance issues.
• Collaborate with API teams for web/mobile services.

Skills

Web/UI technologies

NodeJS microservices

JavaScript frameworks

Security: OAuth/SAML

Browser extension development

CI/CD

API integration

Java

Performance optimization

Frontend-backend collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

NodeJS

Mocha/Jasmine/JUnit

Selenium/Nightwatch/Protractor

Job description

Overview

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are. We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

Company

Ulta Beauty Credit Services Corporation

Location

1000 Remington Blvd., Suite 120, Bolingbrook, IL 60440

Title

IT Architect - Digital Commerce

Hours

Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Duties

• System Software: Review, evaluate, install, and test system software updates. Tailor system software to maximize hardware functionality. Investigate, coordinate, and resolve system service issues. Prepare and maintain operational documentation and advise on effective use of system software.
• Systems Design: Design and review complex systems using appropriate standards, methods, and tools. Ensure effective integration of multiple systems and technologies. Evaluate major design options, conduct impact analysis, and manage associated risks. Balance functional, performance, security, service quality, and system management requirements. Recommend architectures, structures, and tools aligned with business needs, target environments, and existing systems. Produce technical visualizations for stakeholder approval and development execution.
• Portfolio Management: Lead project managers and technical leads in adherence to portfolio management processes, timelines, and governance standards. Produce portfolio status and governance reports and recommend improvements to portfolio frameworks.
• Business Process Improvement: Analyze business processes, identify alternative solutions, assess feasibility, and recommend improvements. Support change initiatives by defining requirements for implementing process improvements.
• Information Management: Develop and maintain policies, standards, and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable legislation. Assess internal and external information assets to support business decision-making and system enhancements. Provide expert guidance on information management, collaborative working practices, and information-related risk. Maintain inventories of regulated information assets and manage required regulatory registrations and notifications.
• Relationship Management: Assess stakeholder communication needs and develop engagement and communication plans. Act as a primary point of contact, facilitate discussions between stakeholders, manage issues and complaints, and drive resolution strategies.
• Technology Architecture & Development Support: Research, evaluate, select, and implement frontend and middleware (backend-for-frontend) technology stacks, frameworks, and tooling, including automated quality control, packaging, deployment, and scaffolding. Design systems for scalability, resiliency, extensibility, usability, consistency, and security.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with business teams during project discovery to guide technically feasible solutions aligned with timelines and device requirements. Collaborate with system architects on integration strategies and with API teams to design services optimized for web and mobile applications.
• Engineering Enablement: Establish initial project structures to enable efficient feature development. Collaborate with DevOps teams to support CI/CD integration. Work with performance teams to identify and remediate codebase performance issues. Partner with project leads to define design solutions and patterns implemented by development teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), or related.
• Five (5) years in any occupation with development experience, or related.
• Five (5) years in any occupation with development experience, or related must include: Five (5) years of experience on Web and UI technologies and developing successful products. Experience must also include: Scalable NodeJS based micro-services with orchestration; Experience in at least one JavaScript framework such as Backbone, Ember or Angular or React JS; SCSS, CSS3, and HTML5; Experience debugging JavaScript and CSS; Modern, mobile, and legacy browsers (responsive UI); Experience with at least one unit testing tool such as Mocha, Jasmine, or Junit and at least one end-to-end testing tool such as Selenium, Nightwatch or Protractor; Integrated web applications with APIs, and authentication and authorization (basic, OAuth, or SAML); Web application security practices (XSS/clickjacking); Experience developing browser extensions or plugins to enable additional functionality on the browser and to integrate with native OS/platforms; and Experience with JAVA and its usage in modern web application development.

Telecommuting Employee

Reports to company headquarters in Bolingbrook, IL. Can work remotely or telecommute up to 100%.

Salary

SALARY: $181,792 - $182,792 per year

The pay range for this position is $181,792.00 - $182,192.00 / Year with the opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company’s bonus plan. Exact pay will be based on factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, level, shift, geographic location, and business and organizational needs.

Benefits

• Ulta offers a standard benefits package. See a full list of benefits here: https://careers.ulta.com/careers/about-us/benefits-and-career-development
• Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits.
• Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• For additional information concerning our benefits, visit our Benefits and Career Development page: https://learn.bswift.com/ulta

About

At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.