Manager, Technology Architecture

Australia-Employment; Sugar Land (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Annual bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Professional development

Career growth

Job summary

Jobot is seeking an experienced Manager, Technology Architecture in Sugar Land, TX to lead enterprise architecture initiatives aligned with a company-wide transformation. You’ll guide roadmaps, governance, and standards across digital commerce, customer engagement, and supply chain domains.

The role requires 7+ years in architecture leadership, cloud experience, and strong business-value communication. Relocation assistance is provided, with a competitive base salary and annual bonus opportunity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in enterprise architecture or senior technical leadership.
• 2+ years of people leadership experience.
• Experience shaping architecture across business, application, integration, and platform domains.
• Experience developing architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, target-state models, principles, standards, and governance practices.
• Ability to create and apply business-architecture artifacts such as capability maps and value streams.
• Experience with cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) at enterprise scale.
• Strong executive communication skills translating tech decisions into business value.

Responsibilities

• Define and advance a long-term enterprise architecture vision aligned with transformation priorities.
• Promote architecture standards, reusable patterns, and governance across environments.
• Translate goals into capability maps, value streams, and actionable roadmaps.
• Provide architectural leadership across major domains like digital commerce and supply chain.

Skills

Executive communication

People leadership

Strategic thinking

Systems thinking

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

Enterprise architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

TOGAF certification

Graduate degree

Tools

ARDOQ

BizzDesign

Abacus

Visio

Job description

Manager, Technology Architecture

$170000 - $185000 per year | Sugar Land, TX | On-site | Permanent

Step into a high-impact architecture leadership role where you’ll influence enterprise-wide transformation, shape the future of modern retail technology, and enjoy a comprehensive relocation package!

A bit about us:

We are a large-scale consumer enterprise with a strong physical and digital presence and a continued investment in modern technology. Our teams support a complex enterprise ecosystem spanning ecommerce, customer engagement, store operations, merchandising, supply chain, inventory, and fulfillment.

This is an exciting time to join as we advance a company-wide technology transformation focused on creating connected customer experiences, simplifying platforms, and building scalable solutions for the future. You’ll work alongside collaborative business and technology leaders in an environment where fresh ideas are welcomed, strategic thinking is valued, and your work can influence how the organization operates at scale.

Why join us?

• High-impact leadership role with visibility across business and technology teams
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-wide architecture strategy and major transformation initiatives
• Work across cutting-edge digital, omnichannel, customer, store, and supply-chain platforms
• Collaborative culture where strategic thinking, innovation, and fresh ideas are valued
• Comprehensive benefits, professional development opportunities, and long-term career growth
• Competitive base salary plus annual performance bonus
• Comprehensive relocation assistance to support a smooth transition

Job Details

We are seeking an experienced architecture leader to help define how business strategy translates into scalable, connected, and sustainable technology solutions. This position will help shape the organization’s long-term architecture vision while ensuring that current technology decisions support immediate business priorities. You will establish standards, guide target-state planning, advise senior leaders, and partner with architecture, product, engineering, and business teams throughout the transformation lifecycle.

The ideal candidate combines enterprise-level thinking with enough technical depth to evaluate designs, identify risk, and guide informed tradeoffs. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who can simplify complex environments, connect technology decisions to business outcomes, and influence teams without relying solely on formal authority.

What We’re Looking For:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, domain architecture, technology strategy, solution architecture, or senior technical leadership.
• 2+ years of people leadership or matrix leadership experience, including mentoring architects or senior technical professionals.
• Demonstrated success shaping architecture across business, application, integration, and platform domains.
• Experience developing architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, target-state models, principles, standards, and governance practices.
• Ability to create and apply business-architecture artifacts such as capability maps and value streams.
• Experience supporting complex cloud or hybrid technology environments at enterprise scale.
• Working knowledge of application architecture, integration patterns, digital platforms, data ecosystems, and cloud technologies.
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or a comparable cloud environment.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to explain complex technology decisions in terms of business value, risk, cost, and outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence across business, product, engineering, and technology teams.
• Strong analytical, strategic-thinking, and systems-thinking capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• TOGAF certification, formal architecture training, or a related graduate degree.
• Experience within a complex consumer-facing, multi-location, ecommerce, omnichannel, supply-chain, or retail-related environment.
• Knowledge of customer engagement, personalization, campaign management, MarTech, order management, fulfillment, merchandising, inventory, POS, or store platforms.
• Familiarity with architecture-modeling and visualization tools such as ARDOQ, BizzDesign, Abacus, Visio, or comparable platforms.
• Experience guiding large-scale modernization, platform consolidation, or enterprise transformation initiatives.

What You’ll Do:

• Help define and advance a long-term enterprise architecture vision aligned with business strategy and transformation priorities.
• Establish and promote architecture principles, standards, reusable patterns, and governance practices across application, integration, and platform environments.
• Translate business goals into capability maps, value streams, target-state models, and actionable technology roadmaps.
• Provide architectural leadership across one or more major domains, including digital commerce, customer engagement, - - MarTech, merchandising, supply chain, inventory, logistics, store systems, point of sale, or fulfillment.
• Partner with senior business, product, and technology leaders to evaluate investment priorities, architectural risks, sequencing decisions, and long-term business value.
• Identify opportunities to simplify fragmented technology landscapes, eliminate unnecessary duplication, strengthen interoperability, and reduce technical debt.
• Guide the design of scalable and resilient solutions that support connected customer experiences across digital and physical channels.
• Review proposed solutions and ensure alignment with enterprise standards, target-state direction, security expectations, and operational needs.
• Collaborate with solution architects, domain architects, engineers, product teams, application support, and delivery leaders to maintain architectural intent throughout execution.
• Evaluate emerging platforms and technologies based on business value, technical fit, scalability, risk, and total long-term impact.
• Participate in architecture review boards, steering committees, strategic-planning sessions, and executive-level discussions.
• Advise teams on architectural tradeoffs, integration approaches, platform decisions, and proven design practices.
• Support innovation initiatives, proofs of concept, and pilot programs designed to test new capabilities.
• Improve architecture maturity by strengthening documentation, decision frameworks, governance, and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor architects and senior technical professionals through direct, matrixed, or project-based leadership.

Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.