Senior Enterprise Architect — Cloud & Integration

ColumbiaSportswear; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

EAP access

Wellness benefits

Employee discounts

Generous leave

Job summary

Columbia Sportswear Company headquartered near Portland, Oregon, seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead the blueprinting of digital transformation across its brands. The role emphasizes designing scalable, integrated solutions and guiding architecture decisions with business leaders and engineering teams.

You will craft future integration architecture, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and promote best practices, data-driven decision making, and cost-optimized solutions in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years increasingly responsible professional experience in technology-related field.
• 5+ years in technology architect or engineering leadership roles providing design leadership to technical, business, & cross-functional initiatives.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale applications supporting critical product creation, supply chain and corporate technology capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical recommendations and build an architectural plan aligned with product roadmaps and Columbia's strategic vision.
• Balance tactical timelines, cost, and risks.
• Strengthen architecture literacy through shared principles, reusable patterns, architecture guidance, and consistent service and API design practices.
• Advocate and drive adoption of architectural and engineering best practices and standards at Columbia.
• Architecture liaison for business and technical teams; provide mentoring and training across the organization.
• Monitor IT trends to identify new capabilities for a modern enterprise integration platform.
• Develop leading-edge, connected solutions with other architects and engineering to resolve IT architectural issues and optimize cost savings.
• Ensure solid technical architecture aligned with company's architecture principles in engineering teams.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud platforms

AWS/Azure

API design

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

C#

Java

NodeJS

Job description

Columbia Sportswear Company headquartered near Portland, Oregon, seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead the blueprinting of digital transformation across its brands. The role emphasizes designing scalable, integrated solutions and guiding architecture decisions with business leaders and engineering teams.

You will craft future integration architecture, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and promote best practices, data-driven decision making, and cost-optimized solutions in a