Senior Manager, Digital Experience Architecture

Ulta Beauty; Bolingbrook (IL); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ulta Beauty in Bolingbrook, IL seeks a Senior Manager of Solution Architecture to lead the technology strategy for customer-facing digital experiences across Web, Mobile, and the GraphQL layer. This hands-on leadership role balances strategic direction with architectural design and prototyping, guiding a team of architects and collaborating with product, UX, and business leaders.

The role emphasizes AI-native engineering, scalable platforms, and continuous improvement, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Experience designing and evolving modern digital experience platforms across Web and Mobile.
• Ability to build and guide architecture strategies that drive business outcomes.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with product, UX, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve target architecture for Ulta Beauty's Digital Experience Platform across Web, Mobile, GraphQL, and shared frontend capabilities.
• Partner with Product, Business, UX, and Engineering to align technology investments with business outcomes.
• Shape roadmaps and architectural strategies to support customer-facing experiences.
• Lead architecture governance with designs reviews and alignment across product teams.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and reusable patterns to boost velocity.
• Mentor architects through reviews, guidance, and continuous learning.
• Communicate strategy, risks, and investment recommendations to senior leadership.
• Foster documentation and engineering excellence through ADRs and reference architectures.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Technical Leadership

AI Engineering

Architecture Reviews

Cross-functional Leadership

GraphQL

Frontend Architecture

Mentoring

Tools

Amplience

CI/CD

Redis

Job description

Ulta Beauty in Bolingbrook, IL seeks a Senior Manager of Solution Architecture to lead the technology strategy for customer-facing digital experiences across Web, Mobile, and the GraphQL layer. This hands-on leadership role balances strategic direction with architectural design and prototyping, guiding a team of architects and collaborating with product, UX, and business leaders.

The role emphasizes AI-native engineering, scalable platforms, and continuous improvement, with a focus on