Sr Domain Architect

Meijer; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement

Job summary

Meijer is seeking a Senior Domain Architect to lead architecture across multiple value streams. You will align enterprise vision with design, drive domain objectives, and guide AI/GenAI initiatives on Azure. The role blends hands-on architecture with cross-team leadership.

Position follows a hybrid schedule: Grand Rapids office Monday-Wednesday and remote Thursday-Friday, with a focus on scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline.
• 10+ years' experience in business application design, development, implementation, and/or solution architecture.
• SAFe certification (SSM, SASM, SA, SPC, SPMPO) or equivalent.
• ITIL Foundations certification.
• Experience with Scaled Agile framework is preferred.
• Proven leadership of technical teams and architectural reviews.
• Experience guiding AI/GenAI solutions on Microsoft Azure stack is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and ensure compliance with architecture principles and standards for systems and components.
• Create and maintain strategic business capability roadmaps linked to IT capabilities.
• Design, implement and sustain roadmaps aligning software with business needs.
• Guide architecture decisions to ensure standardization, reuse, and consistency.
• Define architecture runways and collaborate with product owners and IT partners.
• Lead LLMOps and responsible AI governance across domains.
• Establish governance and compliance for the domain architecture.
• Engage stakeholders and translate business needs into architecture requirements.

Skills

SAFe certification

ITIL Foundations

Scaled Agile experience

Enterprise architecture leadership

Azure AI / GenAI familiarity

Technical team leadership

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Azure stack

AI/GenAI toolchains

Job description

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family - take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth

The Senior Domain Architect is responsible for the architecture of multiple value streams within and/or across multiple lines of business. Senior Domain Architects engage with the business to understand and align to the enterprise vision. They collaborate with architecture stakeholders to define the appropriate architecture leveraging the Enterprise Architecture vision. The Senior Domain Architect leads and influences other architects to ensure designs are developed according to methods and standards in place.

Position will follow our hybrid schedule: Monday-Wednesday in Grand Rapids MI corporate office, Thursday-Friday remote.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Develop and ensure compliance with architecture principles and standards for the various systems and components based on enterprise strategies, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Create and maintain strategic business capability roadmaps, linking IT systems and services to the capabilities they enable in conjunction with business stakeholders.
• Design, implement and sustain strategic business capability roadmaps that align software solutions with business requirements.
• Leverage your expertise in software architecture to ensure that roadmaps are not only robust and reliable, but also flexible and adaptable to accommodate future growth and changes in the business landscape.
• Contribute to architectural decision records that guide solution development, standardization, reuse, simplification, and consistency across domains.
• Define, develop, implement, and communicate architecture runways that guide solution development, standardization, reuse, simplification, and consistency across domains.
• Envision and advocate for domain objectives across domain, platform, and enterprise architects to align with business priorities
• Evaluates architectural options and defines overall architecture of the system, ensuring commonality across systems.
• Defines and evolves reference architectures for AI & Automation workloads on the Microsoft Azure stack - including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale, agentic and multi-agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool integration, and Microsoft Copilot Studio - ensuring alignment with Enterprise Architecture and security standards.
• Guides LLMOps and responsible AI practices across domains - including evaluation harnesses, guardrails and content safety, model routing and fallback, PTU/quota capacity planning, and cost optimization - and leads architectural reviews of AI/GenAI solutions prior to production deployment.
• Defines non-functional requirements including performance monitoring, alerting and code management, ensuring alignment with technology best practices and SLAs.
• Collaborates with enterprise architecture to identify gaps in solutions and ensure alignment.
• Guides architects and teams to align with enterprise strategy and vision through technical and business leadership.
• Determines major elements and subsystems and defines interfaces as well as architectural runway.
• Leads and prioritizes the architectural runway for the solution trains
• Interfaces with the Product Owner and IT partners at the Program level to define and estimate features for agile teams.
• Works within the SAFe Agile framework and employs ITIL best practices.
• Create conceptual and logical domain design diagrams
• Work to create a multiple year domain strategic roadmap.
• Define standards definitions and reference models for the specific domain.
• Establish domain architecture governance and compliance for the specific domain.
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You'll Bring With You:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience and technical training is required.
• Any SAFe certification (SSM, SASM, SA, SPC, SPMPO)
• ITIL Foundations certification
• 10+ years' experience in business application design, development, implementation, and/or solution architecture.
• Knowledge of project management techniques is required (cross-functional experience is highly desirable).
• Experience with structured design, development, and implementation of new and established computing architectures.
• Technical team leadership experience.
• Experience in Scaled Agile framework is preferred.
• Lead and understand bridge between the many disparate efforts related to the architectural impact of changes to systems.
• Serve as a guide able to navigate the full domain lifecycle to assist IT teams and business users.
• Lead and prioritize architecture direction for lines of business.
• Drive technical debt reduction, application/platform security, and compliance awareness.
• Self-driven research of technologies and processes
• Evaluate and guide technical proof of concepts.
• Ensure documentation for the domain is up to date and complete, adhering to Enterprise Architecture standards.
• Understand technology solutions across the organization.
• Fosters relationships with IT teams, business users, and vendors
• Engage and influence stakeholders and peers at different levels.
• Ability to articulate the architectural story based on audience.
• Assist in the technical and personal growth of others.
• Meetings & discussion facilitation
• Experience with multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments.
• Enterprise-scale experience architecting AI or GenAI solutions on the Microsoft Azure stack (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, AKS, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps), including RAG, agentic and multi-agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and LLM evaluation frameworks, is preferred.
• Working knowledge of LLMOps, responsible AI governance (model risk, content safety, data privacy), and cost/capacity management (PTUs, quotas, model routing) for production AI platforms is preferred.
• Experience guiding teams through AI-assisted and spec-driven development, context/prompt engineering standards, and evaluating GenAI frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or AutoGen is preferred.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Knowledge of all components of a technical architecture.
• Strong understanding of network architecture.
• Ability to understand the long-term ('big picture') and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Translates business needs into technical architecture requirements.
• Communicates IT requirements and guidelines to vendor partners.
• Estimates financial impact of technical architecture alternatives.
• Applies multiple technical solutions to business problems.
• Desire to learn new tech & market trends.
• Quickly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technology.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.

We opened our doors more than 90 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we're a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 270 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijers policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request. Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.