Sr. Lead, Enterprise Architect

Under Armour, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 161,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports apparel company is seeking a Sr. Lead, Enterprise Architect to design high-performance solutions and ensure alignment with business goals. The role requires extensive experience and offers a fully remote work schedule, competitive compensation, and comprehensive benefits. Candidates should possess a strong background in enterprise architecture and experience in multiple business domains.

Benefits

Paid volunteer days

Merchandise discounts

401(k) matching

Maternity and parental leave

Health and fitness benefits

Qualifications

• 14 years of relevant experience or equivalent qualifications.
• Proven success designing solutions across multiple business domains.
• Skilled in secure system design and performance engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable and secure solutions aligned with business goals.
• Develop architecture roadmaps and guidance for stakeholders.
• Mentor engineering teams in modern architecture practices.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture Expertise

Technical Proficiency

Strategic Influence

Global Systems Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree + 10 years of experience or equal

Master's degree + 8 years of experience

Tools

PLM, ERP (S/4HANA), OMS, POS

Git

modeling tools

Job description

Overview

Sr. Lead, Enterprise Architect

At Under Armour, we are committed to empowering those who strive for more. Our values—Act Sustainably, Celebrate the Wins, Fight on Together, Love Athletes and Stand for Equality—guide our teams and define the qualities we expect in every teammate.

Our pursuit of better begins with innovation and our team’s mission of being the best. We provide the freedom to go further, developing, delivering, and selling state-of-the-art products and digital tools that help top performers excel.

If you are a current Under Armour teammate, apply to this position on the Internal Career Site Here. (https://performancemanager8.successfactors.com/sf/careers/jobsearch?bplte_company=ua&_s.crb=aNMP8gWoYkBDFn%252bz2BldysgcgQHZpVs6tHzE9smSuXE%253d)

Purpose of Role

The Under Armour Enterprise Architecture team ensures alignment between architectural roadmaps, business strategies, and enterprise transformation efforts. This role, Sr Lead Enterprise Architect with specialization in Enterprise Applications, ensures the application portfolio aligns with business needs, enterprise standards, and industry best practices. The architect produces detailed documentation for applications, projects, processes, governance, patterns, principles and integrations. The role partners closely with technical leaders, solution architects, and stakeholders to align, integrate new technologies, rationalize redundant applications, produce architecture roadmaps, provide insight into industry trends, and drive innovation. The ideal candidate has extensive experience as a lead engineer or solutions architect in the Enterprise Applications space and experience operating within TOGAF or a similar Enterprise Architecture framework.

Your Impact

• Design scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions aligned with business goals
• Develop technical architecture, data flows and diagrams for new initiatives, current state and target system architectures
• Develop and socialize multi-horizon roadmaps and capability maps aligned to business strategy, value streams and funding cycles
• Guide and educate on architecture strategy, integration standards, and industry trends across a varied composable commerce ecosystem
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Mentor lead engineers and solution architects in modern architecture practices, composable design, and documentation quality
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Build prototypes for new initiatives and evolving business needs
• Assist in discovery and RFx processes
• Support audit and compliance activities
• Produce clear, auditable artifacts and lead architecture reviews
• Contribute to cybersecurity, privacy and AI governance workflows – streamline intake, clarify decision criteria and reduce cycle time
• Stay current with industry trends and hands-on development

Qualifications

• 14 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor\'s degree + 10 years of relevant experience OR Master\'s degree + 8 years of relevant experience
• Enterprise Architecture Expertise: Proven success designing solutions across Product, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and Commerce domains, including PLM, ERP (S/4HANA), OMS, POS, and multi-cloud Salesforce implementations
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in performance engineering, observability, secure system design (zero-trust, privacy), relational databases, Git, command line, and modeling tools
• Strategic Influence: Effective at aligning cross-functional stakeholders, driving consensus in matrixed environments, and connecting architecture decisions to business outcomes and value realization
• Global Systems Leadership: Experience launching and supporting highly available, mission-critical systems worldwide; familiar with RFx processes and enterprise-grade resiliency patterns; communication & storytelling: ability to translate complex topics for non-technical audiences

Workplace Location

• Location: Home Office; Fully Remote
• Work Schedule: Fully Remote
• Travel: Possible travel to regional offices, conferences, and trainings

Relocation

• No relocation provided

Base Compensation

$161,629.60 - $222,240.70 USD

Most new hires fall within this range and have the opportunity to earn more over time. Initial placement within the salary range, however, is based on an individual\'s relevant knowledge, skills and experience for the position. UA is committed to helping our teammates succeed and advance in their careers. Base salary is only one component of our competitive Total Rewards package.

Benefits & Perks

• Paid "UA Give Back" Volunteer Days: Work alongside your team to support initiatives in your local community
• Under Armour Merchandise Discounts
• Competitive 401(k) plan matching
• Maternity and Parental Leave for eligible and FMLA-eligible teammates
• Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources

Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, family or paternal status and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact our Human Resources team via [e-mail].