Strategic Enterprise Architect - Data & AI Enablement

Recreational Equipment, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

REI is seeking an Enterprise Architect – Data & AI enablement to steer enterprise architecture across data governance, AI architecture, and platform strategy. You will guide investment decisions, shape guardrails, and align capabilities with business needs while partnering with data teams, security, and product leaders.

You will lead governance efforts, define roadmaps for data, AI, and platform architectures, and mentor engineers to ensure practical, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years across software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, data architecture, and AI/ML systems.
• 10+ years systems architecture experience with large-scale databases and apps.
• Proven Enterprise Architecture influence across multiple domains and stakeholders.
• Experience building or modernizing large retail tech solutions.
• Knowledge of EA disciplines: business, information, application, data, tech, and infrastructure.
• Experience defining target architectures, roadmaps, and governance artifacts.
• Experience with data architecture and governance concepts: data lakes, data governance, data quality, lineage, and metadata.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture strategy, standards, and reference architectures aligned to business goals.
• Partner with leaders to align technology investments with priorities and platform strategies.
• Identify cross-platform impacts, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs for major initiatives.
• Guide architecture decisions and ensure coherence across capabilities, data domains, apps, and infrastructure.
• Lead analysis and governance to support planning, investment, and build-vs-buy decisions.
• Mentor architects and engineers across architecture disciplines and promote best practices.

Skills

Enterprise architecture leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

DAMA CDMP certification

Tools

TOGAF

LeanIX

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

REI is seeking an Enterprise Architect – Data & AI enablement to steer enterprise architecture across data governance, AI architecture, and platform strategy. You will guide investment decisions, shape guardrails, and align capabilities with business needs while partnering with data teams, security, and product leaders.

You will lead governance efforts, define roadmaps for data, AI, and platform architectures, and mentor engineers to ensure practical, scalable solutions.