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The Senior Manager Enterprise Architect plays a strategic leadership role in aligning technology architecture with business goals. This position drives enterprise-wide architecture standards, governance, and innovation, ensuring consistency across solutions and delivery teams.Job Description:Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management, or a relevant field required.
Work Experiences:
- 12+ years of experience in architecture roles with increasing responsibility.
- Experience managing architecture governance and standards across an enterprise.
- Proven leadership in driving technology roadmaps and portfolio alignment.
- Retail experience preferred.
Skills:
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Expertise in architecture tooling and modeling languages (e.g., ArchiMate, Abacus).
- Ability to align architecture with business strategy and product roadmaps.
- Experience with cloud platforms and integration technologies.
- Strategic thinking and decision-making capabilities.
- Professional certifications are a plus (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
Responsibilities:
- Define and enforce architecture principles, patterns, and guardrails.
- Lead the Architecture Review Board and ensure compliance across solutions.
- Own and maintain technology roadmaps and reference architectures.
- Align enterprise architecture with business strategy and product portfolios.
- Collaborate with PMO to provide architectural input during intake and prioritization.
- Guide federated architects and ensure consistency across delivery towers.
- Drive innovation initiatives and oversee prototyping efforts.
- Present architecture strategy, risks, and opportunities to the CIO/CTO.
- Manage architecture artifacts and ensure quality and accessibility.
- Participate in the innovation practice by:
- Govern the innovation pipeline, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and architectural guardrails.
- Prioritize innovation initiatives in collaboration with the Distinguished Architect and business stakeholders.
- Oversee the transition of successful innovations from prototype to enterprise-scale implementation.
- Establish metrics and KPIs to measure the impact of innovation initiatives.
- Champion a culture of innovation across architecture and delivery teams.
- Duties may change; team members may be required to perform other duties as assigned.
Physical Requirements & Attendance
- Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties
- Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures, and rules governing professional staff behavior
- Regular office attendance is required.
- Flexible work schedule to support business needs.
Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate with regard to employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law.
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At Academy Sports + Outdoors, we believe in the power of fun. And we believe in helping our customers have more of it. With a wide assortment of sporting and outdoors gear, Academy offers the best brands under one roof — curated to make the most of every budget. Day in and day out, our 20,000+ Team Members bring a sense of adventure, energy, and passion to work. Understanding our people and the things that matter to them has been at the core of Academy culture for over 80 years. We take pride in creating a workplace that values hard work, commitment, growth, and of course, FUN.
Academy — headquartered in Katy, TX, a suburb of Houston — is one of the nation’s largest sporting goods and outdoor stores. We offer a broad assortment of quality hunting, fishing, and camping equipment and gear, as well as sports and leisure products, footwear, apparel, and much more.
Originally founded in 1938 as a family business in Texas, Academy has grown to a wide network of stores across many states, with $6.8 billion in annual revenue.
