Staff Enterprise Architect

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As Staff Enterprise Architect, you will lead architectural direction for an assigned business or technology domain or shared enterprise capability. Partnering with business, product, engineering, data, and security leaders, you will translate business strategy into target-state architectures and actionable technology roadmaps. You will guide cross-platform decisions and reusable architectural patterns in partnership with fellow enterprise architects, while working with engineering teams to support implementation and adoption. Within the broader enterprise architecture strategy, you will balance business value, security, reliability, scalability, and cost to enable cohesive, maintainable capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Influence future enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps in alignment with business priorities and enterprise strategy
• Assess emerging technologies and platform options for Kohl’s initiatives, evaluating business value, technical fit, risks, and adoption considerations
• Lead architectural direction for Business, Foundational, and Platform initiatives spanning multiple applications, integrations, and teams
• Guide solution design and implementation across complex enterprise environments, balancing business value, security, reliability, scalability, and cost
• Develop and maintain current-state and target-state architectures and modernization roadmaps for assigned domains and capabilities
• Provide architectural expertise, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and resolve tradeoffs in partnership with fellow enterprise architects and teams
• Contribute to architectural and technical standards and reference patterns, guiding adoption through architecture reviews and implementation guidance
• Promote consistent architectural practices through cross-team collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mentoring engineers and technical leads

Addendum

Staff Enterprise Architect - Digital and Marketing

• Drive architectural strategy for digital channels, including kohls.com and native iOS and Android applications, aligning platform evolution with business priorities and customer-experience goals
• Guide marketing technology architecture for personalized engagement, content delivery, and measurement
• Lead integration strategies across mobile, web, marketing, and enterprise platforms to enable consistent omnichannel experiences and reliable customer data flows, incorporating customer consent and privacy requirements
• Establish initial system boundaries, and key assumptions during planning with fellow enterprise architects and engineering leaders
• Experience architecting marketing technology capabilities, including CMS (Content Management System) / DAM (Digital Asset Management), CDP (Customer Data Platform), personalization, experimentation, and analytics
• Experience architecting systems for digital discoverability, including content rendering, structured data, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
• Experience designing and delivering cloud-native, customer-facing platforms, event-driven architecture, and containerized services
• Experience architecting systems optimized for digital discoverability, content rendering, structured data, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
• Understanding of emerging AI-enabled commerce patterns, agentic commerce, conversational experiences, and agent-interaction technologies such as WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol)

What Skills You Have

Required

• 6+ years of experience in a technology-related field, including prior lead experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Advanced knowledge of systems design and experience architecting and implementing large-scale enterprise systems
• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to translate business priorities into target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, and actionable recommendations for teams
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, resolve architectural tradeoffs, and communicate complex technical decisions to business and executive audiences

Preferred

• Advanced degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Understanding of Kohl’s Technology capabilities
• Experience modernizing complex application ecosystems, including platform consolidation, incremental migration, and reduction of technical debt

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description at any time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section
• Ability to comply with dress code requirements
• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation
• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company
• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel
• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others
• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes
• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs
• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units
• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner