Domain Architect - Market-Facing Digital

The Domain Architect – Market-Facing Digital provides architecture design and technical advisory leadership for Owens Corning’s Digital Innovation market-facing platforms, including the web estate, customer and indirect portals, identity and commerce integrations. Working under the direction of the Senior Domain Architect, this role takes on medium to high complexity architecture work, produces options, recommendations and draft Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), and engages product owner and business technology partner organizations on architecture questions.

Reports to:                           GIS Director - Digital

Span of Control:                 Individual Contributor; may lead small team up to 3 FTE

Knowing Our Businesses and their Strategies

• Build relationships within the GIS organization, cross-functionally, and with key internal and external stakeholders; ensure effective contact to remain aligned with functional objectives
• Build relationships with product owner organizations, business technology partners and peer architects, and keep architecture engagement aligned with business priorities.
• Understand the strategic direction of the company’s businesses and create functional strategies to support and enhance business results; be knowledgeable of the project work that supports this direction and implications to the business
• Understand the strategy for market-facing channels (customer experience, portals, e-commerce) and translate it into architecture options.
• Ensure architecture work within the market-facing portfolio aligns with reference architectures, published ADRs, and enterprise standards

Executing Strategy

• Leads selected architecture efforts, delegated by the Senior Domain Architect, from beginning to end: problem framing, options with trade-offs, cost and risk, a recommended path, and a draft ADR.
• Present written recommendations and commentary on market-facing items to the Digital Innovation Architecture Board.
• Lead the architecture work for web estate and identity modernization, translating the roadmap into design direction, options, and draft ADRs, and partnering with delivery teams through execution.
• Will use business stakeholder requirements to inform technical designs and decisions
• Will partner with Product Owners and/or Senior Domain Architects to present design decisions to non-technical business stakeholders
• Maintain blueprints and architecture artifacts for market-facing domains in LeanIX and documentation tools.
• Serve as the architecture voice in the digital working groups.

Influencing in the Function

• Escalate to the Senior Domain Architect decisions outside this role’s authority: new standards, deviations from standard, and commitments on budget, timeline, or vendor.
• Influence Product, UX, QA and Security through recommendations and shared artifacts.
• Identify and escalate systemic technical risks, tech debt and scalability gaps in market-facing platforms.
• Advocate adherence to architectural patterns, ADRs and practice standards.
• Lead or participate in special projects that support the long-term strategic goals of the business and/or organization
• Identify opportunities to improve effectiveness, value, and perception of the function

Developing Talent

• Coach developers and developer leads on patterns and design through design reviews and pairing.
• Partner with leaders of the teams served to identify opportunities to strengthen architecture skills and practices.
• Model collaborative, inclusive behavior aligned with OC performance frameworks.

• Invest in personal growth and development, clearly focused on self-learning

JOB REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, a related technical field, or direct relevant work experience.
• 7-10+ years of progressive software development and architecture experience, including increasing responsibility for technical leadership and complex solution design.
• Demonstrated ability to produce decision-ready recommendations and to work effectively where final decision authority sits with another leader.
• Experience with architecture governance (ADRs, review boards, standards).

EXPERIENCE:

• Proven experience designing architecture for enterprise customer-facing web platforms.

• Architecture and systems design: deep, proven track record in scalable, secure application architectures; integration patterns; domain-driven design.
• Web platforms: strong working experience in composable or headless CMS, React and Next.js front ends, shared design systems.
• Identity and integration: strong experience with customer identity platforms (Auth0 or equivalent), OAuth and OIDC, REST APIs, and event-driven integration; working knowledge of MDM/PIM data flows.
• Cloud and DevOps: working knowledge of GCP and AWS, containers, and CI/CD with Azure DevOps and Terraform, at the depth needed to review and challenge designs.
• Security and compliance: working knowledge of secure-by-design practices aligned to ISO 27001.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Assessing architectural trade-offs, performance, cost and security risk.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills; writing clear options papers and ADRs.
• Ability to influence decision makers
• Presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated judgment in making architecture decisions within established authority and identifying matters requiring broader review or escalation
• Ability to travel, domestically and internationally, approximately 10%.

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About Owens Corning  

Owens Corning is a branded building products leader with three complementary market-leading businesses providing roofing, insulation, and doors primarily for residential markets in North America and Europe. The company operates with an integrated go-to-market strategy and a unique set of OC Advantages™ – including its iconic brand, unparalleled commercial strength, leading technology, and winning cost position – to help customers win and grow in the market. Owens Corning is committed to helping build better and achieve more through winning partnerships, leading performance, and engaging people. Founded in 1938 and headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, Owens Corning is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: OC). For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com. 

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.