Enterprise Architect – Supply Chain

We are seeking a highly experienced and forward-looking Enterprise Architect to lead the architecture of Supply Chain platforms, with a strong emphasis on AI/ML-driven personalization, data intelligence, and scalable cloud-native solutions.

This role bridges business strategy, customer experience, and technology execution, defining enterprise-wide digital architecture and guiding engineering teams across the full lifecycle of digital products and platforms.

Local (El Segundo) candidates are strongly preferred. Remote candidates are required to travel 50% - 75% (to corporate and other facilities as required). Relocation to Corporate in El Segundo, CA is recommended. For local candidates, onsite presence is needed.

Key Responsibilities
• Define and own end-to-end enterprise architecture for Supply Chain systems.
• Architect scalable, secure, and composable solutions across manufacturing, planning, procurement, quality, product development, and logistics systems.
• Design and govern AI/ML-enabled capabilities, including personalization, recommendation engines, task automation, pricing optimization, fraud detection, and customer insights.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture blueprints, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned with business and digital transformation goals.
• Establish architectural standards and best practices for microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Partner with supply chain leaders to translate business objectives into scalable and future-ready digital architectures.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical risk assessments, and dependency analysis across portfolios.
• Drive data and analytics architecture supporting real-time and batch use cases, customer 360, and AI model pipelines.
• Evaluate and recommend supply chain platforms, AI platforms, cloud services, and SaaS tools.
• Guide proof-of-concepts (POCs) and pilots for emerging technologies including Generative AI and intelligent automation.
• Ensure architecture aligns with security, privacy, compliance, and performance standards at enterprise scale.

Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, with 3+ years in an Enterprise or Lead Architect role.
• Deep experience designing and delivering supply chain platforms at scale including platforms such as Oracle Fusion ERP, PTC Windchill, IBM DOM, BYWMS, Salesforce, Anaplan, Veeva Vault Platform, etc.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures (GCP, OCI, AWS, or Azure).
• Hands-on experience with microservices, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and API management.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and platforms, including:
• Personalization & recommendation systems
• Search and discovery optimization
• Customer analytics and predictive modeling
• Generative AI and conversational interfaces
• Experience integrating data platforms and streaming technologies such as:
• Kafka / Confluent
• Cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.)
• Real-time and event-driven pipelines
• Solid understanding of identity, security, privacy, and compliance in global supply chain platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, and SRE practices.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to influence at executive and senior leadership levels.
• Cloud or AI certifications are a plus.
• 10–20% travel as required.