Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture

Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture

Come make the world and accelerate your success.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World. Sound like you Join our top-notch team of approximately 43500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the worlds most beloved brands including DEWALT BLACKDECKER CRAFTSMAN STANLEY CUB CADET and HUSTLER.

The Job:

As a Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture youll be part of our Information Technology Team team working as a remote employee. Enterprise Architect serves as a strategic technology partner to the business responsible for translating strategic opportunities into actionable business-aligned technology strategies. This role ensures that technology investments deliver measurable value and support the organizations long-term objectives. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Integration ERP Data AI and related domains and excels at bridging business needs with innovative technology solutions. Provides the reusable standards guidelines patterns and frameworks and has extensive knowledge of architectural frameworks methodologies and tools. Youll get to:

• Partner with business leaders and IT to understand strategic objectives and translate them into actionable architecture artifacts (capability maps value streams operating models and roadmaps).
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework ensuring alignment between business goals and IT strategy.
• Support portfolio planning by linking initiatives to capabilities and strategic outcomes
• Track and communicate the value delivered by technology initiatives using metrics and KPIs to demonstrate business impact.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops and architecture reviews to drive alignment and decision making
• Establish and maintain architectural standards templates and governance practices
• Promote application integration data architecture strategy including data governance quality security
• Lead the adoption and integration of AI/ML technologies across capabilities ensuring responsible and ethical use of AI
• Interacts with various business and IT stakeholders throughout the planning PMO SDLC and Service Management processes
• Leads the complexity reduction agenda by enabling alignment to standards
• Working with the BUs responsible for retirement of obsolete applications and technologies
• Incorporates domain specific strategies into the future state BU app portfolio
• Facilitates the effective integration of frameworks and corresponding processes with other related business and IT processes and patterns from an architectural standpoint
• Leads / facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide information technology and solution decision making for the enterprise
• Oversees development and maintenance of conceptual logical and physical application architecture

The Person:

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. Youre not intimidated by innovation. Wouldnt it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good In fact you embrace it. You also have:

Functional Skills:

• Ability to tie together solutions across systems
• Business acumen in multiple capability areas (Finance Supply Chain Enterprise Services) preferably in manufacturing industry
• Business process modeling
• Facilitation
• Knowledge of required technologies (incl 3rd party solutions)
• Understanding of future technologies
• Project & Product Delivery Model knowledge
• Strong understanding of value tracking methodologies and experience with business case development.
• Excellent communication facilitation and stakeholder management skills.

Technical Skills:

• Cloud computing / SaaS technologies - Azure Google AWS
• Container Strategies - (Kubernetes EC2 Docker)
• DevOps
• Microservices
• Enterprise architecture Framework- TOGAFZachman
• Integration Architecture - APIs ESBs ETL REST/SOAP
• Data Analytics - NoSQL Data Lakes Power BI/Tableau
• Security Framework
• AI/ML Frameworks
• ERPs

Education/ Experience

• Undergraduate degree and 16 years relevant experience or
• Graduate degree and 12 years relevant experience.
• Additional training or certification in organization change management highly desirable
• Previous experience as a successful enterprise architect highly desirable
• 7 to 10 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines (such as technical architecture solution architecture network management application development middleware design information analysis database management or operations management) in a heterogeneous environment or five years of experience in solution architecture business analysis or business strategic planning

The Details:

Youll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan including:

• Medical dental life vision disability 401(k) Employee Stock Purchase Plan paid time off and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:

We want our company to be a place youll want to be and stay. Being part of our team means youll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20 brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources including our digital learning portal.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism giving back and sustainable business practices.

Whats more youll get that pride that comes from empowering makers doers protectors and everyday heroes all over the world. Were more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. Were visionaries and innovators. As successful as weve been in the past we have so much further to go. Thats where you come in. Join us!

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• This is the lowest to highest annual full-time salary range we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The salary offered within the range may vary depending on multiple factors including job level geographic location job-related knowledge skills qualifications experience and in compliance with local wage requirements. Please note that salary is only one component of total rewards at Stanley Black & Decker.

• The salary range listed in this job posting reflects the range for the primary location specified. The salary range may vary for other locations.

• The successful candidate may be eligible for annual merit increases.

• Medical dental life vision disability401(k) Employee Stock Purchase Plan paid time off and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.

• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tool sand other partner programs.

We Dont Just Build The World We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here youll get the unique chance to impact some of the worlds most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS DEWALT CRAFTSMAN MAC TOOLS and Black Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

Were the Worlds largest tool company. Were industry visionaries. Were solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art smart factory products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843 but that hasnt stopped us from evolving into a vibrant diverse global growth company.

What Youll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths arent linear here. Being part of our global company with 60 brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Benefits & Perks

Youll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical dental life vision wellness program disability retirement benefits Employee Stock Purchase Plan Paid Time Off including paid vacation holidays & personal days and tuition reimbursement. And of course discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.

Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means youll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because thats how the best work gets done. Youll find we like to have fun here too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
Youll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism giving back and sustainable business practices.

EEO Statement:
All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race color religion age sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veterans status or any other protected characteristic.

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