Sr Domain Architect

Location: Grand Rapids, MI

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

 

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave 

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

 

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

The Senior Domain Architect is responsible for the architecture of multiple value streams within and/or across multiple lines of business. Senior Domain Architects engage with the business to understand and align to the enterprise vision. They collaborate with architecture stakeholders to define the appropriate architecture leveraging the Enterprise Architecture vision. The Senior Domain Architect leads and influences other architects to ensure designs are developed according to methods and standards in place.

Position follows our hybrid schedule: Monday-Wednesday in Grand Rapids MI office, Thursday-Friday remote. Minimal travel expected.

 

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Define and enforce architecture principles, standards, reference models, and runways aligned with enterprise strategy and industry best practices. 
• Create and maintain system health maps and multi-year strategic business capability roadmaps that connect IT systems and services to business outcomes. 
• Design software and domain architectures that are robust, scalable, adaptable, and aligned with business requirements. 
• Develop conceptual and logical domain design diagrams; define major subsystems, interfaces, and non-functional requirements (including performance, monitoring, and reliability). 
• Evaluate architectural options, identify solution gaps, and ensure consistency, reuse, and simplification across domains. 
• Lead architectural decision records and governance processes to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards. Actively collaborate with enterprise architect representatives and processes. 
• Guide architects and delivery teams with both technical and business leadership, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and Agile practices. 
• Collaborate with Product Owners and IT partners to estimate and define features, prioritize the architectural runway, and support solution trains. 
• Work within Project Management frameworks to ensure efficient delivery, operations, and lifecycle management. 
• Advocate for domain objectives and act as a liaison among domain, platform, and enterprise architects. 
• Establish domain architecture governance, maintain accurate documentation, and ensure adherence to standards. 
• Continuously drive FinOps optimizations to ensure fiscally responsible Cloud usage 
• Lead the Architecture group for a large team of teams by setting and driving an overall vision; proactively guide and mentor the team of Architects 
• Perform additional duties as required. 

What You’ll Bring With You 

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (or equivalent experience/training). 
• 10+ years of experience in business application design, development, implementation, or solution architecture. 
• Experience with structured design and diverse technical environments, including strong understanding of technical architecture components. 
• Experience designing and implementing solutions in Azure including underlying Infrastructure as Code (IAC) 
• Proven technical leadership with the ability to guide teams across the domain lifecycle and influence stakeholders at multiple levels. 
• Strong knowledge of project management concepts and cross-functional delivery. 
• Experience with the Agile Framework orchestrated across many teams. 
• Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements and articulate solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural direction, reduce technical debt, and guide security and compliance awareness. 
• Experience evaluating technical proof-of-concepts and emerging technologies; self-driven curiosity and market awareness. 
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation, organizational, and communication skills (written and verbal). 
• Ability to understand both long-term strategic perspectives and short-term tactical needs. 
• Ability to foster relationships across IT, business teams, and vendors; communicate requirements and guidelines effectively. 
• Ability to estimate financial impacts and apply multiple technical solutions to business problems. 
• Commitment to mentoring others and contributing to team growth.