Principal Enterprise Architect - Platforms, DevOps, ...

POSITION SUMMARY:We are seeking ahands‑on Principal Enterprise Architectwho will serve as the senior-most architecture leader across platforms, applications, data, and cloud. This role sets the strategic direction for our next‑generation digital ecosystem—including microservices, event-driven architecture, DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering—and alsoleads a team of architects(solution architects, platform architects, data architects, and domain architects).This leader drives botharchitecture strategy and people leadership: shaping the roadmap, mentoring and developing architects, reviewing designs, and ensuring technology decisions align with business outcomes. The role blends thought leadership, execution excellence, and strong architectural governance.This is an onsite position, located in Springfield, Missouri. Qualified candidates must either be local or willing to relocate to the area. Relocation assistance is provided, if necessary.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:Enterprise Architecture LeadershipOwn and evolve theenterprise architecture vision, blueprint, and multi‑year roadmap.Lead execution of modern architectural patterns includingdomain‑driven design, microservices, event-driven integration, cloud-native platforms, andAPI-firstecosystems.Head theArchitecture Review Board (ARB); establish decision frameworks and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).People Leadership & Organizational DevelopmentDirectly lead and manage a team of architects, providing coaching, 1:1s, performance development, and career growth.Build and mature thearchitecture practice, including standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, templates, and best practices.Foster a strong culture ofcollaboration, continuous learning, technical excellence, and psychological safetyacross architecture and engineering.Provide thought leadership and partner closely with Engineering Managers, Product, Security, and Infrastructure leadership to drive alignment.Support the recruitment, onboarding, and development of top architecture talent; identify skill gaps and create development plans.Platform Engineering, DevOps & SREDefine the enterprise strategy for DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, GitOps, and platform engineering (“golden paths” and self‑service developer platforms).Establish and enforceSRE practices—SLO/SLI definitions, error budgets, observability, incident response, resilience engineering, and performance/scalability patterns.Drive adoption ofZero Downtime,Canary,Blue/Green, andprogressive deliverystrategies.Cloud, Security & Data ArchitectureLead cloud strategy and architecture: multi-account landing zones, networking, service mesh, identity, secrets, encryption, policy-as-code, DR/HA, and FinOps optimization.Oversee data architecture patterns (streaming pipelines, CDC, lake/lakehouse, governance, lineage, quality, cataloging).Ensure alignment with enterprise security standards and partner with security architecture on threat modeling, secure design, and compliance.Solution & Delivery LeadershipProvide architectural oversight for key programs—review designs, approve patterns, unblock teams, and support high-risk technical initiatives.Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership and senior business municate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and impacts clearly to executives and delivery teams.EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree12-15+ yearsin software/architectural leadership roles;5+ yearsleading other architects or senior engineers.Proven experience deliveringcloud-native,microservices, andevent-drivensystems at scale.Deep hands-on knowledge ofKubernetes, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform/Bicep), and observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).Strong understanding of data platforms (relational, NoSQL, caching, streaming), event streaming platforms (Kafka/Kinesis/PubSub), and API frameworks (REST/GraphQL/gRPC).Demonstrated success mentoring architects, guiding teams through ambiguity, and uplifting engineering maturity.Strong communication, cross-functional leadership, and executive presentation skills.KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY: Experience in retail or e-commerce industry.Hands-on experience with GitHub, Aqua Security, Akamai, Elastic.Knowledge of API Gateway management (Kong, Azure API Management) and service mesh technologies.Familiarity with ITIL frameworks and enterprise systems like ServiceNow.Experience with FinOps principles and cloud cost management.PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:Regularly sits and does computer work.Occasionally walks and stands.Seldom/Never lifts up to 50 DEPENDENT JUDGEMENT:Performs duties within scope of general company policies, procedures, and objectives. Analyzes problems and performs needs assessments. Uses judgment in adapting broad guidelines to achieve desired result. Regular exercise of independent judgment within accepted practices. Makes recommendations that affect policies, procedures, and practices.Full Time Benefits Summary:Enjoy discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!MedicalDentalVisionHealth Savings AccountFlexible Spending AccountVoluntary benefits401k Retirement SavingsPaid holidaysPaid vacationPaid sick timeBass Pro Cares FundAnd more!Bass Pro Shops is an equal opportunity employer. Hiring decisions are administered without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.Reasonable AccommodationsQualified individuals with known disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit your nearest location or contact us at Bass Pro Shops

Created: 2026-02-13