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 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:

As a Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture, you’ll be part of our Information Technology 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 organization’s 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.

You’ll 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. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t 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- TOGAF, Zachman.
• 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:

You’ll 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 you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll 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.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

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Salary Information:

The Salary range for this position is $134,300.00 - $231,700.00. 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, 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.

Company Overview:

We Don’t 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 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s 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:

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re 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 hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

What You’ll Also Get:

Career Opportunity:

Career paths aren’t 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:

You’ll 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 you’ll 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 that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:

You’ll 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, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete an application or access our website, please contact us at (860) 827-3923 or at accommodations@sbdinc.com. Due to volume, we cannot respond to unrelated inquiries about the status of a completed application or resetting an account password.

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