Senior Architect – Planning & Merchandising

🕒 July 8

🌽 Illinois, Nebraska, +2 more states – Remote

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Crate and Barrel

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5001 - 10000 employees

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

Retail • eCommerce • B2C

Crate and Barrel is an industry-leading home furnishings specialty retailer founded in 1962 that helps people build purposeful homes across a family of brands including Crate & Barrel, Crate & Kids, CB2, and Hudson Grace. A leader in omnichannel and direct-marketing retail, the company operates more than 100 stores in the U. S. and Canada, supports international franchise locations and eCommerce platforms in multiple countries, and offers curated sourcing, production, custom delivery and set-up in over 90 countries. Owned by the Otto Group, Crate & Barrel emphasizes the physical retail experience alongside robust digital and eCommerce capabilities and employs roughly 7,500 associates.

📋 Description

• Contributes to the architectural vision, roadmap, standards, and best practices for the Planning & Merchandising domain, ensuring alignment with organizational and enterprise goals • Serves as the primary technical authority for enterprise planning solutions, guiding implementation decisions, configuration vs. customization trade-offs, and integration approaches • Provides technical leadership and design guidance to development teams, leading the design of scalable planning system architectures that meet performance, scalability, security, and maintainability requirements • Designs architectural solutions supporting end-to-end planning processes — demand forecasting, merchandise financial planning, OTB, inventory optimization, replenishment, and allocation — accommodating the full planning hierarchy and pre/in-season workflows • Partners with Merchandising and Planning business stakeholders to translate planning requirements into scalable technical architectures and drives alignment on legacy system sunset and integration strategies • Designs and collaborates on integration patterns and data pipelines connecting planning systems to enterprise systems (ERP, OMS, WMS) using REST, event-driven, and ETL/ELT approaches, ensuring data quality, latency, and lineage requirements are met • Defines data architecture standards for planning master and transaction data; collaborates with data engineering to ensure planning data supports reporting and AI/ML use cases • Participates in architectural governance forums and collaborates with enterprise and domain architects to ensure solutions align with CBH enterprise standards • Identifies and mitigates architectural risks and technical debt; creates and maintains comprehensive architectural documentation including solution specifications, data flow diagrams, and integration maps

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) • 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, systems integration, or a related technical discipline • 3+ years of architecture experience, including design and governance of enterprise-scale systems • Experience with enterprise planning solutions (Blue Yonder/JDA, o9, Anaplan, or comparable) and retail planning or supply chain technology strongly preferred • Experience with enterprise integration platforms, SaaS vendor collaboration, and agile delivery environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision • Life insurance and Disability • Retirement and 401(k) match • Paid time off, wellness time and volunteer time • Merchandise discount and EAP resources • Tuition Reimbursement