Bass Pro Shops · 1 week ago
Principal Enterprise Architect – Platforms, DevOps, SRE, Microservices, Event‑Driven Architecture, App, Data & Cloud - Onsite
Springfield, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
12+ years expBass Pro Shops is seeking a hands-on Principal Enterprise Architect who will serve as the senior-most architecture leader across platforms, applications, data, and cloud. This role involves setting the strategic direction for the company's digital ecosystem and leading a team of architects to ensure technology decisions align with business outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Own and evolve the enterprise architecture vision, blueprint, and multi‑year roadmap
Lead execution of modern architectural patterns including domain‑driven design, microservices, event-driven integration, cloud-native platforms, and API-first ecosystems
Head the Architecture Review Board (ARB); establish decision frameworks and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
Directly lead and manage a team of architects, providing coaching, 1:1s, performance development, and career growth
Build and mature the architecture practice, including standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, templates, and best practices
Foster a strong culture of collaboration, continuous learning, technical excellence, and psychological safety across 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
Define the enterprise strategy for DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, GitOps, and platform engineering (“golden paths” and self‑service developer platforms)
Establish and enforce SRE practices—SLO/SLI definitions, error budgets, observability, incident response, resilience engineering, and performance/scalability patterns
Drive adoption of Zero Downtime, Canary, Blue/Green, and progressive delivery strategies
Lead 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
Provide 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 stakeholders
Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and impacts clearly to executives and delivery teams
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
12–15+ years in software/architectural leadership roles; 5+ years leading other architects or senior engineers
Proven experience delivering cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven systems at scale
Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, 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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Account
Voluntary benefits
401k Retirement Savings
Paid holidays
Paid vacation
Paid sick time
Bass Pro Cares Fund
And more!
Company
Bass Pro Shops
Your Adventure Starts Here! Find gear for Fishing, Boating, Hunting, Camping, and much more at Bass Pro Shops. It is a sub-organization of Great American Outdoors Group.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
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Leadership Team
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