UNFI · 4 hours ago
Director of Enterprise Architecture
Providence, RI
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expUNFI is seeking a Director of Enterprise Architecture to lead and execute the architectural enterprise roadmap. This role involves collaborating with business teams to define technology architecture and modernization, while ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and managing technical debt.
Food and BeverageHealth CareHospitalityOrganic Food
Responsibilities
Create the vision, drives architectural best practices, and leads the execution and strategy of the architectural roadmap
Build an architecture organization that engages with enterprise and product software teams to ensure architectural patterns meet the needs of products across the enterprise. This includes providing Solution Architects to work within those teams to review architecture, provide feedback on application designs and provide overall technical leadership
Develop and implement strategies for managing technical debt, including prioritization, remediation plans, and prevention strategies
Collaborate with Technology and Business peers and define target state technology architecture and roadmaps that enable business imperatives while building on modern architecture principles and technology modernization
Ensure the architecture organization builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction
Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy
Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technological advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise. Lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions
Creates successful relationships with strategic vendor partners. Works collaboratively with vendor partners to ensure product and service offerings support the needs of the business and IT
Foster culture of innovation and collaboration, develops talent increasing performance and talent mobility
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
10+ years of relevant technology experience, including enterprise architecture, software architecture and design patterns
5+ years in a management role with a proven track record of leading effective teams, particularly with distributed teams
Experience with complex architectural patterns (SOA), building APIs, microservices, and event driven design
Experience in managing budgets and successful vendor management
Proven track record of influencing C-level leadership
Deep experience with software design and delivery on cloud platforms with an understanding of economic and business models for software in the cloud
Extensive knowledge of Cloud Native Architectures, in particular architecting enterprise applications on public cloud such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Extensive knowledge of Cloud Data Platform and Architecture with end-to-end dataflow and integration solution architecture
Strong analytical, problems-solving and conceptual skills
Strong project management skills; experience organizing, planning and executing large-scale projects from vision through implementation, involving internal and external resources
Demonstrated ability to create top performing teams and lead through example
Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available
Benefits
Paid Time Off
Sick Time
Paid holidays and parental leave
401K Program
Medical, dental, vision, life, and accidental death/dismemberment insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance program
Flexible Spending Account and/or Health Savings Account
Company
UNFI
UNFI is North America’s Premier Food Wholesaler.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
UNFI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (6)
2024 (2)
2023 (4)
2022 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$507.1M2024-04-25Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2014-07-15Post Ipo Equity· $7.1M
1996-11-01IPO
Leadership Team
Sandy Douglas
Chief Executive Officer
Giorgio Matteo Tarditi
President and CFO
Recent News
Digital Commerce 360
2025-12-17
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
2025-12-03
Company data provided by crunchbase