Enterprise Architect

At Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), we’ve been hiring friends since 1937—people who share our passion for helping customers feel right at home. If you share our vision, we invite you to be one of us! People love working here! Named one of Furniture Today’s Best places to work, and here a few reasons why: A FUN, stable work environment, with no layoffs in our history. A safe place to work and shop, development opportunities leading you to the career of your dreamsand a culture that encourages volunteering and serving our communities.

Pay Range: $103,944 - 167,382 annually (based in experience and location)

Job Description: Your Piece of the Puzzle

Step into a highly visible role where you’ll shape the future of technology at NFM. As our Enterprise Architecture and a trusted advisor to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), you’ll connect business strategy with a clear, sustainable technology vision across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, security, and emerging technology. You’ll define target-state direction, establish practical standards and guardrails, and help ensure NFM’s technology investments work together as a cohesive enterprise ecosystem. Partnering with General Managers, business leaders, and solution architects across Technology Solutions and Technology Operations, you’ll align roadmaps, guide modernization, simplify complexity, and resolve decisions that span the organization. This is an opportunity to make an enterprise-wide impact through influence, facilitation, sound judgment, and clear communication—without responsibility for day-to-day delivery organizations. This position requires the candidate to reside in NE, IA, KS, MO, or TX. Final candidates will be required to come on-site prior to receiving an offer or on their first day of employment.

Job Duties: A Day in the Life

• Lead: Direct the continuous evolution of NFM's enterprise architecture strategy, target-state direction, principles, and multi-year architecture roadmap in alignment with business strategy and technology priorities
• Collaborate: Work with the CIO, General Managers, senior business leaders, and technology leaders to translate business strategy, strategic initiatives, and business capabilities into technology direction and architectural priorities
• Govern: Guide enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards, patterns, guardrails, and decision practices that promote consistency while allowing appropriate flexibility within delivery teams
• Facilitate: Lead architecture reviews and decision forums for significant technology initiatives, ensuring cross-domain impacts, enterprise standards, security, resiliency, data, integration, supportability, cost, and lifecycle considerations are addressed early
• Coordinate: Provide functional architecture leadership across solution architects assigned to the Technology Solutions and Technology Operations divisions, creating consistency in methods, expectations, documentation, and enterprise alignment
• Align: Collaborate with both General Managers and their solution architects to resolve cross-domain architecture questions, dependencies, ownership gaps, and design decisions that span organizational boundaries
• Modernize: Partner with the CIO and General Managers to identify and prioritize enterprise transformation opportunities, including legacy retirement, platform simplification, technical-debt reduction, integration improvement, cloud evolution, and technology lifecycle needs

Your work will directly impact our ability to help people create a lifestyle they love, for the people they love—because that’s what we love.

Qualifications: Can You Check These Boxes?

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, a related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of progressively responsible technology experience, including significant experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or comparable cross-functional technology leadership
• 7+ years of architecture experience with demonstrated success designing and influencing complex enterprise solutions across multiple technology domains.
• Demonstrated experience building, maturing, or leading enterprise architecture practices, standards, governance, reference architecture, roadmaps, and technology decision processes
• Broad working knowledge across application architecture, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, identity, DevOps, reliability, and emerging technology concepts; deep specialization in every domain is not required.
• Demonstrated experience translating business strategy and capabilities into target-state architecture, technology roadmaps, modernization priorities, and investment recommendations
• Experience leading architecture reviews, workshops, complex design discussions, and technology evaluations involving multiple business and technical stakeholders
• Strong understanding of solution evaluation and build-versus-buy decisions, including business value, total cost, architecture, integration, security, supportability, vendor considerations, and long-term maintainability
• Experience influencing senior leaders and technical teams without relying on direct reporting authority; proven ability to build alignment across organizational boundaries and resolve competing perspectives
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language for senior and executive audiences
• Strong analytical thinking, systems thinking, judgment, negotiation, and problem-solving skills; ability to work effectively through ambiguity and make recommendations when information is incomplete
• Experience with architecture frameworks and methods such as TOGAF, capability-based planning, reference architecture, technology standards, or architecture decision records preferred; relevant architecture certifications are a plus
• Retail or other complex multi-location enterprise experience preferred
• Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record; ability to travel between NFM locations as business needs require
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the USA on a full-time basis. NFM will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
• Ability to work nights, weekends, early mornings, or provide leadership support outside normal business hours when significant business or technology needs require
• Pre-employment screening includes, but isn’t limited to, criminal background check

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Benefits: What’s in It for You?

• Same day pay - access to your earned pay on-demand, when you need it the most
• Competitive pay - generous annual increases up to 7%
• Inclusive culture – Because everyone who works or shops at NFM should feel right at home
• Health, dental, vision, life Insurance, short and long term disability
• Paid holidays (upon hire) and paid time off (after 90 days)
• Staff discount on merchandise (Collectively, NFM staff have saved almost $2 million on purchases in the last 12 months)
• Virtual and in-person career development opportunities at all levels
• Paid community volunteer opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• You’ll start saving for your retirement immediately in NFM’s 401(k) and you’re eligible for company match after one year. NFM’s 401(k) also offers Berkshire Stock as an investment option

Nebraska Furniture Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer