Enterprise Architect - Commercial

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers

Job Description

Principal Enterprise Architect – Commercial Applications

Purpose

Lead enterprise architecture for Commercial and customer-facing digital capabilities across Sales, Trade Promotion, Key Account Management, Customer Engagement, Commercial Analytics, EDI, and related enterprise integrations.

This role will define current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture; guide platform modernization; support application rationalization; and ensure technology investments align with business capability needs across Commercial, Marketing, Product, Data, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Finance, and Enterprise Technology teams.

Key Responsibilities

Business Architecture

• Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Product, Data, Supply Chain, Finance, Customer Service, and Technology stakeholders to translate business strategy into enterprise technology capabilities.
• Define and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and capability-to-application alignment across Commercial and Digital platforms.
• Identify capability gaps, overlaps, duplication, and modernization opportunities across the Commercial technology landscape.
• Support capability-based planning and investment prioritization for Commercial, CRM, EDI, Trade Promotion, Forecasting, Analytics, and integration platforms.

Architecture Strategy

• Define current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture for Commercial and Digital applications.
• Develop multiyear technology roadmaps aligned to business priorities, enterprise standards, and transformation programs.
• Establish architecture principles, reference architectures, and reusable patterns for Commercial platforms, EDI, data, and integration capabilities.
• Support strategic planning, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization.
• Provide architecture leadership for platform modernization, simplification, and transformation initiatives.

Portfolio Ownership

Own architecture direction for platforms and capabilities including:

• CRM and Account Management
• Salesforce ecosystem, including TPM, KAM, and CRM capabilities
• Trade Promotion Management
• Sales Forecasting and Planning platforms
• EDI platforms and B2B customer/vendor integration capabilities
• Customer Master and Commercial Data platforms
• Commercial Analytics and Reporting platforms
• ERP integration touchpoints
• Related SaaS, data, middleware, API, cloud, and enterprise integration platforms

Transformation & Modernization

• Drive application rationalization and simplification across the Commercial and Digital technology landscape.
• Define transition architectures and phased migration roadmaps for legacy modernization.
• Support ERP, Salesforce, EDI, analytics, and commercial platform transformation initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technology duplication, improve data quality, simplify integration complexity, and enhance business agility.
• Guide modernization of legacy integrations, including batch, file-based, EDI, middleware, API, event-driven, and cloud-native integration patterns.

Data, EDI & Integration Architecture

• Define architecture for Customer Master, Commercial Data, Trade Promotion Data, Forecasting Data, Account Data, EDI transaction data, and Analytics Data.
• Guide enterprise integration strategy across APIs, events, batch, middleware, EDI, managed file transfer, data lake, SaaS, and cloud-native integration patterns.
• Define and govern B2B integration patterns for customers, distributors, retailers, brokers, and external partners.
• Provide architecture guidance for EDI transactions such as purchase orders, order acknowledgements, invoices, advance ship notices, remittance advice, product/catalog data, and related commercial documents.
• Ensure data and integration designs support scalability, reliability, security, compliance, monitoring, traceability, and operational resilience.
• Partner with Integration, Data, Security, Infrastructure, ERP, and Engineering teams to ensure end-to-end architecture quality.

Governance

• Lead architecture reviews, solution design reviews, and design governance forums.
• Review and approve solution architectures for alignment with enterprise standards.
• Create and maintain architecture decision records, standards, patterns, and technology assessments.
• Govern architecture decisions across Commercial platforms, Salesforce, ERP integrations, EDI, data platforms, and analytics solutions.
• Promote reusable, scalable, secure, and well-governed architecture patterns across the enterprise.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Domain Architecture, or Lead Solution Architecture roles.
• Strong experience with Commercial, CRM, Sales Forecasting, Customer, EDI, or Digital platform architecture.
• Architecture experience within Salesforce, including TPM, KAM, CRM, or customer-facing platforms.
• Experience with ERP and Sales Forecasting application integrations.
• Experience with EDI platforms, B2B integrations, managed file transfer, middleware, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of enterprise application portfolio management and application rationalization.
• Experience defining data architecture, master data ownership, and integration architecture across complex enterprise landscapes.
• Proven ability to create current-state, target-state, and transition-state architecture views.
• Experience leading architecture governance, design reviews, and cross-functional architecture alignment.
• Experience partnering with business and technology stakeholders across Commercial, Data, Integration, ERP, Security, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams.

Required Skills

• Enterprise Architecture and Domain Architecture
• Business Capability Mapping
• Capability-Based Planning
• Application Portfolio Management
• CRM and Commercial Platform Architecture
• Salesforce Platform Architecture
• Trade Promotion and Key Account Management Architecture
• ERP Integration Architecture
• EDI and B2B Integration Architecture
• Data and Information Architecture
• Master Data Management Concepts
• API, Event-Driven, Batch, Middleware, EDI, and File-Based Integration Patterns
• SaaS Platform Architecture
• Cloud and Data Platform Awareness
• Architecture Governance
• Technology Roadmap Development
• Executive Communication and Stakeholder Management

Preferred Experience

• Consumer Products, Retail, FMCG, Manufacturing, Digital Commerce, or Distribution experience.
• Salesforce certifications.
• Experience working in Global Capability Centers or global enterprise technology organizations.
• Experience with platforms such as Anaplan, ERP, PIM, DAM, CDP, Marketing Automation, Integration Platform as a Service, EDI gateways, or Managed File Transfer platforms.
• Familiarity with Commercial capabilities such as Sales Forecasting, Account Planning, Trade Promotion, Trade Spend, Customer Engagement, Customer Service, EDI order-to-cash flows, and Commercial Analytics.
• Exposure to TOGAF, capability-based planning, architecture repositories, or architecture governance frameworks.
• Experience with customer, retailer, distributor, broker, or third-party partner integration models.