Your Role
Victoria’s Secret has embarked on technology initiatives that include not only applications and integrations for new business capabilities, but also transformational initiatives to support their evolving technology enterprise, and a comprehensive migration from on premise systems to cloud. Beyond these operating initiatives, the company is targeting a future vision focused on improving business resiliency and continuity. The combination of these objectives is monumental and herculean where talent, experience and leadership are paramount.
The person in this role will facilitate, support and/or contribute to one or more cross functional architecture teams comprised of members from areas such as but not limited to Digital Engineering, Security, and Physical Infrastructure. Works with the technical leads to establish integration of systems and accessibility of data supporting various interdependent business processes and functions. Focus is often on establishing and maintaining a leverageable platform to reduce business costs, improve time-to-market of products and services, improved product quality, and customer satisfaction. Strong leadership and execution for this effort is required to ensure business continuity while plotting the best course to migrate integrations and systems while ensure standard business operations are not impacted.
This role supports enabling consensus on the proper level and pace of change and integration of technologies. As with all our technical leads, this requires research into developing industry standards and technologies and company business trends, ensuring that proper questions are raised and answered by stakeholders to balance strategic integration issues with urgent business needs. This position helps resolve various architectural links and technology choices in the challenge of building the model and ensure that proper questions are raised and answered by stakeholders to balance integration issues with urgent business needs.
Why You Belong Here
At Victoria’s Secret & Co, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.
Your Impact
- Serve as an architecture and technology advisor in the enterprise for all business and IT users. Act as centralized touchstone in looking at the "big picture" and bridging across the various technology platforms to ensure continuity of direction, leveraging of company assets, best practices, and overall integration
- Plays a critical role in key planning sessions to advise and clarify capabilities, limitations, and trade-offs of established enterprise architectures and technology in general
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of enterprise’s business. Understand current and future needs of the business and align technology roadmap to deliver upon those needs
- Collaborate with the technology leadership and architecture group to assist with defining the technology roadmap for the company
- Ownership of ongoing communication with business technologists and consultants to build awareness of internal company/business trends, processes, activities, and locations
- Partners with leaders both on Technology and Product Teams to steer practices that impact engineering teams by ensuring technical stories key to the implementation of the technology roadmap are being prioritized and implemented according to the long-term roadmap
- Promotes a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering organization, encouraging experimentation, learning, and adaptation to drive innovation and excellence
- Facilitate the development of key deliverables including architectural diagrams that document project plans and production systems
- Leads enterprise-wide collaboration to foster a comprehensive understanding, develop documentation and standards, identify areas of opportunity, and chart a strategic path for continuous improvement
- Plays a pivotal role in enterprise-level projects, ensuring that teams adhere to established guardrails that align with the company’s IT standards and overall strategic direction
- Identifies areas for improvement in engineering processes and workflows, and develops strategies to optimize efficiency, quality, and productivity