We are Builders FirstSource, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You’ll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.
We are Builders FirstSource, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You’ll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.
The Principal Enterprise Architect will act as a Senior technology generalist. The ideal candidate should possess the following key attributes:
- Ability to architect technology solutions that drive and support strategic business processes, ensuring the solutions are comprehensive, robust, scalable, and aligned around core business needs
- Desire to share EA's vision to bring technology thought leadership and build collaborative relationships with business and IT teams based on integrity and clarity of purpose.
- Advocates for the reduction of technical debt associated with specific business outcomes
- Evaluates and recommends technologies that solve business challenges, enhance customer experiences, and drive competitive advantage
- Actively collaborates and communicates across the BFS organization; acts as a technology evangelist, innovator and change agent
This role requires interaction at multiple levels, including working with frontline teams, corporate representatives, IT owners and BFS leadership. Ideal candidate will be focused across all layers of technology including solution, application, cloud, data and security architectures. This person is also responsible for technical mentoring other EA team and IT peers.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Contribute to and execute on IT strategy to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Maintain a holistic view of the organization’s strategy, processes, information, and technology assets.
- Leads architectural efforts for large and complex projects (e.g., a project module or existing technology map review) or complex components of projects
- Designs and implements short and long-term strategic goals for managing and maintaining systems and software
- Identifies gaps in technology and business process standards and resolve them
- Determines the proper technical architecture for proposed solutions
- Continuously expands knowledge on current and new technical solutions
- Designs architectural solution that aligns with overall product vision
- Leverages industry expertise to develop new system specifications, processes and technologies
- Designs architectural solution that aligns with overall product vision
- Develops systems interfaces and business application prototypes
- Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.
- Partner with business and technology subject experts to translate business requirements into technological solutions.
- Document varying levels of architecture, strategy, guidelines, and principles
- Coordinate, review and approve projects to ensure that they are compliant with architectural standards, policies, and guidelines.
- Present to stakeholders on how architectural options will meet their needs.
- Monitor and analyze industry, technology, and market trends to determine their potential impact or application for the organization.
- Participate in ERP strategy decisions and provide ERP consulting within IT teams.
- Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business, and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.
- Conduct research and Proofs of Concept on emerging technologies in support of anticipated development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.
Supervisory Responsibilities
None
MINIMUM REQUIREMENT
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; master’s degree preferred
- Twelve (12) + years hands-on experience working as a Technology/Application/Solution Architect implementing medium to large scale initiatives
- Three (3) or more years of experience in architecting and deploying software solutions in Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS and supporting cloud solutions or similar virtualized environments.
- Proven experience in architectural: Design and analyze the current and future state architectural designs, provide the best practices, recommendations and related value propositions
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with stakeholders to ensure the architecture meets business needs and IT requirements.
- Package Selection & Technology Assessment: Maintain a thorough understanding of emerging technologies, trends, and techniques, and assess their relevance to the organization
- Be a role model to internal and external teams via facilitation and creation of architecture documents and artifacts
- Support the risk management process by identifying and assessing potential risks associated with IT investments and recommending mitigation strategies
- Experience implementing and maintaining SAP ERP systems, including interfacing with other SaaS and PaaS services/providers.
- Experience with cloud-based security, networking, and storage.
- Experience with operational optimization of cloud environments, including data replication, disaster recovery, logging, monitoring, and performance improvement.
- Experience in IT architecture, solution design, integration patterns and system implementation models
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills
- Established strategic and critical analysis skills
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
COMPETENCIES
- Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
- Technical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
- Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives.
- Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations.
- Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.
- Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments of internal and external customers and needs of the market.
- Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggests improvements to current ways of working.
BFS COMPETENCIES - Business and Financial Acumen
- Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis
- Teaches business and financial acumen to others.
- Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money.
- Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.
- Understands customer sales and engagement.
- Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise.
- Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.
- Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.
- Results Driven
- Holds self and others accountable.
- Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver.
- Manages competing priorities effectively.
- Demonstrates appropriate urgency.
- Drives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values.
- Embraces and follows best practices.
- Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.
- Strategic Thinking and Decision Making
- Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner.
- Balances short-and-long term priorities
- Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking.
- Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.
- Servant Leadership
- Demonstrates humility by putting others first.
- Builds trust-based relationships.
- Leads by example with kindness and respect.
- Collaborates well across all areas of the business.
- Advocates for others
- Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.
- Demonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same.
- Emotional Intelligence
- Demonstrates situational awareness – knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations.
- Demonstrates self-awareness – understands strengths and weaknesses.
- Demonstrates empathy – puts themselves in other’s shoes.
- Assumes positive intent.
- Develops and Leads Others
- Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations.
- Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations.
- Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment.
- Empowers, motivates, and inspires others.
- Coaches and mentor others for their development.
- Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes.
- Growth Mindset
- Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes.
- Perseveres and champions growth, even in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or possible failure.
- Thinks like an owner with an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity.
- Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth.
- Sees possibilities over problems – actively seeks solutions.
- Innovation
- Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things.
- Continuously seeks to improve and simplify pain points in the business.
- Anticipates, embraces, and leads change.
- Develops and executes breakthrough strategies.
- Integrity
- Does the right thing even under challenging circumstances?
- Communicates with honesty.
- Consistently treats others fairly and equitably.
- Demonstrates reliability and does what they say they will do.
- Conducts tough conversations and delivers difficult messages with kindness and respect.
WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.
- Occasional travel may be required.
Pay Range: $140,625-190k
Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You’ll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore – all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS.
In addition to the base wage listed, this position is also eligible to earn an annual bonus subject to changes in plan design and documents and in accordance with applicable law. Eligibility and the amount of the bonus varies based on overall company success, thresholds met and other terms and conditions of the Company’s active bonus policy for the respective year.
At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. Our goal is simple — provide great plans that help you and your family to live happier, healthier and more secure lives. To view all our benefit offerings click here www.bldrbenefits.com.
Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.
In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Builders FirstSource, please call (214) 765-3990 or email: ADA.Accommodation@bldr.com. Please do not send resumes to this email address - it is intended only to be used to request an accommodation in submitting an application for a job opening.
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm
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Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You’ll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore – all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS.
In addition to the base wage listed, this position is also eligible to earn an annual bonus subject to changes in plan design and documents and in accordance with applicable law. Eligibility and the amount of the bonus varies based on overall company success, thresholds met and other terms and conditions of the Company’s active bonus policy for the respective year.
At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. Our goal is simple — provide great plans that help you and your family to live happier, healthier and more secure lives. To view all our benefit offerings click here www.bldrbenefits.com.
Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.
In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Builders FirstSource, please call (214) 765-3990 or email: ADA.Accommodation@bldr.com. Please do not send resumes to this email address - it is intended only to be used to request an accommodation in submitting an application for a job opening.
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm
Pay Transparency Provision - English/Spanish
