Employment Contract | Full-time | Flexible Location (EU) | Travel 20–40%
We welcome applications from candidates located in EU countries where Amer Sports maintains a legal employing entity. The role can be performed remotely from one of these locations and requires approximately 20–40% travel.
We're looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect (Director), Commerce Technologies (E-commerce, Retail).
Amer Sports is a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, powered by a community of people who share a passion for authenticity, impact, and excellence. We bring together leading brands, talented teams, and a culture built on collaboration. If you’re looking for an environment where you can make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.
Commerce is at the heart of how our brands connect with athletes and consumers around the world. As Senior Enterprise Architect, you will define and govern the north star architecture for Amer Sports' multi-brand commerce landscape — spanning D2C, B2B, and the commerce models of tomorrow — ensuring platform investments are aligned with a coherent long-term target state. If you thrive at the intersection of technology strategy, business impact, and cross-functional leadership, this is your opportunity to shape the future of commerce at a truly global sports company.
What you will be doing
Architecture Strategy & Target State
- Define and own the north star architecture for Amer Sports' commerce landscape, establishing the long-term target state across D2C (Retail and eCom), B2B, and emerging commerce models that guides platform investment and brand-level execution.
- Bridge business ambition and architecture decisions — translating commercial priorities into platform direction across the full omni-channel capability stack, and making explicit the technology trade-offs that shape strategic decisions around channel allocation, inventory positioning, and omni-channel experience.
Platform Governance & Composability
- Lead architecture governance for commerce platforms — owning standards, integration patterns, and design principles that ensure scalability, resilience, and adaptability across a multi-brand, multi-channel environment.
- Drive platform consolidation and composability across brands by identifying redundancy, defining shared commerce capabilities, and establishing reusable building blocks that balance brand autonomy with group-level efficiency.
Scalability & Resilience
- Champion decoupling, scalability, and resilience across the commerce stack — ensuring customer-facing experiences remain fast and robust under growing and spiky load, by governing architectural patterns that isolate failure, scale independently, and sustain performance across brands and channels.
Emerging Commerce & Innovation
- Shape the architecture response to emerging commerce models — including agentic commerce, B2B2C, and marketplace ecosystems, ensuring Amer Sports' platform landscape stays ahead of commercial evolution.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment
- Act as the primary architecture partner to Business Platforms — aligning platform design, application ownership, and architectural direction with the Business Platforms organization as the owner of the commerce application landscape.
- Collaborate with brand IT organizations across the portfolio — ensuring brand-specific commerce requirements are represented in architecture decisions and that group-level standards are carried into brand contexts across Arc'teryx, Salomon, Wilson, and beyond.
- Partner with Commercial leadership — ensuring the commerce platform architecture supports the customer-facing ambitions of the business, including personalization, loyalty, and omni-channel experience priorities.
You will report to the Head of Tech Strategy & Enterprise Architecture.
What you need to succeed
Experience
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise and solution architecture, with a strong focus on commerce platforms, digital channels, or omni-channel technology landscapes.
- Demonstrated experience in multi-brand or multi-entity environments, balancing platform standardization with brand-specific requirements.
- Proven delivery of commerce platform architecture in cross-functional settings — references evidencing effective cross-functional collaboration will be requested.
Technical Expertise
- Deep knowledge of commerce architecture across D2C, B2B, and omni-channel models, including experience with composable, headless as well as headed commerce architectures, and API-first, event-driven, and decoupled platform design.
- Strong understanding of customer data, identity, and CDP architectures, with practical architecture experience across commerce platforms (e.g., Shopify, commercetools, Salesforce Commerce, SAP CX), OMS (Fluent Commerce, Sterling), payment platforms, loyalty systems, and point of sales.
- Working knowledge of EA management and modeling tools (e.g., LeanIX, ArchiMate) and established architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent.
Education
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Informatics, or equivalent.
Languages
- Fluent English (written and spoken) is mandatory.
How You Work
- You operate at the intersection of Business Platforms, brand IT organizations, and Group Tech Strategy & EA — exercising architectural authority through collaboration, alignment, and influence rather than hierarchy.
- You build trust naturally, communicate with clarity across all levels — from platform teams to executive stakeholders — and take ownership of outcomes.
- You're curious, pragmatic, and motivated to create real business impact across a global, multi-brand environment.
What we consider a plus
- Familiarity with agentic and AI-driven commerce patterns.
- Experience with architecture continuity across large-scale platform programs.
- Background in consulting or a platform vendor environment.
- EA framework certifications (TOGAF, ArchiMate) or architecture certifications in relevant platforms (e.g., Salesforce, commercetools, SAP CX).
- German or additional European languages.
What’s in it for you
At Amer Sports, you’ll be part of a global community of people who care about what they do and how they do it. Across our teams and brands, we are driven by ambition, collaboration, and a shared purpose of elevating the world through sport.
- Work-life flexibility: Enjoy flexible working hours, hybrid work options, generous vacation entitlement, and the possibility to combine work and travel through workation days
- Health & active lifestyle support: Stay active with sports opportunities, access to an on-site fitness room, Wellpass membership, and JobRad bike leasing options.
- Financial and employee benefits: Benefit from employee product discounts, corporate partner offers, transportation support, free parking, and a company pension plan.
- Employee product benefits: Enjoy access to employee discounts on quality products from our iconic brands.
- Global collaboration: Work with diverse, international teams and collaborate across brands, functions, and markets, learning from different perspectives along the way.
- Access to a global network of leading brands: Work within a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, gaining exposure to different businesses, perspectives, and opportunities across Amer Sports.
- We’re in the game together: Join a culture built on trust, support, and shared responsibility, where progress is achieved together and success is celebrated as a team.
- Purpose‑driven environment: Be part of work that supports healthier, more active lives through our iconic sports and outdoor brands.
- Small teams, real impact: Contribute in small, trusted teams within a global company, where your ideas matter and your work can create real impact.
- Excellence in how we work: Join an environment where quality, innovation, and continuous improvement matter, and where people are encouraged to raise the bar in how work is done.
- Ambitious career development: Develop your skills through meaningful work, new challenges, and collaboration with experienced colleagues.
- Modern technologies and ways of working: Be part of teams that work with modern technologies and continuously evolve how we build, operate, and improve our digital solutions.
- IT: At Amer Sports, IT professionals have the chance to work on cutting-edge projects and implement advanced technologies, driving progress in a globally recognized company with prestigious brands.
What to expect from the recruitment process
- CV screening: Every CV is reviewed by a human.
- Phone screening: A conversation with Amer Sports’ Recruiter to discuss the role, our organization, and your expectations.
- Interviews: 4 rounds, including interviews with the hiring manager and prospective team.
- Feedback and decision: We aim to provide feedback throughout the process.
Interested?
Please submit your application via the application form. CVs sent by email will not be considered or processed.
If you have any questions or need clarification at any stage of the application process or during your journey with us, please don't hesitate to reach out to talentacquisition@amersports.com (HR). Apply and join us in striving for excellence at each step!
