NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Principal Solution Architect. This role is part of Enterprise Architecture & Platforms, Enterprise Architecture team will partner and engage with business and technology leaders cross all the business functions within the enterprise in planning, creating, maintaining, and executing a capability roadmap aligned to the overall company and solution strategies to ensure that the people, process, data insights/information, and technology needs are accurately captured and planned for short, medium, and long-term execution.
The candidate needs to have a strong experience and understanding of both Relational and Non- Relational databases, hands on experience on data ware housing platforms, ETL tools, attention to details, exposure to cloud platforms, strong verbal, and written communication skills, and be self- motivated and operates with a high sense of urgency and a high level of integrity. Preferable experience in Retail and e-commerce domain.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll be working with the Enterprise Architecture team and perform the following tasks:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business requirements and develop data and AI solutions that meet those needs.
• Determine and Architect the data and Gen AI strategy.
• Ensure that all data and AI solutions are scalable, secure, and compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Standardize the process of data collection, storage, transformation, distribution, and usage.
• Ensures adherence to government regulations and guidelines for technological systems and safeguarding of data.
• Partner with Application, Data and Analytics Engineering leadership to establish a database architecture plan across multiple solution areas.
• Own and author conceptual data models and align and review logical data models, API definitions and analytical data products for consistency and completeness.
• Architect and design solutions for data quality, reliability, and data governance.
• Embrace and influence technology platform thinking and drive architecture principles of data security, scale, uptime, and reliability
• Contribute to and implement the data management for enterprise information.
• Demonstrate a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical timelines, cost, and risks
• Contribute to architecture guiding principles, development standards, training and hiring

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH

This role is part of the Enterprise Architecture team within Enterprise Architecture & Platforms.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Business Information Management
• 6+ years providing design leadership to technical, business & cross-functional teams
• 8+ years in hands-on experience in data analysis, modeling, data engineering, or analytics
• Strong understanding of data management technologies, including data warehousing, big data, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Strong understanding of Gen AI and machine learning technologies, including natural language processing, and predictive analytics.
• Strong Experience with Big Data and Data Lake systems.
• Strong Experience in building Enterprise Scale APIs.
• Strong understanding of integration technologies including APIs, data formats and messaging protocols.
• Strong experience in building end-to-end data view with focus on integration
• A solid understanding and experience with data APIs, data warehousing.
• Demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence management skills - ability to work cooperatively at all levels in matrix environment.
• Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills with ability to facilitate technology strategy, requirements, and architecture conversations with all stakeholders (management, business users, and technology resources)
• Exposure to retail and e-commerce domain will be an additional advantage.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. NIKE, Inc. is
committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.