Distinguished Architect

Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) has been the premier destination for luxury fashion and goods, superior service, and an elevated retail experience for more than a century. Today, 9,000 associates contribute to the success of NMG’s brands: Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Last Call, and Horchow. There are 38 full-line Neiman Marcus stores in cosmopolitan markets across the United States and a sophisticated digital platform that attracts shoppers worldwide. Bergdorf Goodman operates two stores in landmark locations on Fifth Avenue in New York City and BergdorfGoodman.com, catering to loyal luxury customers globally. NMG also owns five Last Call stores and Horchow.com, an e-commerce site that offers premium furniture and home decor.

As an organization, NMG is on a transformational journey to become the preeminent luxury customer platform. NMG continues to deliver the best integrated customer experience and has evolved the business to succeed in the ever-changing retail landscape. NMG is a relationship business. What differentiates the organization from other luxury retailers are its unique assets: a strong store footprint, the most knowledgeable associates, an engaging online experience, solid brand partnerships, innovative digital and in-store experiences, the most loyal luxury customer base, and a strong balance sheet.

Our customers will always be at the center of everything NMG does. The company continues to reinvest in new technologies that enhance the customer experience. NMG meets customers where they are. NMG’s goal is to offer customers a seamless experience across its stores, online, and remote digital selling.

NMG’s priority is to develop a highly engaged and high-performing team where everyone belongs. The business attracts and retains best-in-class talent through unique offerings provided to associates in addition to standard employer benefits. These include an innovative way of working, associate discounts on merchandise, tuition reimbursement, associate hardship fund, and paid time off to volunteer, to name a few.

As part of NMG’s Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) work, the organization is focused on driving its core value of being “All Heart.” NMG is also assessing its current environmental and social impact while developing a three-year plan to lead the luxury industry in its commitment and transparency to environmental and social sustainability. NMG strives to become an employer of choice, driven by a culture of Belonging. A dedicated team focuses on this journey, directly impacting how NMG conducts business throughout the workforce, workplace, and marketplace dimensions.

NMG has incredibly passionate and committed corporate and store associates. NMG offers associates an environment where everyone feels welcomed, nurtured, and empowered. Our associates are the heart of NMG. As an organization, NMG leads with love – love for customers, love for associates, and love for brand partners.

The Distinguished Architect is a director level position responsible for the data technology strategy, design and architecture of the enterprise and customer data capabilities, omni channel marketing and technology platform stack working closely with stakeholders across Marketing, Supply Chain and IT. 

In this role, you will architect and optimize use of the underlying data capabilities (Master Data Management, Customer Data Platform, Data Warehouse etc.) and the MarTech stack (Loyalty, promotions, campaigns, personalization, decisioning etc.) to enable a personalized Omni Luxury experience for our customers across channels (web, mobile, email, chat etc.).

If you consider yourself someone whom developers, leads, and architects want to work with, and you have the uncanny ability to drive a compelling long-term vision this is an opportunity to build modern cloud enabled applications. This role entails hands-on experience in cloud architectures (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) and requires deep interest and experience in software platforms.

You should have a background in both data architecture and integration architecture, along with a strong passion for customer focused analytics.

You will lead design discussions and mentor engineers on proper platform and application solutions. You will publish and present to technology leaders and business executives, providing thought leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Business, Product and Technology teams to craft architecture that enables business and technology vision.
• Ability to own architecture and influence strategic direction and vision for the future; perform in depth analysis of current state and create target state architecture, capability maturity roadmap and transition state architectures.
• Collaborate and partner with the Marketing teams to define and document the use cases, translating the marketing strategy, business capabilities into technical strategy, capabilities and architecture.
• Envision and design, modern MarTech stacks that utilize customer data to create a personalized targeted experience; develop a Personalization / decisioning engine architecture.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on MarTech topics and explore/research emerging marketing technologies and trends.
• Contribute in Enterprise architecture review board to establish architecture roadmaps, define and approve cross-functional design approach
• Capture, design, and communicate views of enterprise data at contextual, conceptual, and logical levels of abstraction.
• Be hands-on when needed to unblock the team - coding, code reviews, designs.
• Provide guidance on adoption of modern application paradigms including containers, microservices and event streaming.

Consulting, education and mentoring architects and leaders in modern application development, deployment