Principal Enterprise Architect

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At Levi's, we're transforming how we deliver and scale technology. Enterprise Architecture plays a critical role in this journey, modernizing our application landscape to enable speed, innovation, and scalability.

We're looking for a Principal Enterprise Architect with an engineering background to help accelerate technology roadmaps while maintaining strategic alignment. You'll lead modernization across SaaS platforms, COTS products, and custom-built applications, define enterprise domain models, and advance our API-led and AI-enabled platform strategy.

You'll partner across product management, engineering, Data & AI/ML, infrastructure, and security to evolve our architecture and engineering practices. Through both strategic vision and hands-on engagement, you'll drive modern design standards, reusable components, and scalable solutions that fuel growth.

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting into the Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture.

About the Job

• Develop the enterprise architecture strategy aligned with business and product goals, focusing on modernization, scalability, security, cost efficiency, and AI adoption.
• Influence portfolio and roadmap planning to drive software rationalization and reduce technical debt.
• Define and promote enterprise-wide standards and best practices for APIs, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures.
• Ensure systems follow principles of simplicity, scalability, security, and resilience, with clear ownership across domains.
• Lead technology evaluations balancing technical fit, cost, risk, and maintainability to inform sound technology decisions.
• Embed privacy, security, and compliance best practices into all solution designs.
• Stay current on emerging AI tools and frameworks, assessing feasibility and leading proofs of concept.
• Champion a culture of learning, experimentation, and architectural excellence through hands-on engagement.
• Communicate architectural strategy and technical concepts persuasively, linking decisions to business value and driving organizational alignment.

About You

• 12+ years if experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years at a Principal Engineer or equivalent level and a track record in a senior architecture role.
• Operating Model Transformation: Experience supporting the shift to a product- and platform-based operating models, with an understanding of how architecture supports organizational agility.
• Experience with domain modeling and using domain-driven approaches to align business and technology.
• Expertise in designing API-led, modular, and composable cloud-native architectures using microservice and event-streaming platforms.
• Familiarity with modern AI technologies, data platforms, and how to apply them pragmatically in enterprise settings.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP), event-driven design, API management, and other modern integration patterns.
• Proven track record driving modernization efforts that reduced costs, delivered value and accelerated time-to-market.
• Broad exposure to technology solutions and business processes across ecommerce, retail, supply chain, product creation, HR, finance, etc.
• Translate complex technical and data concepts into actionable business insights, engaging senior team members to create alignment and influence outcomes.
• Excellent facilitation, experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners across technology and business domains.
• Comfortable shaping direction iteratively and balancing long-term vision with short-term delivery.

This role can be either a hybrid position based in our San Francisco, CA headquarters, or a fully US-Remote role. You will be expected in office 3 days per week typically Tuesday-Thursday. Note, time in office can vary depending on needs.

The expected starting salary range for this role is $144,800- $219,300 per year. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on the location of the role. The amount a particular employee will earn within the salary range will be based on factors such as relevant education, qualifications, performance and business needs.

Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) offers a total rewards package that includes base pay, incentive plans, 401(k) matching, paid leave, health insurance, product discounts, and more designed to help you and your family stay healthy, meet your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits and incentive compensation vary depending upon the specifics of the role; details relating to a specific role will be made available upon request. Read more about our benefits here.

LS&Co. is an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome and value people from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences to make LS&Co. a collective success.

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