Director, Data Architecture
Broomfield, CO, US, 80021
At Crocs, Inc., every career offers a chance to make a real impact. No two journeys look the same. And that's exactly how we like it. Whether you’re welcoming customers into our stores, collaborating with global teams at our headquarters, or keeping operations moving at our distribution centers, your impact is real and valued. At Crocs, Inc. you’re not expected to fit a mold. You’re encouraged to break it and create something better.
Overview
The Director, Data Architecture for Crocs, Inc. is responsible for bringing an enterprise architecture perspective to data decisions and solutions across Crocs. Working closely with Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, business stakeholders, and analytics teams, this role helps ensure data solutions support business objectives while balancing speed of execution with long-term scalability, sustainability, simplicity, and reuse. The Director provides architectural leadership across the Enterprise Data organization, with particular focus on enterprise information and domain architecture, cross-domain design patterns, and architecture governance.
What You'll Do
- Partners with business stakeholders, analytics teams, and technology teams to bring an architectural perspective to data decisions and develop approaches that drive measurable business value.
- Define and evolve enterprise data architecture in collaboration with Business Intelligence and Data Engineering leaders, balancing the ability to execute efficiently today with long-term scalability, maintainability, flexibility, and reuse.
- Shape enterprise information and domain architecture standards, including cross-domain design patterns and shared approaches that promote consistency, interoperability, and effective use of data across Crocs.
- Partner with the Director of Business Intelligence to ensure enterprise data solutions effectively support reporting, analytics, self-service, and evolving business requirements.
- Partner with the Director of Data Engineering on platform and solution architecture, combining architectural and engineering perspectives to develop approaches that are practical, scalable, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise objectives.
- Establish and facilitate enterprise data architecture governance, including an Architecture Review Board that surfaces conflicts and tradeoffs, builds alignment, and enables decisions for significant data, analytics, and platform initiatives.
- Partners across the Enterprise Data organization to simplify the data ecosystem, improve interoperability, and accelerate business value through better architectural decisions.
What You'll Bring to the Table
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
- 8+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures, data platforms, analytics ecosystems, or data-intensive solutions.
- Strong understanding of modern data architecture concepts, including information and domain architecture, data modeling, integration approaches, governance, metadata, and analytics enablement.
- Proven ability to solve complex business problems through thoughtful data and technology solution design.
- Experience balancing execution speed and near-term needs with long-term architectural sustainability, scalability, flexibility, and maintainability.
- Strong collaboration and influence skills, with experience partnering across engineering, analytics, business, and technology teams to shape decisions and build alignment.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills, including the ability to surface tradeoffs, navigate conflict, and guide architectural discussions across diverse stakeholders.
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We accept applications on an ongoing basis.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability, or any other classification protected by law.
Title: Director, Data Architecture
Salary or Pay Range: $180,000 - $200,000
Pay offered will vary based on job-related factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities.
At Crocs, Inc. we believe in the power of a blend of in-person and virtual collaboration to drive creativity and strengthen relationships. Your participation in this flexible schedule plays a key role in building a connected and successful team. In-office requirements vary by our work personas: Resident (5 days), Collaborator (4 days), Connector (2-3 days), Explorer (fully remote). This role has been aligned to the Explorer persona.
This organization participates in E-Verify.
This position is eligible to participate in a company incentive program.
This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
The application window is 45 days, but applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible after the posting date in order to ensure optimal consideration. The posting will be removed if the job is filled before the application window deadline.
Job Category: Corporate
Nearest Major Market: Denver