Senior Principal, Enterprise Architect – Business Architecture

The Home Depot

. Guides business architecture design and adoption across multiple portfolios, product teams, and principal architects .

Posted 9/28/2026full-timeRemote • South Carolina • United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in business architecture disciplines, including capability modeling, value stream mapping, and journey mapping, while effectively influencing cross-functional teams and driving technology solutions. Proficient in Agile/Lean development environments and experienced in evaluating vendor solutions against enterprise standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Business Architecture ExpertiseAgile/Lean Development ExperienceCapability ModelingValue Stream MappingExperience with LeanIX and Signavio

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Hard Skills

Capability ModelingValue Stream MappingJourney MappingEnd-to-End Process DecompositionProgramming Language ProficiencyData Architecture UnderstandingAPIs and AutomationVendor EvaluationSaaS Solutions AssessmentCloud Resource Tracking

Soft Skills

Strong Written CommunicationInfluencing Without AuthorityLeadership and MentoringProblem-SolvingCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

LeanIXSignavio

Industry Keywords

Retail Industry Business ProcessesEnterprise ArchitectureIntegration StandardsCross-Functional Project ManagementTechnology Roadmaps

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Guides business architecture design and adoption across multiple portfolios, product teams, and principal architects
Accelerates decision speed and investment quality through domain expertise, architectural leadership, and communication of standards and reusable patterns
Defines and stewards the connective model tying customer and associate journeys, value streams, business capabilities, and end-to-end processes to solutions, applications, and data
Engages principal architects, product managers, and business partners to foster shared language, model literacy, and adoption of enterprise standards
Interfaces with third-party vendors to evaluate capability coverage, identify investment overlap, and drive interoperability and data-sharing fit
Supports 4–6 portfolios or capability domains
Leads portfolio-level Principal meetings for alignment, consistency, and knowledge sharing
Creates reusable foundational code elements and develops proofs of concept with new technologies
Tracks cloud-resource usage and drives cost-reduction opportunities
Acts as an escalation point for complex challenges, high-priority issues, and outages
Presents at and attends conferences and applies new technologies and concepts
Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports
Conducts annual and mid-year reviews and provides performance feedback
Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates talent
Defines technology solutions with a Distinguished Engineer and influences technology roadmaps
Removes roadblocks across large cross-functional projects and drives thought leadership and innovation
Fields questions from project, product, and support teams
Resolves technology disputes across local teams
Works with vendors to implement software feature enhancements
Evangelizes successful tooling and technology usage
Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time
Reports to various individuals and has 4–6 direct reports

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be eighteen years of age or older
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT
Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry
Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
7 years of relevant work experience
Bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
Deep fluency in business architecture disciplines: capability modeling, value stream mapping, journey mapping, and end-to-end process decomposition
Understanding of how business architecture maps to application and data architecture
Ability to influence without authority across business, product, and engineering leadership
Experience with EA and process tooling, such as LeanIX and Signavio
Comfort working with underlying data through APIs, queries, or automation
Strong written communication skills
Experience evaluating vendor and SaaS solutions against enterprise capability and integration standards
One field of expertise should include a programming language
Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
Mastery in assigned domains
Active participation in or leadership of professional groups affiliated with specific domains

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health care benefits
401K
ESPP
Paid time off
Success sharing bonus