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Hours Full-time
Location Milpitas, CA
Milpitas, California

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Architect - Innovation

About Kohl’s - What’s Our Inspiration?

Many people think of Kohl’s as just a brick and mortar retail chain. The truth is, we have developed an omni-channel approach to reaching our customers through our stores, online and mobile experiences. Our main source of inspiration has always been our customers, our associates and our drive to be the most engaging retailer in America.

Why Kohl’s Information Technology?

At Kohl’s, our mission is, “ To inspire and empower families to lead more fulfilled lives .” That statement is also true of the culture and our 1,000+ person technology team. We want to be the most engaging retailer out there while offering you opportunities to: have a flexible work schedule, work with some of the newest technologies, have clear career paths and have the ability to make an impact in the work that you do every day (not to mention great employee discounts). With a 1 billion dollar investment in technology over the next 3 years, innovation is at the heart of everything that we do.

What Will You Be Doing?

Serve as an Architect on our Innovation team who designs and provides governance of large scale technology solutions that deliver business value across the organization, continuously improving time to market. Creates road maps that translate business requirements into technology solutions. Specifies IT hardware and software plans and develops implementation roadmaps. Ensures compliance of application and technical infrastructure development with company and industry standards. Influences future systems architecture. Assesses emerging technologies for application to Kohl's initiatives and provides technical expertise for next generation initiatives.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

supports the architecture, designing and governance of large scale technology solutions that deliver business value across the organization, continuously improving time to market


  • Supports singular features or applications


  • Demonstrates knowledge of solutions within assigned domain


  • Designs and deploys assigned segments of enterprise operating environments


  • Develops architecture for current business solutions, accounting for future business needs


  • Serves as a resource to deployment and support teams after launch
What We’re Looking For:


  • Deep passion for innovation, learning and technology


  • Hands on tinkerer comfortable with learning new technologies and comfortable with ambiguity in requirements.


  • Strong organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills


  • 2+ years of experience in architecture development


  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or
    related field
Technology Requirements:


  • Hands on hardware development or system integration experience with robotics and embedded systems


  • 3-5 years iOS or Android or Windows mobile hands on development OR Web based Front end development - Angular, Html-CSS or Javascript


  • 3-5 years Backend development stacks based on- Node/java/lamp/ruby/python/php


  • 5+ years Extensive debugging experience especially memory leaks, threading issues, networking issues


  • 3-5 years experience working on Networking protocols - TCP/IP/HTTP/Chat protocol/WebRTC


  • 1-2 years End to end system architecture development expertise


  • DB/Big Data technologies - mongo/cassandra/nosql/mysql/hadoop/cloudera/mapr etc


  • 1-2 years Hands on development in one or more of the following fields (Desired to have)


    • Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality


    • Wearables


    • Robotics


    • Machine Learning


    • Latest innovation technologies like 3D/4D printing, Wireless charging and the like


    • Hardware /pcb design and development