Work Location Type: Hybrid 

 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

 

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

 

 Compensation

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $160,300.00  to $267,100.00.  This position is eligible for participation in our short-term incentive program in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan.

 

The range provided is not a guarantee of compensation.  The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.  The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above. 

 

Position Details:

We are looking for individuals who can solve challenging business problems through technology, engineering, and leadership. We are looking for a leader who is willing to be different, to be steps ahead of our competitors, and to meet our customers' needs.

 

As the Principal Technical Architect for the Pricing Domain (and eventually others), you and your fellow Architects will bring a systems-thinking perspective to guide interaction patterns both within and between your domains. Principal Technical Architects possess broad technical expertise and play a key role in technology strategy; identifying, designing, integrating and evolving capabilities that directly support their Business Domain.  They also support delivery teams, guiding them through lower-level design decisions.

 

You will look across business, data, applications, team structure, and technology to provide expertise and perspective on modern IT software practices. Additionally, you will partner with Product and Engineering Directors and Tech Leads, introducing new ideas, technologies, and design patterns for enterprise-wide adoption and distribution. While there may be occasional opportunities to co-develop features with technical leads or other senior engineering roles, your responsibilities will mostly lie beyond development, focusing on what should be developed and how it should be built.

 

You will report to the Director of  Architecture, Product Discovery and Pricing. This can be a hybrid/remote role based in our Chicago office.

 

You Will:

Lead architecture deliverables for the Pricing Domain and eventually other domains.

Help teams' architect and engineer solutions across multiple technologies and platforms.

Mentor Grainger technical leads, senior engineers, product leaders, engineering Managers

Influence the technology executive lead team to pursue technology strategies and architecture specific to Pricing

Research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where appropriate.

Lead the implementation of architectural standards, capabilities, and governance for Pricing.

Define capability and systems roadmap and key architectural tradeoffs across Pricing.

Inform multiple stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.

Define the conceptual, logical, and transitional architectures.

Participate in recruiting activities for senior technical talent.

Steer architecture decisions within the design and architecture review process.

 

You Have:

At least 12 years of industry experience in software engineering and architecture.

Experience with engineering patterns and multiple implementations (on-prem and cloud) technical expertise.

Bring a systems-thinking perspective, choosing the appropriate integration patterns between capabilities within their specific domain.

Experience in Event-driven, Cloud-native architectures, Data and Analytics Architectures (including Lakehouse), and API design.

Bachelor’s degree in business (or Management), Computer Science, Engineering, related disciplines, or equivalent work experience

  Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans

Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year

Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period

Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement

A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs

 

 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

 

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.

 

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