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Get Access To All JobsOUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.
At Columbia, we are as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we are proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.
Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: “It's perfect. Now make it better.” As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.
We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.
And we believe in you.
ABOUT THE POSITION
Although we are an apparel and footwear focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear’s Digital Technology (CDT) teams enable an IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.
The Enterprise Integration Architecture team is at the heart of blueprinting the digital transformation of Columbia Sportswear, Mountain Hardware, Sorel, and prAna brands. We serve our business and technical partners through strategic integrated planning and end-to-end solutions to accelerate feature delivery for critical initiatives.
As a Principal Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be responsible for designing and evolving Columbia Sportswear’s integration and data movement architecture across enterprise platforms. You will work closely with engineering teams, product leaders, and other architects to deliver secure, scalable, and cost‑effective integrations that support critical business capabilities across Supply Chain, Planning, Product Creation, and Direct‑to‑Consumer (DTC) domains for our global brands.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for discovering and documenting opportunities for growth and efficiency, adopt a continuous learning environment, and provide strategic advantage through innovative solutions, storytelling, building collaborative and inclusive partnerships, and transitional architectures.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- Own integration architecture patterns including APIs, events, and data flows aligned to canonical domain models
- Design end‑to‑end integration solutions balancing scalability, resiliency, cost, and delivery timelines
- Ensure solution designs adhere to enterprise architecture principles and platform standards
- Scale organization’s data & integration literacy through the modeling and design of enterprise services and APIs, adhering to canonical domain models
- Engage business partners effectively to understand objectives, constraints, and outcomes, translating business needs into pragmatic integration and data architecture solutions
- Partner with engineering leaders to shape architectural plans aligned to product roadmaps
- Provide design guidance, design reviews, and hands‑on problem solving during delivery
- Advocate best practices for API design, eventing, and integration reliability
- Identify opportunities to simplify and modernize integration platforms
- Mentor and upskill teams on integration and data architecture patterns
- Engage with vendors to ensure solutions align with Columbia standards
YOU ARE
- A thought leader that is consultative in their approach
- An influencer that can drive common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams
- Passionate about cloud platform and solutions
- Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff
- A creative strategic thinker with the ability to solve complex problems; able to exercise independent judgment in a highly complex global environment using leading-edge technology and/or integrating diverse systems
- Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, negotiating and marketing skills to work with users, senior management, and external personnel on significant matters, often requiring coordinated activity across functional and organizational lines
YOU HAVE
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years increasingly responsible professional experience in technology-related field
- Demonstrated domain experience across Supply Chain, Planning, Product Creation, and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) business capabilities, supporting enterprise-scale platforms and integrations
- 5+ years in technology architect or engineering leadership roles providing design leadership to technical, business, & cross-functional initiatives
- Familiarity with enterprise-scale applications supporting critical product creation, supply chain, Direct To Consumer and corporate technology capabilities
- Demonstrated experience designing, delivering, and operating enterprise integrations across their full lifecycle (design, build, deployment, and ongoing operations)
- Experience with event‑driven architecture, async messaging, or streaming
- Familiarity with leading enterprise cloud/virtual architectures in AWS or Microsoft Azure
- Highly skilled at creating compelling architecture presentations covering enterprise scale vendor packaged applications, native cloud-based applications (custom or vendor managed), services and other applications
- Demonstrated influencing leadership skills expressed through teamwork, facilitation, active listening, as well as multi-modal communication (written, visualization, and verbal) with customers
- Strong team orientation and ability to thrive on virtual, international, cross-functional teams
- Experienced in facilitating meetings with multiple customers and technical staff, including building consensus, defining key decisions and solution options, and mediating compromises when necessary
- A passion for data-driven decision making supported through strong analytic skills, internal due diligence, market analysis, structuring hypotheses, and development of synthesized findings/recommendations
Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.
At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.
If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to AskHR@columbia.com with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.
OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.
At Columbia, we are as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we are proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.
Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: “It's perfect. Now make it better.” As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.
We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.
And we believe in you.
ABOUT THE POSITION
Although we are an apparel and footwear focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear’s Digital Technology (CDT) teams enable an IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.
The Enterprise Integration Architecture team is at the heart of blueprinting the digital transformation of Columbia Sportswear, Mountain Hardware, Sorel, and prAna brands. We serve our business and technical partners through strategic integrated planning and end-to-end solutions to accelerate feature delivery for critical initiatives.
As a Principal Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be responsible for designing and evolving Columbia Sportswear’s integration and data movement architecture across enterprise platforms. You will work closely with engineering teams, product leaders, and other architects to deliver secure, scalable, and cost‑effective integrations that support critical business capabilities across Supply Chain, Planning, Product Creation, and Direct‑to‑Consumer (DTC) domains for our global brands.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for discovering and documenting opportunities for growth and efficiency, adopt a continuous learning environment, and provide strategic advantage through innovative solutions, storytelling, building collaborative and inclusive partnerships, and transitional architectures.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- Own integration architecture patterns including APIs, events, and data flows aligned to canonical domain models
- Design end‑to‑end integration solutions balancing scalability, resiliency, cost, and delivery timelines
- Ensure solution designs adhere to enterprise architecture principles and platform standards
- Scale organization’s data & integration literacy through the modeling and design of enterprise services and APIs, adhering to canonical domain models
- Engage business partners effectively to understand objectives, constraints, and outcomes, translating business needs into pragmatic integration and data architecture solutions
- Partner with engineering leaders to shape architectural plans aligned to product roadmaps
- Provide design guidance, design reviews, and hands‑on problem solving during delivery
- Advocate best practices for API design, eventing, and integration reliability
- Identify opportunities to simplify and modernize integration platforms
- Mentor and upskill teams on integration and data architecture patterns
- Engage with vendors to ensure solutions align with Columbia standards
YOU ARE
- A thought leader that is consultative in their approach
- An influencer that can drive common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams
- Passionate about cloud platform and solutions
- Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff
- A creative strategic thinker with the ability to solve complex problems; able to exercise independent judgment in a highly complex global environment using leading-edge technology and/or integrating diverse systems
- Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, negotiating and marketing skills to work with users, senior management, and external personnel on significant matters, often requiring coordinated activity across functional and organizational lines
YOU HAVE
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years increasingly responsible professional experience in technology-related field
- Demonstrated domain experience across Supply Chain, Planning, Product Creation, and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) business capabilities, supporting enterprise-scale platforms and integrations
- 5+ years in technology architect or engineering leadership roles providing design leadership to technical, business, & cross-functional initiatives
- Familiarity with enterprise-scale applications supporting critical product creation, supply chain, Direct To Consumer and corporate technology capabilities
- Demonstrated experience designing, delivering, and operating enterprise integrations across their full lifecycle (design, build, deployment, and ongoing operations)
- Experience with event‑driven architecture, async messaging, or streaming
- Familiarity with leading enterprise cloud/virtual architectures in AWS or Microsoft Azure
- Highly skilled at creating compelling architecture presentations covering enterprise scale vendor packaged applications, native cloud-based applications (custom or vendor managed), services and other applications
- Demonstrated influencing leadership skills expressed through teamwork, facilitation, active listening, as well as multi-modal communication (written, visualization, and verbal) with customers
- Strong team orientation and ability to thrive on virtual, international, cross-functional teams
- Experienced in facilitating meetings with multiple customers and technical staff, including building consensus, defining key decisions and solution options, and mediating compromises when necessary
- A passion for data-driven decision making supported through strong analytic skills, internal due diligence, market analysis, structuring hypotheses, and development of synthesized findings/recommendations
Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.
At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.
If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to AskHR@columbia.com with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Integration Architect
Verify your degree aligns with the role
USCIS scrutinizes specialty occupation eligibility for Integration Architects. A degree in computer science, information systems, or software engineering maps cleanly. A business or unrelated degree weakens the petition, so document any bridge through coursework or certifications early.
Target employers with active LCA filings
Search DOL's OFLC Wage Search to confirm a company has filed Labor Condition Applications for integration or enterprise architecture roles. Prior LCA activity signals an established H-1B sponsorship process, reducing delays once you receive an offer.
Use Migrate Mate to filter sponsoring employers
Pull up Integration Architect listings on Migrate Mate to see which employers have verified H-1B filing history for this role. Filtering by sponsorship track record before applying saves time spent pursuing companies that won't file.
Benchmark your wage against the prevailing rate
Look up the Level II or III wage for your SOC code and work location using OFLC Wage Search before negotiating your offer. Your employer's LCA must certify at least that rate, so knowing it prevents offers that USCIS will flag during adjudication.
Clarify integration tool ownership in your offer letter
H-1B petitions for Integration Architects require evidence of a bona fide employer-employee relationship. An offer letter specifying the systems you'll own, middleware platforms, and reporting structure strengthens the I-129 filing and reduces the risk of a Request for Evidence.
File premium processing if your start date is fixed
USCIS premium processing upgrades adjudication to 15 business days. For Integration Architect roles tied to a product launch or go-live date, ask your employer to include it from the initial filing rather than upgrading after a delay has already occurred.
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Find Integration Architect JobsIntegration Architect H-1B Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Integration Architect role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. Integration Architect positions qualify because they normally require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, or a directly related field. USCIS evaluates whether the specific duties, such as designing API frameworks, managing middleware, and governing enterprise data flows, require that theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for Integration Architect positions?
Search Migrate Mate to browse Integration Architect listings filtered by employers with verified H-1B filing history. You can also cross-reference a company's past Labor Condition Applications through the DOL's OFLC disclosure data, which lists the job title, wage level, and worksite location for every certified LCA.
What documents should I have ready before an employer starts my H-1B petition?
Have your degree transcripts, diploma, and any credential evaluation ready before your employer engages an attorney. For Integration Architects, a detailed position description covering the systems, protocols, and platforms involved strengthens the specialty occupation argument. If your degree title doesn't map directly to the role, a credential evaluation from a NACES-member organization helps bridge the gap.
Can I switch Integration Architect jobs while on an H-1B without losing my status?
Yes, through H-1B portability under AC21. If your new employer files a new I-129 petition before your current H-1B expires and the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification, you can start working for the new employer once the petition receipt is issued, without waiting for full approval.
What wage level should an Integration Architect H-1B petition use?
Most Integration Architect roles are filed at DOL Wage Level III or IV, reflecting the specialized judgment, independent authority, and cross-system design responsibility the role carries. Filing at Level I or II for a senior integration role increases the likelihood of a USCIS Request for Evidence challenging whether the wage reflects the actual complexity of the position. Verify the applicable prevailing wage using the OFLC Wage Search before your employer submits the LCA.
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