Pampered Chef

Our Company

Pampered Chef, a Berkshire Hathaway company, was founded in 1980 by Doris Christopher to inspire confidence and creativity in the kitchen. The company provides innovative, high-quality kitchen tools and cooking solutions that make everyday meal preparation easier and more enjoyable. Pampered Chef empowers home cooks with its product line, which includes cookware, bakeware, cutlery, small appliances, pantry items, and kitchen gadgets designed with functionality and style.

Operating through a direct sales model, Pampered Chef works with a network of independent consultants who host cooking experiences in person and virtually. These experiences showcase the brand's products and provide valuable tips and inspiration for creating memorable meals. This model fosters personalized customer engagement and creates a strong sense of community.

As a purpose-driven organization, Pampered Chef is committed to sustainability and social responsibility. The company integrates eco-friendly practices into its products and operations, actively reduces waste, and supports charitable initiatives to positively impact local communities.

For more information, please visit www.pamperedchef.com.

Purpose of the Role:

The Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA) at Pampered Chef is a strategic leadership role responsible for defining and evolving the company’s enterprise architecture, aligning technology initiatives with business priorities, and driving digital innovation across the organization. You’ll be accountable for developing scalable, secure, and resilient architecture across eCommerce, integrations, data, and cloud infrastructure. Acting as a bridge between business strategy, digital product strategy, and technology delivery, you will partner closely with Digital Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, Security and executive leadership to guide our modernization journey. In addition to your strategic responsibilities, you will directly lead and develop a team of Systems Architects—helping them grow, align their work to enterprise priorities, and elevate architectural thinking across the organization.

Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, roadmap, and governance model.
• Align architecture strategy with company goals—supporting growth, innovation, and operational efficiency.
• Lead the transformation of legacy systems to modern cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures.
• Monitor and assess technology trends and disruptions, recommending strategic initiatives and opportunities to build on top of existing digital frameworks.

Technical & People Leadership

• Directly lead, mentor, and develop a team of Systems Architects, ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture goals and fostering technical excellence.
• Establish and lead architecture governance, principles, and standards across domains.
• Partner with engineering leaders to ensure scalability, quality, and security are built into every layer of the stack.
• Promote a strong technical community through coaching, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

Modernization & Platform Strategy

• Spearhead modernization of legacy systems to cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures.
• Oversee the rationalization and simplification of applications, data, and integrations across systems (e.g., Salesforce, Oracle ERP, AWS, CommerceTools etc.).
• Champion data strategy and architecture, enabling real-time data flows, ML/AI use cases, and a robust Customer 360 view.

Collaboration & Influence

• Act as a strategic advisor to the CTO and executive leadership team, guiding technology investments and roadmap decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Digital Product, UX, Data, Security, and Infrastructure to shape cohesive, customer-centric platforms.
• Effectively communicate architectural vision and progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Performance, Quality & Innovation

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to refactor, modernize, or replace legacy components.
• Define architectural KPIs and implement monitoring systems for performance, uptime, and scalability.
• Encourage innovation by piloting emerging tech, frameworks, and design patterns that advance our platform

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in software architecture, solution design, and technical leadership.
• Proven experience leading technical teams, including direct oversight of architects or senior engineers.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple enterprise domains, including eCommerce, SaaS, cloud platforms, and data systems.
• Proven success in guiding digital modernization or cloud transformation efforts at scale.

Technical & Leadership Expertise:

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure preferred), SaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, microservices, and event-driven design.
• Experience integrating modern and legacy technologies (e.g., Node.js, AngularJS, MongoDB, Oracle, Java).
• Deep understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring solutions.
• Excellent leadership, coaching, and performance management skills with a focus on developing talent and building technical communities.

Compensation and Benefits:

The anticipated salary range for this position starts at $195,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications. This role is eligible for performance-based bonus based on individual and company performance.

This position includes a comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company-paid life insurance with additional voluntary coverage options
• Disability insurance
• Additional voluntary benefits
• 401k match
• Flex PTO
• Paid Parental leave
• 30%+ discount on Pampered Chef Products and product giveaways

Pampered Chef currently follows a hybrid schedule at the headquartered office in Addison, IL. The expectation is for employees to be in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday every week.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Pampered Chef is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.