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.

Why This Role Matters

Pampered Chef is in the middle of a major modernization journey across our digital ecosystem. Our platforms power a community of entrepreneurs who build real income and opportunity, and the technology behind that experience is evolving fast.

We’re looking for a Chief Enterprise Architect who can see the big picture, connect business priorities to technical strategy, and build the architecture that will scale our future. This role shapes how we design, integrate, secure, and evolve our core platforms, while developing the architects and technical leaders who make it real.

If you are energized by guiding modernization at scale, building cloud-first strategies, and elevating architectural thinking across teams, this role gives you real influence, organizational visibility, and the opportunity to shape foundational change.

What You’ll Lead

The enterprise architecture vision, roadmap, and governance framework

• A team of Systems Architects, including mentorship, career growth, and alignment to strategy
• Architectural decision-making across eCommerce, integrations, cloud, and data platforms
• Cross-functional partnership with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Executive leadership
• The modernization of legacy systems into scalable, composable, API-first and event-driven platforms

What Success Looks Like

A clear architectural direction and roadmap understood across business and technical teams

• Modernization milestones delivered across cloud infrastructure, integrations, and application platforms
• Strong alignment between product strategy, engineering execution, and enterprise architecture standards
• A visible improvement in platform scalability, performance, resiliency, and data fluidity
• A high-performing Systems Architecture team with a shared architectural philosophy and clear ownership

Platform & Technology Landscape

We are evolving from legacy systems toward a modular, cloud-based, API-first, event-driven ecosystem. Our environment spans:

Core Platforms: eCommerce, Salesforce, Oracle ERP, CommerceTools, custom applications
Cloud: Azure (preferred background), AWS also in use for select components
Data & Integration: Real-time data flows, event streaming, integration middleware, Customer 360 initiatives
Engineering Practices: DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability and performance monitoring

You will shape how these platforms interact, scale, and evolve.

Why You’ll Love This Role

You will define the architecture that drives our next chapter of digital growth

• You will be a key advisor to senior leadership with real influence on strategic decisions
• You will guide modernization that has visible, enterprise-wide impact
• You will build and mentor a technical community that values learning, collaboration, and craftsmanship
• You will work in an environment that wants architectural leadership, not just architectural documentation

What We’re Looking For

12+ years in enterprise architecture, solution design, or senior technical leadership

• Experience leading architecture in complex enterprise environments (eCommerce ideal)
• Proven success guiding organizational-scale modernization or cloud transformation
• Strong architectural experience across APIs, cloud platforms, event-driven design, and data architecture
• Ability to lead through influence, coach technical talent, and communicate effectively across audiences

Career Path

This role is positioned for long-term growth and strategic influence. The CEA will be a key voice in shaping technology investments and organizational transformation, with increased visibility and scope as modernization advances.

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.

Learn more about this Employer on their Career Site