As Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for developing leading-edge digital solutions that span multiple functions, like Product, Engineering, QE, UX, MarTech, and Data. You will help shape technology strategy, roadmaps, and evolve and future-proof our platform. The ideal candidate will be motivated and proactive with a strong technical background, leadership, and communication skills, and a track record of delivering high-quality software.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the enterprise architecture strategy, roadmaps, and governance frameworks aligned with the retail business goals. Seek the buy-in of business and engineering stakeholders as necessary.
• Conduct research, analyze, design, and deliver enterprise architectures tailored for the retail industry, encompassing infrastructure, resiliency, security, governance, automation, and integration
• Evaluate new technologies and determine their applicability in delivering SaaS for digital retail operations
• Provide architectural guidance and collaboration across stakeholder organizations to ensure solutions meet the fashion retail industry requirements
• Lead cloud readiness assessments, application modernization initiatives, and cost-benefit analyses for retail systems, including resiliency and scalability.
• Design deployment architectures for enterprise services, user experience, and systems/applications operational excellence to achieve optimal performance, fault tolerance, redundancy, and scalability in retail environments
• Oversee the integration of omnichannel delivery methods and mobility experiences for seamless retail customer experiences
• Work with implementation teams to successfully take concepts to delivery
• Collaborate and contribute towards a culture of innovation, excellence, pushing for adoption of good engineering practices, managing waste and technical debt to a minimum.
• Embrace calculated risk-taking, necessary to promote business goals as a top priority.

Required Qualification

• 10+ years of overall technical experience with at least 5 years leading teams as a solutions architect.
• Previous experience in driving composable commerce solutions for B2C digital commerce capabilities on web/mobile/app platforms.
• Use of AI/data-centric approaches to scale customer journeys and digital back-end systems.
• Proven track record of collaborating on high-level abstract problems, business, or technical, and turning them into successful features.
• Strong systems engineering background, distilling simple solutions for complex technical challenges, spanning the define, design, develop, deploy, and operate phases.
• Experience working with distributed team members, both onshore and offshore
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships easily and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Well-versed with UX methodologies, back-end integrations, Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, and automation to build low-touch systems.
• A coach and mentor who can demonstrate the craft of technology and show the way to remove roadblocks.
• Experience developing capabilities with leading e-commerce platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, and Salesforce Cloud. Having a good understanding of helping make Buy vs Build decisions.
• Integration experience with incorporating third-party products/vendors to enhance e-commerce capabilities.
• Experience with major cloud providers – AWS, Azure, GCP
• Familiarity with modern frameworks and libraries – React, Vue, Next.js

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