Establish North Star Vision of technology landscape with area leaders of Digital Engineering across multiple applications, development processes, and infrastructure requirements
Work with Project Portfolio Management team and business stakeholders to estimate new work, create overarching solution design , and ensure both business and technical goals are met with the estimates
Oversee Solutions Design/Architects in the space of eCommerce, Stores, Order Management, Microservices in Customer facing technology space, Personalization & Marketing Technology
Team up with the functional leaders across Technology, including Infrastructure, Networking, security, and application leaders to define standards meeting a large set of use cases.
Develop, train, and mentor other application architects both through project work and/or POC work for solutions design. This includes regular technical updates to the team, informal and formal training sessions, and 1-1 coaching
Create a roadmap with business and technical leaders to support our modernization needs as well as achieve business outcomes.
Document architectural standards and design patterns for reference in decision-making, development and build practices.
Ensure leverage and use of the architectural practices, DevOps and other standards are built into future and existing projects
Perform market assessments on new technology tools to understand capability differences amongst providers, and ensure alignment with A&F architectural and security standards.
Support Application Rationalization efforts to simplify application landscape and standardize on modern technology.
Lead and/or participate on technical user groups, task forces, and committees that are relevant to architecture.
Responsible for continually growing their skills and knowledge.
Perform related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 18+ years' experience in various roles of technical leadership within a large-scale organization
Deep architect/engineering experience with web and app front end for an omni-channel retailer
Experience architecting large scale ecommerce, store, order management, and Microservices
Experience implementing Customer Data Platform, Personalization and Marketing technology would be nice to have
Experience with designing solutions involving technologies including but not limited to: React, JavaScript, Redux, Solr, Redis, Elasticsearch
Knowledge of DNS, CDNs, and global traffic routing for eCommerce
Experience with designing cloud hosted microservice architectures
Experience in integration with point of sale solutions and RFID in retail setting
Demonstrable ability to partner with data teams on patterns to empower deep analytics in digital space.
Strong integration mindset – API first, headless or composable patterns, event streams
Comfort with architecture modeling and roadmapping (capability maps, reference architecture, transition states).
Not just slideware or low-level solution designs
Nice to have: Experience with Agentic Commerce, Hyper-Personalization tools, Unified Commerce.

Benefits

Incentive bonus program
401(K) savings plan with company match
Annual companywide review process
Flexible spending accounts
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Life and disability insurance
Associate assistance program
Paid parental and adoption leave
Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot
Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace
Paid Caregiver Leave
Mobile Stipend
Paid time off and one paid volunteer day per year, allowing you to give back to your community
Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are “work from anywhere” days for most roles and six work from anywhere weeks per year)
Seven associate wellness half days per year
Merchandise discount on all of our brands
Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within
Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups
Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

architectureengineeringeCommercemicroservicesCustomer Data PlatformPersonalization technologyReactJavaScriptReduxcloud hosted microservice architectures

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationcoachingproblem-solvingstrategic planningtrainingdecision-makingadaptability

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science