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Gap Inc.

Principal Enterprise Architect, Product to Market

Gap Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


About the Role In this role, you will provide architectural and big picture oversight for the development of new or enhanced platforms, applications, and solutions across the Product to Market (P2M) domain with a continual emphasis on value to the business. With a platform architecture mindset, you will be responsible for leading the business architecture and technical strategy of the P2M domain, ensuring quality and consistency of our software architecture across P2M systems and peripheral domains. You’ll execute across new and existing systems that align to your P2M north star blueprint, and lead with building and cultivating strategic long-term partnerships through Product Management, engineering teams, the business, and senior level stakeholders. What You'll Do

Define multi-year architectural north star blueprint across P2M domain ownership with a Platform Architecture Mindset: Business Architecture, Current State Assessments, Process Breakdown, Logical and Physical Systems, Integration Insights, System Interactions, and Architectural Roadmaps

Create strong working partnership and rapport with senior leadership, engineering teams, product, and partners within the business to increase effectiveness of Enterprise Architecture

Ensure continuous alignment of business and tech priorities across the architecture for your and peripheral domains

Recommend opportunities for business process refactoring through traditional IBP / EBP practices

Recommend and help implement technologies and pattern choices that are modern, pragmatic, and frugal

Use modern architecture documentation practices: LeanIX, documentation-as-code, diagrams-as-code (Asciidoc, Markdown, Kroki, etc.), and traditional executive or business friendly read-out formats.

Involved in steering high level architecture landscapes across all business capabilities and domains

Influence and maintain our Business Capability Map with Product partners

Maintain and explore architecturally strategic technology supplier relationships

Who You Are

Experience defining and leading architecture through end-to-end P2M transformation efforts in large organizations

Strong desire to focus efforts that yield the most amount of business value that continually views the work through a customer curious lens

Experience implementing best-of-suite platforms across broader domain areas and aligning business processes toward industry standards

Isn’t to far from the tech; experiments hands-on with new tech from time to time

Proven ability to influence and deliver strategic architecture vision, direction, and planning

Possess an architectural blend of knowledge and experience across engineering, infrastructure, security, and data science

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent number of years of experience in Computer Science

Cultural awareness leading a globally distributed team

Experience with retail or retail-related domain(s), with an emphasis in P2M and end-to-end P2M transformation

Avid reader of tech, industry, and domain topic: publications, HN, r/programming, X/Mastadon, dev.to, Substack newsletters, podcasts, etc.

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