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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 too 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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