Senior Principal Enterprise Architect, Digital Commerce & Marketing

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap for Aritzia’s digital commerce, mobile apps, content, search, client data, POS, and omnichannel capabilities, upgrading legacy systems into cloud‑native, microservices‑based, and headless ecosystems.
• Partner strategically with business and technology leaders to shape initiatives that modernize and transform our digital and retail capabilities.
• Evangelize emerging technologies and industry trends, influencing Aritzia’s roadmap to maintain a competitive edge through cutting‑edge solutions.
• Embed AI and ML capabilities into the technology ecosystem, driving automation, predictive insights, and intelligent decision‑making.
• Translate corporate strategy into actionable technology direction and ensure architecture investments deliver tangible business value.
• Influence and guide solution architects and engineering teams, ensuring design consistency, scalability, and alignment with global principles.
• Drive modernization across retail and digital, ensuring flexibility and future‑readiness.
• Collaborate closely with peers across the Technology Division to ensure end‑to‑end integration across retail and digital commerce capabilities.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration through engineering communities of practice and lead the creation and adoption of engineering best practices.

• 20+ years of experience architecting and delivering technology solutions in retail and digital domains.
• Proven leadership in cloud migrations, data integrations, Dev Ops, backend engineering, and off‑the‑shelf package implementations.
• Strong technology and engineering background, including experience with commerce and digital experience architectures, including modernizing legacy eCommerce into cloud‑native and headless platforms.
• Composable commerce (e.g., Salesforce, Commerce Cloud, Commerce Tools or similar).
• AWS or GCP, microservices, Spring Boot, serverless, containers (Docker/EKS), GraphQL, React, CI/CD, and IaC (Terraform).
• Proficiency in enterprise data and integration patterns.
• Experience with retail systems, POS integration, omnichannel flows, and high‑volume commerce performance patterns.
• Implementing a Customer Data Platform (CDP).
• Deploying technology to support loyalty and membership programs.
• Hands‑on experience with implementing modern search platforms.
• Implementation of Call Center client interaction automation leveraging agentic AI‑based platforms.
• Integrating a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system.
• Modernizing content, catalog, and search platforms, leveraging AI/ML‑powered search and personalization.
• Experience managing large budgets and leading cross‑functional teams in complex, global environments.
• Experience in vendor relationship management, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement.
• Appreciation for Aritzia’s obsession with design, quality, and excellence, and ability to translate that into technology standards and solutions that scale.
• A commitment to learn, apply, champion and enrich Aritzia's values and business and people leadership principles.
• The skills to collaborate strategically with cross‑functional partners in the pursuit of shared business outcomes.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, enabling complex ideas to be clearly articulated and connected to Aritzia’s purpose and strategic ambitions.
• The ability to set clear objectives and design a strategy that inspires the team.
• Ability to align global architecture with business strategy and influence senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• A dedication to quality and investing in results and new business opportunities that add value.