Information Technology - Senior Principal Enterprise Architect, Digital Commerce & Marketing

THE ROLE

As the Senior Principal / Principal Enterprise Architect, you will:

• 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

THE QUALIFICATIONS

• 20+ years of experience architecting and delivering technology solutions in retail and digital domains
• Proven leadership in cloud migrations, data integrations, DevOps, 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)
• Experience with enterprise data and integration patterns
• Implementing a Customer Data Platform (CDP), Deploying technology to support loyalty and membership programs, Integrating a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, Modernizing content, catalog, and search platforms, leveraging AI/ML-powered search and personalization
• Managing large budgets and leading cross-functional teams in complex, global environments
• 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
• 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
• The 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