Principal Enterprise Architect – Product-to-Market / Retail Planning

About the role

The Principal Enterprise Architect - Product-to-Market / Retail Planning supports a leading enterprise retail client. This role focuses on the design, assessment, and evolution of the client's Product-to-Market ecosystem, integrating capabilities like composable architecture, API-first integrations, and AI/ML-enabled planning.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current Product-to-Market landscape and vendor capabilities to identify gaps, redundancies, risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Develop architecture blueprints, capability roadmaps, and recommendations aligned to business outcomes.
• Support enterprise architecture efforts across various retail planning capabilities including Line Planning, Buy Planning, Visual Mapping, Space Planning, Size & Pack, Allocation, Consumer Insights, and more.
• Provide guidance on composable architecture patterns, API-first integrations, event-driven architecture, and data flow design.
• Partner with Product-to-Market, Engineering, Data, and business teams to evaluate vendors, define integration patterns, and support platform decisions.
• Advise on AI/ML and Agentic AI use cases related to Product-to-Market automation, predictive planning, personalization, content automation, and employee engagement.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, governance processes, investment decisions, and platform consolidation initiatives.
• Produce clear documentation, including architecture diagrams, decision frameworks, capability models, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Translate complex architecture and Product-to-Market concepts into clear business value for senior stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Product-to-Market, retail planning, supply chain, or enterprise architecture.
• Strong experience supporting retail Product-to-Market capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with merchandising and planning processes, including Line Planning, Buy Planning, Allocation, Consumer Insights, Visual Mapping, Space Planning, Sizing and Packing.
• Experience working in retail, fashion/apparel, client-facing, or DTC brand environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native, API-first, composable, and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Experience evaluating vendor capabilities and designing integration patterns across enterprise platforms.
• Ability to create architecture blueprints, roadmaps, capability assessments, and governance documentation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to business and executive audiences.
• Ability to integrate quickly into an existing team and deliver with minimal ramp-up.

Qualifications

• Experience with composable Product-to-Market architecture and MACH architecture principles.
• Familiarity with Agentic AI or LLM applications in Product-to-Market automation, planning, personalization, or employee engagement.
• Experience with AI/ML-driven capabilities such as predictive segmentation, next-best-action, propensity modeling, personalization, and audience intelligence.
• Prior experience supporting large-scale transformation, platform modernization, or architecture governance initiatives.

Skills

• Strong enterprise architecture mindset with hands-on retail planning domain expertise.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborative team player who can work within established governance frameworks.
• Strong documentation, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture direction with practical delivery needs.

Benefits

Russell Tobin offers comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Pay

$100-$115/hour W2

Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM PT