Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of and continuously enhance Stitch Fix’s enterprise technology architecture.

• Establish target-state principles, platform capabilities, and modernization strategies that align with business and product objectives.

• Convert strategic business priorities into architectural decisions and investment roadmaps.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders on client-facing functionalities, internal tools, data products, and AI-driven experiences.

• Lead the governance of architecture through decision rights, review processes, reference architectures, and technical standards.

• Identify and prioritize systemic technology risks, legacy issues, resilience gaps, integration complexities, performance bottlenecks, security challenges, and operating expenses.

• Shape a multi-year investment strategy for platform modernization, cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, observability, data architecture, integration patterns, reliability engineering, and the reduction of technical debt.

• Define expectations for service reliability, disaster recovery, performance, scalability, observability, and operational readiness.

• Guide the foundations for data and AI to ensure trustworthy and scalable use across client experiences, merchandising, operations, and internal processes.

• Promote engineering efficiency through simplification, platform reuse, automation, and minimizing total cost of ownership.

• Provide counsel to the CPTO and executive stakeholders on technical choices, investment trade-offs, vendor decisions, and emerging technologies.

• Foster an architecture community and cultivate senior technical talent.

• Effectively communicate technical strategy and architectural trade-offs in clear business language.

• Report directly to the Chief Product & Technology Officer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive, hands-on technical leadership experience as a Chief Architect, Distinguished Engineer, VP of Architecture, or a similar role in a complex digital, e-commerce, marketplace, or consumer technology landscape.

• Proven track record of leading large-scale architecture modernization initiatives across distributed systems, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, integrations, and customer-facing applications.

• Proficiency in building resilient, scalable, secure, and observable systems, encompassing reliability engineering, performance, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.

• Strong judgment in balancing immediate product delivery with long-term platform sustainability.

• Experience in establishing architecture principles, technical standards, reference models, and governance frameworks.

• Fluency in modern cloud-native engineering, APIs, event-driven integrations, data platforms, AI and machine-learning fundamentals, security, and developer productivity practices.

• Capability to evaluate technology investments based on business value, risk, lifecycle cost, scalability, and organizational capacity.

• Exceptional influencing and communication abilities with engineers, product leaders, executives, and non-technical business partners.

• Coaching-oriented leadership style that nurtures senior talent and encourages constructive discussions, curiosity, and accountability.

• A proactive approach to action, continuous improvement, and the pursuit of simple, durable solutions.

• Candidates must be located in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Equity options.

• Eligibility for annual bonuses.

• New hire and ongoing restricted stock unit grants, contingent on employee and company performance.

• Comprehensive medical benefits.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision coverage.

• Additional benefits.

• Opportunities for meaningful career advancement.

• A collaborative, low-ego work environment.

• Celebration of diverse perspectives.