About Gap Inc.
Our brands bridge the gaps we see in the world. Old Navy democratizes style to ensure everyone has access to quality fashion at every price point. Athleta unleashes the potential of every woman, regardless of body size, age or ethnicity. Banana Republic believes in sustainable luxury for all. And Gap inspires the world to bring individuality to modern, responsibly made essentials.
This simple idea—that we all deserve to belong, and on our own terms—is core to who we are as a company and how we make decisions. Our team is made up of thousands of people across the globe who take risks, think big, and do good for our customers, communities, and the planet. Ready to learn fast, create with audacity and lead boldly? Join our team.
About the Role
As Principal Enterprise Solution Architect – Stores, you will own the architectural vision, solution design, and execution strategy across our enterprise retail store domain. You will drive transformation of store technologies by defining a modern, scalable architecture that enhances the frontline associate and customer experience, boosts operational efficiency, and enables continuous innovation across core store capabilities.
Partnering with business and technology leaders, you will lead modernization of legacy platforms and introduce cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures to support the future of omnichannel retail. You’ll play a key role in defining the technology roadmap, aligning it with business strategy, and guiding delivery teams to realize strategic goals.
What You'll Do
- Architect end-to-end solutions to support core store domains, ensuring scalability, resilience, and alignment with business goals
- Act as a strategic thought leader, presenting and aligning architectural vision with senior business and technology stakeholders to support long-term transformation initiatives
- Evaluate and recommend best-fit technologies and solutions for critical retail use cases, like personalization, real-time store analytics and dashboards and IoT applications in stores
- Collaborate across teams to translate retail business strategy into executable technology roadmaps, enterprise solution blueprints, and transformation initiatives.
- Lead the design and evolution of the future-state architecture for retail store applications and platforms, supporting new business capabilities and continuous innovation.
- Provide architectural oversight on major initiatives by driving consistency in Integration patterns (e.g., REST APIs, messaging/event-driven design) and data flows (ETL/ELT, streaming, real-time)
- Partner with Engineering, Product, PMO, and business leadership to define the architecture transition roadmap, identify key dependencies, and proactively address risks and constraints.
- Define and maintain reusable architectural assets, like domain models, blue prints, roadmaps and patterns
- Influence enterprise governance processes, promoting architectural alignment across teams and ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards and best practices.
- Support vendor evaluations, lead technical due diligence, and contribute to business case development for procurement of critical retail systems
Who You Are
- A seasoned enterprise or solution architect with 10+ years of experience in stores and transformation programs
- Deep expertise in supporting the front, back and workforce management of the retail stores systems
- Experience migrating or replacing homegrown stores systems
- Proven ability to connect enterprise initiatives with stores system and process impacts
- Excellent communicator, collaborator, and influencer across business and technology teams
- Strong understanding of modern data architecture, APIs, and integration with reporting and planning ecosystems
- A strategic thinker with the ability to present and align architectural vision at senior levels
Benefits at Gap Inc.
- Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
- One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
- Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*
- Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.*
- Employee stock purchase plan.*
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
- See more of the benefits we offer.
*For eligible employees
Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.
Salary Range: $201,700 - $267,300 USD
Employee pay will vary based on factors such as qualifications, experience, skill level, competencies and work location. We will meet minimum wage or minimum of the pay range (whichever is higher) based on city, county and state requirements.
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