Distinguished Architect
Stitch Fix2 days ago
Base Salary
$205k - $341k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Stitch Fix’s enterprise technology architecture, target-state principles, platform capabilities, and modernization roadmaps.
- Translate business priorities into architectural choices and investment strategies balancing scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and cost.
- Establish architecture governance, decision rights, reference architectures, and technical standards that enable autonomous execution.
- Identify systemic technology risks involving legacy constraints, resilience, data and integration complexity, performance, security, and operating costs.
- Shape investment strategy across platform modernization, cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, observability, data architecture, reliability engineering, and technical debt reduction.
- Set expectations for reliability, disaster recovery, performance, scalability, observability, and operational readiness.
- Guide data and AI foundations supporting trustworthy and scalable use across client experiences, merchandising, operations, and internal workflows.
- Advise the CPTO and executive stakeholders on technical decisions, investment trade-offs, vendors, build-versus-buy choices, and emerging technologies.
- Build an architecture community, develop senior technical talent, and communicate technical strategy and trade-offs in clear business terms.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on technical leadership experience as a Chief Architect, Distinguished Engineer, VP of Architecture, or comparable leader in a complex digital, e-commerce, marketplace, or consumer technology environment.
- A record of leading large-scale architecture modernization across distributed systems, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, integrations, and customer-facing applications.
- Expertise designing resilient, scalable, secure, and observable systems, including reliability engineering, performance, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
- Strong judgment balancing immediate product delivery with long-term platform health and making trade-offs explicit and actionable.
- Experience establishing architecture principles, technical standards, reference patterns, and governance practices that preserve team autonomy.
- Fluency in cloud-native engineering, APIs, event-driven integration, data platforms, AI and machine-learning foundations, security, and developer productivity practices.
- Ability to evaluate technology investments by business value, risk, lifecycle cost, scalability, and organizational capability.
- Exceptional influence and communication skills with engineers, product leaders, executives, and non-technical business partners.
- Coaching-oriented leadership style focused on developing senior talent, constructive debate, curiosity, and accountability.
- Pragmatic, improvement-oriented approach to creating simple and durable solutions amid legacy complexity.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, benefits, equity, annual bonus eligibility, and restricted stock unit grants depending on employee and company performance.
- Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.
- Collaborative, low-ego environment with opportunities for career growth and measurable impact across fashion, technology, and data science.
- US-based compensation varies by professional background, experience, location, and performance.
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About Stitch Fix
Stitch Fix is an online personal styling and apparel retailer for consumers, blending human stylists with data-driven recommendations to ship curated clothing and accessories. It sells directly to clients through its website and app, offering try-at-home assortments from exclusive and national brands without a subscription. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Stitch Fix is a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker SFIX.