Gap

Principal - Architecture (AI, Unified Commerce)

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5 months ago
Folsom, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Drive the vision, design, and execution of integrated AI and unified commerce architecture across digital and physical customer touchpoints.
  • Champion agentic commerce patterns including autonomous shopping agents, proactive assistants, and AI-driven fulfillment orchestration.
  • Design AI-augmented experiences involving personalization, dynamic pricing, virtual styling, conversational commerce, and autonomous checkout.
  • Integrate commerce ecosystems with customer data platforms, decision engines, recommendation systems, and AI models.
  • Define architectural principles for scalable AI/ML use cases using cloud-native, serverless, and data mesh strategies.
  • Architect omnichannel commerce platforms supporting BOPIS, same-day delivery, and endless aisle experiences.
  • Enable real-time processing of clickstream, IoT, and POS signals across commerce surfaces.
  • Lead architectural reviews and governance for AI-based and connected commerce initiatives.
  • Guide GenAI, LLM, and autonomous-agent experimentation across commerce, marketing, and fulfillment.
  • Partner with data, privacy, compliance, product, engineering, and data science teams on responsible AI-powered experiences.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
  • 10+ years of architecture experience, including at least 5+ years in commerce or omnichannel large-scale transformation roles.
  • Experience architecting and delivering headless eCommerce, digital experience platforms, customer data platforms, loyalty and personalization engines, retail POS, OMS, and fulfillment systems.
  • Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub, and serverless patterns.
  • Experience integrating AI/ML services into customer-facing applications in real-time or large-scale environments.
  • Experience with agentic AI frameworks or commerce-focused LLMs.
  • Familiarity with Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or similar AI platforms.
  • Working knowledge of data pipelines, model deployment, MLOps, and experimentation platforms.
  • Exposure to composable commerce and MACH architecture.
  • Retail, CPG, or DTC brand experience involving personalization and omnichannel engagement.
  • Strong strategic, communication, storytelling, collaboration, and user-centered design skills.
Gap

About Gap

10,000+ employees

Gap Inc. is a public U.S. apparel retailer that operates the Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta brands, selling clothing and accessories for men, women, and children. It generates revenue through company-operated and franchise stores and e-commerce across global markets. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE.

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