Our client, an American Multinational Clothing and Accessories Retailer, is looking for a Principal Enterprise Architecture- OMNI (Consultant) for their San Francisco, CA location.
Responsibilities:
- As a senior leader within the Enterprise Architecture Group under the CTO Organization, the Principal Enterprise Architect Connected Commerce / OMNI-Channel & AI will drive the vision, design, and execution of an integrated technology architecture that powers seamless, intelligent, and personalized customer experiences across all digital and physical touchpoints.
- This role spans strategic domains—Digital, Retail Stores, Supply Chain, Customer Data, eCommerce, Marketing, and Fulfillment and serves as a critical change agent, enabling Connected and Agentic Commerce.
- The architect will influence enterprise-wide technology modernization, blueprints, and AI-driven commerce initiatives to unlock growth, improve customer satisfaction, and drive operational efficiency.
- This position plays a pivotal role in integrating AI-powered decisioning, personalization, and commerce agents into the technology landscape to support proactive, autonomous, and context-aware experiences.
- Architect future-ready, omnichannel commerce platforms supporting unified experiences such as BOPIS, Same-day Delivery, and Endless Aisle.
- Design intelligent, AI-augmented experiences that integrate predictive personalization, dynamic pricing, virtual styling, conversational commerce, and autonomous checkout journeys.
- Champion the use of Agentic Commerce patterns—autonomous shopping agents, proactive assistant bots, and AI-driven fulfillment orchestration—to create frictionless, next-gen shopping experiences.
- Integrate commerce ecosystems with real-time decision engines, customer data platforms (CDPs), recommendation systems, and AI models to drive adaptive journeys.
- Partner with product, engineering, and data science teams to implement AI across the customer lifecycle—from acquisition and engagement to loyalty and retention.
- Define architectural principles to scale AI/ML use cases, leveraging cloud-native platforms (Google Cloud Platform, AWS), serverless models, and data mesh strategies.
- Ensure architecture enables real-time signals processing (e.g., clickstream, IoT, POS), contextual understanding, and action-triggering across commerce surfaces.
- Lead architectural reviews and governance for AI-based and connected commerce projects.
- Guide experimentation with GenAI, LLMs, and autonomous agents in commerce, marketing, and fulfillment use cases.
- Collaborate with data, privacy, and compliance teams to align AI-powered experiences with data governance and ethical AI frameworks.
Requirements:- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; Master’s preferred.
- 10+ years of architecture leadership, with at least 5+ years in commerce or omnichannel transformation roles.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering commerce platforms across:
- Headless eCommerce (Shopify, Salesforce Commerce, etc.)
- Digital Experience Platforms (CMS, DAM, PIM)
- Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), Loyalty & Personalization Engines
- Retail POS, OMS, and Fulfillment Systems
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven systems (Kafka, Google Cloud Platform Pub/Sub), and serverless patterns.
- Experience integrating AI/ML services into customer-facing applications, preferably in real-time or large-scale environments.
- Experience with Agentic AI frameworks or commerce focused LLMs.
- Familiarity with AI platforms like Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or similar.
- Working knowledge of data pipelines, model deployment (MLOps), and experimentation platforms.
- Exposure to composable commerce and MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) architecture.
- Retail, CPG, or DTC brand experience with personalization and omnichannel engagement initiatives.
Why Should You Apply?- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities