About Gap Inc.
Our brands bridge the gaps we see in the world.Old Navy democratizes style to ensure everyonehas access to quality fashion at every price point. Athleta unleashes the potential of every woman,regardless of body size, age or ethnicity. BananaRepublic believes in sustainable luxury for all. And Gapinspires the world to bring individuality to modern, responsibly madeessentials.
This simple idea-that we all deserve to belong,and on our own terms-is core to who we are as acompany and how we make decisions.Our teamis 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 tolearn fast, create with audacityand lead boldly? Join our team.
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About the Role
In this role, you will provide architectural and big picture oversight for the development of new or enhanced platforms, applications, and solutions across the Product to Market (P2M) domain with a continual emphasis on value to the business. With a platform architecture mindset, you will be responsible for leading the business architecture and technical strategy of the P2M domain, ensuring quality and consistency of our software architecture across P2M systems and peripheral domains. You'll execute across new and existing systems that align to your P2M north star blueprint, and lead with building and cultivating strategic long-term partnerships through Product Management, engineering teams, the business, and senior level stakeholders.
What You'll Do
- Define multi-year architectural north star blueprint across P2M domain ownership with a Platform Architecture Mindset: Business Architecture, Current State Assessments, Process Breakdown, Logical and Physical Systems, Integration Insights, System Interactions, and Architectural Roadmaps
- Create strong working partnership and rapport with senior leadership, engineering teams, product, and partners within the business to increase effectiveness of Enterprise Architecture
- Ensure continuous alignment of business and tech priorities across the architecture for your and peripheral domains
- Recommend opportunities for business process refactoring through traditional IBP / EBP practices
- Recommend and help implement technologies and pattern choices that are modern, pragmatic, and frugal
- Use modern architecture documentation practices: LeanIX, documentation-as-code, diagrams-as-code (Asciidoc, Markdown, Kroki, etc.), and traditional executive or business friendly read-out formats.
- Involved in steering high level architecture landscapes across all business capabilities and domains
- Influence and maintain our Business Capability Map with Product partners
- Maintain and explore architecturally strategic technology supplier relationships
- Experience defining and leading architecture through end-to-end P2M transformation efforts in large organizations
- Strong desire to focus efforts that yield the most amount of business value that continually views the work through a customer curious lens
- Experience implementing best-of-suite platforms across broader domain areas and aligning business processes toward industry standards
- Isn't to far from the tech; experiments hands-on with new tech from time to time
- Proven ability to influence and deliver strategic architecture vision, direction, and planning
- Possess an architectural blend of knowledge and experience across engineering, infrastructure, security, and data science
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent number of years of experience in Computer Science
- Cultural awareness leading a globally distributed team
- Experience with retail or retail-related domain(s), with an emphasis in P2M and end-to-end P2M transformation
- Avid reader of tech, industry, and domain topic: publications, HN, r/programming, X/Mastadon, dev.to, Substack newsletters, podcasts, etc.
- 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.
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: $196,800 - $260,800 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.
US Candidates
Please note that effective, June 30, 2022, Gap Inc. will no longer require any of its employees to wear face masks or require proof of COVID vaccination, unless required by local or state/provincial mandates or as part of Gap Inc's quarantine guidelinesafter being exposed to or testing positive for COVID. Therefore, please disregard any language in any job posting that refers to Gap Inc.'s face mask and proof of vaccination policy as said policy is no longer effective.