Distinguished Architect

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously evolve Stitch Fix’s enterprise technology architecture, defining the target-state principles, platform capabilities, and modernization pathways required to support the company’s business and product strategy.
• Translate strategic business priorities into architectural choices and investment roadmaps that balance speed to value with long-term scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure new client-facing capabilities, internal tools, data products, and AI-enabled experiences are built on durable, reusable, and well-governed foundations.
• Lead architecture governance as an enabling mechanism: establish clear decision rights, lightweight review practices, reference architectures, and technical standards that accelerate teams rather than create unnecessary gates.
• Identify and prioritize systemic technology risks, including legacy constraints, single points of failure, resilience gaps, data and integration complexity, performance bottlenecks, security concerns, and avoidable operating cost.
• Shape the multi-year investment strategy for platform modernization, cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, observability, data architecture, integration patterns, reliability engineering, and technical debt reduction.
• Set expectations for service reliability, disaster recovery, performance, scalability, observability, and operational readiness; partner with engineering and security leaders to ensure these expectations are practical and measurable.
• Guide the design of data and AI foundations that support trustworthy, scalable use of data and machine learning across client experiences, merchandising, operations, and internal workflows.
• Champion engineering efficiency through principled simplification, platform reuse, automation, and architecture choices that reduce cognitive load, improve developer throughput, and manage total cost of ownership.
• Advise the CPTO and executive stakeholders on major technical decisions, investment trade-offs, vendor and build-versus-buy choices, and the risks or opportunities created by emerging technologies.

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