Enterprise Architect

About the Role

David’s Bridal is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to define and govern the technology roadmap and architectural standards across the organization. This role operates at a strategic and hands-on leadership level—partnering with business leaders, product organizations, and engineering teams to ensure technology investments align with long-term business objectives, operational scalability, and modernization initiatives.

The ideal candidate has deep experience architecting complex ecosystems across commerce, retail operations, data platforms, digital engagement, and enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring technology decisions align with business growth, modernization priorities, and operational resilience
• Build and manage enterprise-wide architecture frameworks across applications, data, integrations, security, and infrastructure.
• Own and evolve architectural governance processes, technology standards, reference architectures, and documentation.
• Lead architecture oversight for major programs including digital commerce (Shopify), ERP modernization, CRM evolution, data platform modernization, BI/analytics lifecycle, and cloud adoption.
• Evaluate and approve new technologies, vendor solutions, integrations, and modernization initiatives based on scalability, cost, alignment, and future-state direction.
• Partner with product, engineering, and leadership teams to translate requirements into high-level and detailed technical design.
• Provide architectural leadership in platform evolution including composable architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Serve as a technical advisor to senior leadership on technology investments, system interdependencies, and risk management.
• Mentor engineering and architecture talent, fostering consistency, reusability, and best practices across teams.

Core Requirements

• 8–12+ years of architecture or senior technical leadership experience, ideally in enterprise retail or multi-channel commerce environments.
• Strong background designing and integrating large-scale systems including:
• Shopify or enterprise eCommerce platforms
• CRM, ERP, OMS, POS, and fulfillment systems
• Data platforms (Snowflake, SQL Server, Power BI ecosystem)
• Proven expertise with modern architecture patterns:
• API-first / microservices
• Event-driven or pub/sub integration
• Cloud architecture (Azure or AWS preferred)
• Composable or MACH frameworks strongly beneficial
• Experience developing architecture governance models, standards, and architecture roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of privacy, regulatory compliance, identity management, and security frameworks (SOC2, PCI, GDPR, CCPA).
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate vendor platforms, make build-vs-buy decisions, and lead enterprise technology selection.

Preferred Experience

• Experience modernizing legacy or monolithic retail environments to cloud-first, API-driven models.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, secure SDLC, observability, and automation frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise integration platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, or equivalent)
• Business architecture knowledge including process mapping, enterprise capability modeling, and operational workflow design.

Who You Are

• A strategic thinker with the ability to operate hands-on when needed.
• A strong communicator capable of influencing executives, engineers, and business teams.
• Able to simplify complex systems into actionable, scalable architecture.
• Focused on business outcomes—not just technical correctness.
• A leader who values documentation, patterns, and predictable execution.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• A critical leadership role shaping the future technology foundation of David’s Bridal.
• Autonomy and influence in a modernizing and forward-thinking technology organization.
• Collaborative culture with direct engagement across executive and technical teams.