Principal, Architecture – AI, Unified Commerce

Job Description:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Design intelligent, AI-augmented experiences that integrate predictive personalization, dynamic pricing, virtual styling, conversational commerce, and autonomous checkout journeys.
  • 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 (GCP, AWS), serverless models, and data mesh strategies.
  • Architect future-ready, omnichannel commerce platforms supporting unified experiences such as BOPIS, Same-day Delivery, and Endless Aisle.
  • 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, with at least 5+ years in commerce or omnichannel large scale 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, GCP 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 initiative
  • Strategic mindset with a strong grasp of emerging tech and its impact on business.
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills—especially around complex AI and tech-driven business value.
  • Ability to balance short-term business needs with long-term Gap’s Architecture vision.
  • Highly collaborative with a passion for innovation, experimentation, and user-centered design.
  • Comfortable driving clarity and structure in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.

Benefits:

  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Professional development
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