Strategic Architect, Platform & AI Systems

Stitch Fix Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 184,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

Stitch Fix, Inc. is seeking a Distinguished Architect to set the technical direction for our future platform. You will guide architectural investments, modernize legacy foundations, and ensure reliability, security, and scalability across product engineering, data, and operations.

You will collaborate with CPTO and executives to balance business needs with technology strategy while building an influential architecture community and driving measurable technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale architecture modernization across distributed systems, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, integrations, and customer-facing apps.
• Expertise in designing resilient, scalable, secure, and observable systems with reliability engineering and DR capabilities.
• Ability to balance immediate product delivery with long-term platform health and governance.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Stitch Fix's enterprise technology architecture, defining target-state principles and modernization pathways.
• Translate business priorities into architectural choices and investment roadmaps for scalability and cost efficiency.
• Partner with product and engineering to ensure client-facing capabilities and AI-enabled experiences rest on durable foundations.
• Lead architecture governance with clear decision rights, lightweight reviews, and standard architectures.
• Identify systemic technology risks like legacy constraints, single points of failure, and security concerns.
• Shape multi-year investments for platform modernization, cloud infra, observability, and data architecture.
• Set expectations for service reliability, disaster recovery, performance, and operational readiness.
• Guide data and AI foundations to support trustworthy, scalable use of data across client experiences and internal workflows.
• Champion engineering efficiency through simplification, platform reuse, automation, and reducing cognitive load.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Cloud-native engineering

APIs & event-driven integration

AI & ML foundations

Data-driven decision making

Job description

Stitch Fix, Inc. is seeking a Distinguished Architect to set the technical direction for our future platform. You will guide architectural investments, modernize legacy foundations, and ensure reliability, security, and scalability across product engineering, data, and operations.

You will collaborate with CPTO and executives to balance business needs with technology strategy while building an influential architecture community and driving measurable technical excellence.