Distinguished Architect at Stitch Fix

Job description

About Stitch Fix, Inc. Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) Stitch Fix is redefining retail by combining human creativity with advanced data science and Generative AI. As we build the future of personalized shopping, we’re equally committed to building yours. We believe in investing in our team as much as our technology. Join us to be a trendsetter in the industry and help us redefine what’s possible for our clients, while we help you reach your full potential. About the Role Reporting to the Chief Product & Technology Officer, the Distinguished Architect will set the technical direction for Stitch Fix’s future platform and guide the architectural investments that make our products more resilient, scalable, efficient, secure, and adaptable. This is a senior technology leadership role for a builder and systems thinker who can connect business strategy, client experience, data and AI ambitions, and operational realities to a coherent technology evolution. The Distinguished Architect will work across product engineering, data, platform, enterprise systems, security, and operations to establish clear architectural principles and make high-quality trade-offs. They will help Stitch Fix modernize legacy foundations while preserving the stability, reliability, and client trust that are essential to the business today. 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. Build and convene an influential architecture community across Stitch Fix, developing senior technical talent and creating shared ownership for high-quality technical decisions. Communicate technical strategy and architectural trade-offs in clear business terms so leaders can make informed decisions with confidence. What Success Looks Like Stitch Fix has a clear, credible architecture strategy that connects technology investments to business outcomes, client value, and the company’s future