Sr. Staff Architect at Gap Inc.

Job description

About the Role As a Senior Staff Architect, you are a high-impact individual contributor responsible for designing robust and scalable solutions within a domain stream. You bring deep technical and functional expertise and partner with cross-functional teams to define and implement architecture that supports business and technical objectives. Department: Enterprise Architecture Role : Senior Staff Enterprise Solution Architect Employment Type : Full- Time Location: Hyderabad, India (HDC) This role is focused on hands-on solution design, documentation, and delivery — with increasing influence across products, platforms, and governing teams. You bring deep expertise in retail and consumer goods, partnering with cross-functional business, product, and engineering teams to define and implement architecture that is robust, scalable, and aligned to both business and technical objectives. You serve as a bridge between architecture and engineering leadership, ensuring consistency, quality, and performance of solutions. As AI reshapes how software is designed and delivered, you will play an active role in embedding AI-driven thinking into architecture practices and championing adoption across your domain. What You'll Do Solution design & documentation Design and document end-to-end solutions for key initiatives within your domain, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and business needs. Project architecture leadership Lead architecture for individual projects and features, guiding engineering teams through solution execution and well-reasoned technical trade-offs. Cross-functional collaboration Partner with strategy teams, product managers, architects and engineers to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable architecture complaining to EA guidelines. Provide architectural input across multiple simultaneous initiatives. Quality, feasibility & integration alignment Ensure technical feasibility, performance, and integration alignment of solutions with adjacent systems and domains. Participate in defining, enhancing and ensuring design and code reviews to uphold architectural quality. Architecture framework & reusability Contribute to the evolution of architecture frameworks, reusable components, and reference implementations that raise the bar across the engineering organisation. Planning, estimation & technology evaluation Engage in early project planning and estimation through an architecture lens. Stay current with emerging technologies and help evaluate their applicability within your domain. AI ADOPTION Identify and drive opportunities to integrate AI and ML capabilities into enterprise domain solutions to enhance business value and operational efficiency . Serve as a strategic advocate for responsible, ethical, and compliant AI adoption across the domain architecture landscape. Lead the execution and advancement of enterprise architecture strategies in alignment with the vision and direction established by Principal Architects. ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE COLLABORATION Hands-on solution design and delivery within a domain stream. Operationalises enterprise guidance into project-level architecture. Alignment with Principal & Sr Principal Architects : Engage regularly with Principal and Senior Principal Architects to ensure domain-level solutions are grounded in enterprise architecture strategy. Consume and operationalise enterprise standards, patterns, and guardrails into project-level designs, and surface domain-specific insights that inform broader strategic decisions. Cross-domain architecture reviews : Participate in architecture review boards and cross-domain design forums facilitated by Principal Architects. Represent your domain's perspective, highlight integration touch-points, and collaborate on solutions that span multiple domain streams. Feedback loop & pattern sharing : Maintain a continuous feedback loop with the EA team — sharing reusable patterns, lessons learned, and implementation experienc