Sr Director, Enterprise & Solution Architecture - P2M

About the Role

In this role, you will drive the strategic development and go-to-market architectures of innovative platforms, applications, and solutions that accelerate product creation, enhance customer engagement, and optimize market penetration.

You will be a hands-on architect/leader (player/coach) who will be responsible for:
•Leading and defining the architectural vision and strategy, develop roadmaps aligned with business goals and technology strategy.
•Ensure a seamless customer/employee experience by creating a streamlined end-to-end solution design, ensuring quality and consistency of our software architecture across systems
•Lead architecture governance by establishing and enforcing architecture principles, standards and best practices for retail solutions. Drive design reviews and ensure designs are consistent across various portfolios
•Cultivate strategic long-term partnerships with business and technology senior level stakeholders
•Build a high-performing architecture team, provide mentorship across various architecture disciplines including technical architecture and business architecture ensuring alignment with enterprise goals.
•Promote cross-functional collaboration between architects, product owners, program management and engineering to deliver seamless retail solutions.
•Establish an end-to-end operating model process with key partners and stakeholders across engineering, product management and program management that works in a SAFe Agile methodology as well as hybrid methodologies
•Lead Product Selection using an established methodology bringing together multiple cross-functional business and technology stakeholders resulting in product and platform alignment

What You'll Do

Enterprise & Solution Architecture Leadership

• Develop and execute the P2M technology strategy to enable faster, more efficient product development and optimize the end-to-end go-to-market process.
• Architect scalable, cloud-based, and API-driven solutions for PLM, sourcing, planning, and inventory management platforms.
• Ensure seamless integration between design, merchandising, sourcing, supply chain, and ERP systems to create a unified product lifecycle process.
• Enable AI, automation, and advanced analytics to improve speed-to-market, demand forecasting, and allocation optimization.

Digital Product Creation & Sourcing

• Lead the modernization of PLM and Digital Product Creation (DPC) platforms to support 3D design, virtual prototyping, and AI-driven material selection.
• Enhance global sourcing & manufacturing processes by integrating real-time supplier collaboration, minimum order quantity (MOQ) management, and service level forecasting.
• Enable end-to-end visibility across sourcing and production by integrating global purchase order (PO) management and vendor tracking into supply chain platforms.
• Optimize supplier and cost management by leveraging AI-driven cost forecasting and vendor performance analytics.

Assortment Planning & Visual Assorting

• Architect next-generation assortment planning and visual assorting tools that enable data-driven product selection across multiple sales channels.
• Enable localized assortment optimization by integrating regional demand forecasting, customer preferences, and store-level insights.
• Support evergreen merchandise and core product lifecycle planning through AI-driven insights that optimize replenishment and inventory levels.

Inventory Management & Demand Forecasting

• Implement AI-driven inventory forecasting models that improve accuracy in size localization, attribute-based buy forecasting, and weeks-of-supply-based buying.
• Modernize merchandise financial planning (MFP) and buy planning processes by integrating predictive analytics for optimal inventory allocation.
• Enable real-time inventory visibility and replenishment automation to reduce stockouts and overstock situations.
• Leverage machine learning to optimize allocation automation for replenishment and markdowns.

Pricing, Promotions & Markdown Optimization

• Architect intelligent pricing systems to support d