Principal Architect - Supply Chain

About the Role

The Principal Architect – Supply Chain will define and drive the architecture vision for Gap Inc’s global supply chain platforms, spanning fulfillment, transportation, and order management. This role combines strategic leadership and domain expertise to shape long-term technology roadmaps, partner with senior business leaders, and enable innovations in automation, AI, and advanced analytics. As a leader in architecture, you will mentor other architects and technical teams, advocate modern design principles (cloud-native, event-driven, API-first, secure-by-design), and ensure that supply chain technology investments deliver measurable improvements in speed-to-market, cost efficiency, and customer delivery experience.

What You'll Do

• Provide thought leadership, direction and accountability for strategic architectural plans and execution standards across supply chain systems.

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Product Management, Product Engineering and key stakeholders to define capabilities, solution strategies and multi-year roadmaps.

• Partner with architects, technical leads and vendor teams to translate business requirements into scalable business solutions, anticipating risks and identifying opportunities for innovation.

• Drive adoption of modern architectural paradigms including microservices, event-driven design, cloud-native applications, API-first integrations, and security-by-design.

• Conduct thorough evaluations of solution designs, ensuring alignment with functional and technical requirements, with emphasis on data and integration architectures.

• Enable the use of AI, automation, and advanced analytics to improve fulfillment speed, logistics cost efficiency, and customer delivery experience.

• Mentor and coach architects and technical leaders, fostering an architecture community of practice and raising overall technical maturity.

• Influence and engage with senior business leaders to align supply chain architecture with enterprise transformation objectives.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology.

• 5+ years of architecture experience in a complex supply chain ecosystem.

• Domain expertise in distribution, transportation or order management systems.

• Proven track record of shaping enterprise-wide architecture strategies and delivering business outcomes through technology.

• Experience with modern development practices, platforms, and database management systems to support digital transformation.

• Strong background in data integration patterns, techniques, and technologies.

• Excellent communication skills including strong technical writing

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in dynamic environments.