Director, Platform Architecture

🕒 February 12

🌵 Arizona, California, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $195k - $212k / year

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Deckers Brands

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1973

👥 B2C

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

B2C • Fashion • Retail

Deckers Brands is a global leader in designing, marketing, and distributing innovative footwear, apparel, and accessories. Known for its high-quality products and trendsetting designs, Deckers Brands encompasses a portfolio of well-known brands that appeal to diverse consumer segments worldwide.

📋 Description

• Define and scale Deckers’ modern data and analytics platform architecture, ensuring it is secure, scalable, governed, and optimized for performance and cost. • Establish foundational architectural frameworks, technology standards, and best practices for our cloud-native platform, with AWS as the core environment. • Collaborate with data architects, platform and DevOps engineering teams, product leaders, and governance specialists. • Support the development of the enterprise data platform strategy aligned with business objectives and digital transformation initiatives. • Define and maintain the architectural blueprint and reference architecture for the cloud-native data platform using AWS as the core environment. • Establish principles and patterns for platform scalability, reliability, security, observability, and cost optimization across platform services and shared capabilities. • Design and maintain standards for platform architecture layers including infrastructure, networking, identity and access management, audit logging, metadata management, access control, and observability. • Partner with domain architects and engineering teams to ensure shared platform services are reusable, modular, and governed, and that domain teams can self-serve effectively. • Guide the adoption of platform services and tools that enable data mesh, pub-sub models, event-driven architectures, and self-serve data product delivery. • Lead evaluation and selection of core platform technologies and services, ensuring they meet business needs for analytics, real-time streaming, governance, and machine learning enablement. • Promote architectural patterns that enable resilience, scalability, cost efficiency, and rapid delivery, including standards for automation, environment management, and operational readiness. • Partner with Data Governance, Security, and Compliance teams to embed privacy, security, and audit-readiness into platform architecture and delivery practices. • Define standards for metadata capture, lineage tracking, data quality measurement, and access management across platform services and tooling. • Provide architectural leadership and mentorship to platform engineers, DevOps teams, and data engineering teams, including design reviews and technical guidance. • Collaborate with Program Delivery, Product Management, and architecture peers to align roadmaps, sequencing, and execution plans across multiple teams. • Influence platform design decisions across the organization and drive alignment to enterprise goals through standards, reference implementations, and review processes. • Support vendor evaluations, licensing decisions, and long-term technology investments for the platform ecosystem, including total cost of ownership considerations.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field • Master’s degree preferred • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent certifications are highly preferred • 10 to 15 years of experience in platform architecture, data architecture, or enterprise systems design • 5 or more years of leadership experience building or scaling cloud-native data platforms, ideally on AWS • Experience supporting modern data architectures including lakehouse models, real-time streaming, and domain-oriented data products • Experience in the retail, consumer products, or e-commerce industry is preferred but not required • Deep expertise in AWS cloud services related to data storage, compute, networking, security, and auditability, including services such as S3, Redshift, Glue, Lake Formation, EMR, Kinesis, IAM, VPC, and CloudTrail • Knowledge of distributed computing frameworks, modern file formats and open table standards including Parquet and Iceberg • Familiarity with governance, cataloging, lineage, and privacy frameworks and regulations including GDPR and CCPA • Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, and data platform technologies • Strong leadership skills with the ability to work cross-functionally and influence without direct authority • Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities in complex, fast-paced environments • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences • Ability to foster innovation, drive continuous improvement, and create scalable technical frameworks • Comfortable working in a global, matrixed organization with a proactive, results-driven approach.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Pay and Bonuses • Financial Planning and wellbeing • Time away from work • Extras, discounts and perks • Growth and Development • Health and Wellness