Chief Architect

Signet Jewelers•Irving, TX

About The Position

Signet Jewelers is seeking a Chief Architect to serve as the principal architectural authority across its unified Digital & Technology (D&T) organization. This senior individual-contributor role will act as the CDTO's most trusted technical partner, ensuring initiatives are built on the right foundations and aligned with Signet's strategic priorities of platform harmonization, enterprise AI adoption, and Blue Nile integration. The role is grounded in Signet's “Grow Brand Love” and “Connected Commerce” strategy.

Requirements

15+ years of progressive technology experience, including time as Chief/Principal Architect, VP of Engineering, or CTO within a multi-brand, large-scale retail or e-commerce enterprise ($2B+ revenue).
Practitioner architect with a majority of career spent designing and shipping production systems.
Demonstrated cross-portfolio architecture ownership, ideally across distinct consumer brands sharing common infrastructure.
Track record of platform consolidation, brand harmonization, and simplification at scale.
Deep command of cloud, integration, event-driven, and headless/composable (MACH) architecture.
Hands-on fluency with a major cloud's serverless ecosystem (e.g., AWS).
Track record authoring durable architecture artifacts (capability maps, C4 diagrams, ADRs) that teams use.
Strong financial fluency and proven influence in a matrixed environment without reporting authority.
Experience with AI-assisted SDLC practices and agentic AI architecture patterns.
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Nice To Haves

Specialty retail or jewelry experience.
SAP Commerce Cloud, IBM Sterling/Fluent/Manhattan OMS, headless CMS (AEM, Contentful, Contentstack), or Oracle Xstore at production scale.
Real-time CDP (Adobe, Amperity, Salesforce) and/or Salesforce Sales/Service Cloud in retail contexts.
Experience with permissioned distributed ledgers or heavy external APIs without adding latency.
Multi-national e-commerce or omnichannel operations.
Familiarity with TOGAF, C4, or ArchiMate.
Technical Master's degree.

Responsibilities

Own the cross-enterprise architectural view, including current-state baseline, capability-to-system mapping, and a multi-year target-state architecture.
Define the enterprise technical roadmap with domain and platform leaders, ensuring alignment with business strategy.
Lead the harmonization of Signet's multi-brand technology estate, collapsing duplicative platforms and replacing brand-by-brand sprawl with shared foundations.
Drive architectural integration of Blue Nile and future acquisitions into the unified platform.
Establish enterprise architecture standards, reference patterns, and decision governance.
Serve as architectural arbiter for the CDTO on cross-cutting decisions and as a liaison to the Enterprise Architecture team.
Review significant programs at inception and key gates to ensure alignment and steer initiatives.
Provide hands-on architectural leadership on high-impact, cross-domain initiatives.
Drive the shift to an AI-assisted, agentic development model with integrated SDLC capabilities.
Architect patterns for safe and scalable agentic and AI-native systems.
Build and lead a small, skilled internal team.
Provide peer-level leadership to domain-embedded architects and lead the enterprise Architecture Community of Practice.
Build trust-based relationships with senior executives across various departments.
Anchor decisions in customer/brand outcomes and clear economics.