Technology - Enterprise Data Architect

Aritzia • Seattle, WA

3d • $100,000 - $300,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Aritzia is growing and our Data Governance team is growing with it. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the team responsible for defining and shaping the future of Aritzia’s data architecture. You will establish the standards and roadmap that enable scalable, trusted, and business-aligned data capabilities. You will play a pivotal role in designing modern, secure, and interoperable data ecosystems, partnering closely with technology, data, and senior business leaders to drive consistency in information architecture, governance, data quality, and metadata standards. You will influence data platform investments, architecture decisions, and modernization priorities while enabling teams through reusable patterns, architectural guardrails, and best practices that accelerate the delivery of data, analytics, and AI solutions at enterprise scale. With your valuable contribution to the business in this role, the opportunities are endless — from a rewarding career in Data Governance to continued growth with Aritzia.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or equivalent experience; Master's preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience across enterprise data, analytics, data platforms, enterprise architecture, or data engineering leadership, including significant experience in principal or lead architecture roles.
• Deep expertise defining enterprise data strategy, target-state architecture, standards, reference architectures, and multi-year roadmaps across complex, multi-domain environments.
• Hands-on architecture experience with modern public cloud data ecosystems across GCP, AWS, or Azure, and platforms such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or equivalent.
• Strong experience architecting lakehouse, warehouse, streaming, orchestration, semantic, BI, and ML/AI consumption patterns with a focus on scalability, reliability, governance, observability, and cost-to-serve.
• Strong information architecture and data modeling experience across conceptual, logical, and physical layers, including canonical models, semantic layers, metrics layers, dimensional modeling, data contracts, and domain data products.
• Proven experience establishing enterprise data governance capabilities, including ownership, stewardship, metadata, glossary, catalog, lineage, quality, classification, privacy, retention, and lifecycle management.
• Experience building or enabling federated data product operating models, Data Mesh principles, domain ownership, reusable data templates, automation, standards, and platform paved roads.
• Experience with data catalog, governance, lineage, MDM, observability, and quality tools such as dbt, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Denodo, cloud-native governance services, or equivalent.
• Mastery of data integration and engineering patterns including batch, streaming, CDC, APIs, event-driven architecture, Kafka or cloud-native messaging, pipeline orchestration, and ELT/ETL.
• Experience enabling AI-ready data foundations for governed reporting, analytics, machine learning, GenAI, semantic search, knowledge representation, and emerging agentic use cases.
• Demonstrated ability to influence VP and C-level stakeholders through clarity of technical thought, balanced trade-off analysis, business-aligned recommendations, and executive-ready storytelling.
• A commitment to learn and apply Aritzia's Business and People Leadership principles

Nice To Haves

• Experience partnering across Digital, Retail, Product, Supply Chain, Corporate, Finance, Customer, ESG, or similarly complex consumer domains strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Aritzia’s enterprise data architecture strategy, translating business priorities into scalable, secure, and future-ready data capabilities.
• Establish enterprise standards for data products, information architecture, semantic models, metadata, business glossaries, taxonomies, and cross-domain interoperability.
• Design and evolve modern data ecosystems, enabling trusted, discoverable, and AI-ready data across platforms, domains, and business functions.
• Partner with Global Architecture, Engineering Enablement, Data & Analytics teams, and senior business leaders to align architecture decisions with enterprise objectives and technology strategy.
• Drive architecture governance by leading standards development, architectural reviews, reusable patterns, and best practices that improve consistency, quality, security, and scalability.
• Build and steward a centralized portfolio of enterprise data architecture assets, ensuring documentation, models, reference architectures, and standards remain current and accessible.
• Assess and mature enterprise data and governance capabilities through benchmarking, capability assessments, and target-state roadmaps.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and data teams while fostering a culture of data architecture excellence through education, coaching, and communities of practice.
• Influence data platform, tooling, and investment decisions by evaluating emerging technologies and identifying opportunities to simplify, modernize, and optimize Aritzia’s data landscape.

Benefits

• Product Discount
• Baby Leave Program — We provide up to 16 weeks of paid time to support you and your growing family.
• A-OK Commissary & Cafe — Everyday Luxury dining, exclusive to Aritzia. Our in-house bistro and cafe is a private oasis where employees can enjoy curated, subsidized Everyday Luxury dining.
• The SET — Our in-office fitness studio and gym with state-of-the-art equipment, custom-created classes and optional personal training. Open 7 days a week, it works out well.
• Aritzia Virtual Wellness — Because your health, happiness and safety matter, we provide 24/7 resources to support you in your wellbeing goals, whether they’re physical, mental, social or financial.
• Aspirational Workplace — Our offices are specially designed to be spaces of creativity, productivity and inspiration. They’re also dog friendly. Woof.
• Amenities — Additional amenities include a private parent’s room, shower facilities with elevated complementary conveniences, bike rooms and more.
• The Extras — We also offer a multitude of other perks like dry-cleaning, hotel and restaurant discounts, self-care promos and on-site medical care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior