Director, Platform Architecture
Core
Define and scale Deckers' modern data and analytics platform architecture, ensuring it is secure, scalable, governed, and optimized for performance and cost.
Role type
Director, Platform Architecture
Builds
Cloud-native data platform services enabling analytics, AI, and domain-driven data products across the enterprise
Domain
Retail / Consumer Products / E-commerce / Cloud Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
AWS cloud services expertise, distributed systems design, data platform architecture, leadership, cross-functional influence, technical standards definition, vendor evaluation
Preferred skills
Master's degree, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, retail industry experience
Technologies
AWS (S3, Redshift, Glue, Lake Formation, EMR, Kinesis, IAM, VPC, CloudTrail), Parquet, Iceberg
Responsibilities
Define and maintain architectural blueprint and reference architecture for the cloud-native data platform, establish principles for scalability and security, partner with domain architects to ensure reusable platform services, lead evaluation of core platform technologies, provide architectural leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, define standards for metadata capture and data quality
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical guidance
