Principal Enterprise Architect – Product-to-Market / Retail Planning

Principal Enterprise Architect - Product-to-Market / Retail Planning

Location: Onsite in Pleasanton, CA or San Francisco, CA
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM PT
Contract: 12-month W2 contract with possible extension
Pay Rate: $100-$115/hour W2

Russell Tobin is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect - Product-to-Market / Retail Planning to support a leading enterprise retail client. This role will join the Enterprise Architecture team within the CTO organization and support the design, assessment, and evolution of the client’s Product-to-Market ecosystem.

This is a high-impact architecture role focused on retail P2M capabilities, integrated planning, merchandising, allocation, and supply chain alignment. The ideal candidate has deep experience in retail or fashion/apparel environments, composable architecture, API-first integrations, and AI/ML-enabled planning capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the current Product-to-Market landscape and vendor capabilities to identify gaps, redundancies, risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Develop architecture blueprints, capability roadmaps, and recommendations aligned to business outcomes.
• Support enterprise architecture efforts across Line Planning, Buy Planning, Visual Mapping, Space Planning, Size & Pack, Allocation, Consumer Insights, and related retail planning capabilities.
• Provide guidance on composable architecture patterns, API-first integrations, event-driven architecture, and data flow design.
• Partner with Product-to-Market, Engineering, Data, and business teams to evaluate vendors, define integration patterns, and support platform decisions.
• Advise on AI/ML and Agentic AI use cases related to Product-to-Market automation, predictive planning, personalization, content automation, and employee engagement.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, governance processes, investment decisions, and platform consolidation initiatives.
• Produce clear documentation, including architecture diagrams, decision frameworks, capability models, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Translate complex architecture and Product-to-Market concepts into clear business value for senior stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in Product-to-Market, retail planning, supply chain, or enterprise architecture.
• Strong experience supporting retail Product-to-Market capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with merchandising and planning processes, including:
  • Line Planning
  • Buy Planning
  • Allocation
  • Consumer Insights
  • Visual Mapping
  • Space Planning
  • Sizing and Packing
• Experience working in retail, fashion/apparel, client-facing, or DTC brand environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native, API-first, composable, and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Experience evaluating vendor capabilities and designing integration patterns across enterprise platforms.
• Ability to create architecture blueprints, roadmaps, capability assessments, and governance documentation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to business and executive audiences.
• Ability to integrate quickly into an existing team and deliver with minimal ramp-up.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with composable Product-to-Market architecture and MACH architecture principles.
• Familiarity with Agentic AI or LLM applications in Product-to-Market automation, planning, personalization, or employee engagement.
• Experience with AI/ML-driven capabilities such as predictive segmentation, next-best-action, propensity modeling, personalization, and audience intelligence.
• Prior experience supporting large-scale transformation, platform modernization, or architecture governance initiatives.

Core Competencies

• Strong enterprise architecture mindset with hands-on retail planning domain expertise.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborative team player who can work within established governance frameworks.
• Strong documentation, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture direction with practical delivery needs.
  
  

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
 
Fair Chance Employment
Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.
 
Accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us. 
 
Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.
 
#RTA