• 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.