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Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.\nOne of PVH’s greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging.Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at PVH here.\nAbout PVH Corp.\nPVH is one of the most admired fashion and lifestyle companies in the world. We power brands that drive fashion forward - for good. Our brand portfolio includes the iconic CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER brands.We market a variety of goods under these and other nationally and internationally known owned and licensed brands. PVH has over 40,000 associates operating in over 40 countries and $9.2 billion in annual revenues. That is the Power of Us. That is the Power of PVH.\nPosition Overview:\nThe Director, Cloud Architecture is PVH’s recognized enterprise technical authority for cloud architecture and is accountable for defining the global target-state architecture, strategic technology direction and architectural guardrails across PVH. The role operates across EMEA, the Americas and APAC and influences cloud decisions spanning infrastructure, applications, security, data, integration, resilience, operations and financial management.\nOperating at enterprise level, this role addresses unique and highly complex technology challenges where established patterns are insufficient, fragmented or do not yet exist. The Director is expected to create innovative architectural approaches, resolve cross-domain constraints and make authoritative recommendations that balance business outcomes, risk, security, resilience, cost, speed and long-term technology strategy.\nThe role is not limited to applying existing cloud practices. It establishes new enterprise patterns and target-state capabilities, determines when industry or best practices must be adapted to PVH’s specific global requirements, and provides technical direction for strategic transformation initiatives, including cloud migration, data center exit, modernization, disaster recovery and the continued evolution of PVH’s global cloud foundation.\nAs a senior individual contributor, the Director provides enterprise-wide technical leadership without requiring direct people-management authority. The role represents Global Cloud & Infrastructure in architecture and governance forums, acts as a trusted advisor to senior technology leaders, and influences engineering teams, strategic partners and vendors across organizational boundaries.\nKey Responsibilities:\nStrategic Leadership & Enterprise Cloud Architecture\nDefine, own and continuously evolve PVH’s global AWS cloud architecture strategy and target state, aligned with enterprise technology, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application and business strategies.\nServe as the recognized enterprise authority for Cloud architecture, providing final technical direction and authoritative recommendations for material cloud architecture decisions across PVH.\nAnticipate technology, business and industry developments and translate them into strategic cloud capabilities, architectural roadmaps and investment priorities for PVH.\nAct as a trusted technical advisor to senior IT and business technology leaders on cloud strategy, architecture, transformation, risk and investment choices.\nCreate innovative solutions to unique, highly complex enterprise technology problems where established cloud patterns or standard approaches do not adequately address PVH’s requirements.\nTranslate complex technical issues into clear strategic options, recommendations and consequences for senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nEstablish enterprise reference architectures, principles, decision frameworks, standards and technical guardrails that shape cloud adoption globally.\nDetermine and document architectural trade-offs across resilience, security, performance, operational complexity, cost, sustainability and delivery speed.\nProvide architectural leadership for multi-year strategic transformation programs and ensure near-term delivery decisions remain aligned to the long-term target architecture.\nGlobal Cloud Foundation & Platform Strategy\nOwn the architectural direction for PVH’s global cloud foundation and landing-zone capabilities across regions and business domains.\nDefine, in partnership with Security and Network domain leaders, enterprise standards for, as example, account strategy, identity and access, networking, connectivity, DNS, logging, monitoring, encryption and security controls.\nDrive the evolution from infrastructure-centric patterns toward reusable, automated, policy-driven and self-service cloud platform capabilities.\nDefine the architectural approach for multi-region resilience, disaster recovery, workload placement, service continuity and recovery patterns across critical enterprise workloads.\nEnsure global cloud foundations can support diverse regional, regulatory and business requirements without creating unnecessary fragmentation or technical debt.\nProvide senior architectural input into major technology selections, strategic partnerships and commercial decisions with material cloud implications.\nInnovation, Engineering & Automation\nSet the enterprise architectural direction for Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, cloud automation and platform engineering, including Terraform and modern CI/CD practices.\nIdentify opportunities to introduce cloud-native services, automation, AI-enabled operations and emerging AWS capabilities that materially improve PVH’s technology landscape.\nLead evaluation of emerging technologies and, where appropriate, establish new architectural patterns and adoption strategies before they become broadly standardized within PVH.\nSponsor proofs of concept and technical experiments for high-impact or unprecedented architecture challenges and translate successful outcomes into reusable enterprise capabilities.\nDrive simplification by eliminating unnecessary manual processes, legacy dependencies and duplicated platform capabilities.\nMaintain external awareness of cloud architecture trends, emerging technologies and industry practices and translate relevant developments into PVH strategy.\n\nCloud Migration, Modernization & Transformation Provide enterprise architecture leadership for global workload migration and modernization into AWS, including strategic data center exit initiatives.Determine target migration and modernization approaches for complex workloads, including rehost, re-platform, refactor, retire, retain and adoption of cloud-native or managed services.Challenge migration designs that unnecessarily reproduce legacy data center constructs in AWS and define pragmatic alternatives aligned with PVH’s target architecture.Resolve complex cross-domain architecture issues involving applications, networking, identity, security, data, integration, resilience, operations and regulatory constraints.Ensure transformation decisions balance immediate program objectives with enterprise architecture, long-term maintainability and avoidance of structural technical debt. Challenge vendor recommendations where they do not align with PVH’s enterprise architecture, risk posture or long-term strategic objectives.Provide senior architectural input into major technology selections, strategic partnerships and commercial decisions with material cloud implications.\n\nSecurity, Resilience & Operational Excellence Partner with Security, Risk and Enterprise Architecture to embed secure-by-design, zero-trust and policy-as-code principles into global cloud architecture.Define enterprise cloud resilience principles and architectural standards for availability, disaster recovery, backup, observability, performance and recoverability.Provide senior technical leadership for critical architecture risks, major incidents and systemic reliability challenges where cross-platform or enterprise-level decisions are required.Shape SRE, observability and operational architecture in partnership with engineering teams and strategic operations partners.Ensure architecture decisions address lifecycle supportability, operational maturity and global service continuity.\n\nFinOps & Technology Economics Embed cloud economics and FinOps principles into strategic architecture decisions and target-state designs.Provide architectural direction on material cost/performance/resilience trade-offs and challenge designs that create avoidable long-term cloud cost or commercial dependency.Partner with FinOps, Engineering, Finance and application teams to influence consumption models, service selection, lifecycle management and optimization strategy.Assess strategic technology choices for total cost of ownership, operational complexity, licensing implications and long-term business value.\nQualifications & Experience\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\nTypically 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, platform engineering or architecture 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