Director Cloud Architecture

About Us:

We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. 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+.

One 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.

About PVH Corp.

PVH 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.

Position Overview:

The 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.

Operating 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.

The 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.

As 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Enterprise Cloud Architecture

• Define, own and continuously evolve PVH’s global AWS cloud architecture strategy and target state, aligned with enterprise technology, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application and business strategies.
• Serve as the recognized enterprise authority for Cloud architecture, providing final technical direction and authoritative recommendations for material cloud architecture decisions across PVH.
• Anticipate technology, business and industry developments and translate them into strategic cloud capabilities, architectural roadmaps and investment priorities for PVH.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior IT and business technology leaders on cloud strategy, architecture, transformation, risk and investment choices.
• Create innovative solutions to unique, highly complex enterprise technology problems where established cloud patterns or standard approaches do not adequately address PVH’s requirements.
• Translate complex technical issues into clear strategic options, recommendations and consequences for senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Establish enterprise reference architectures, principles, decision frameworks, standards and technical guardrails that shape cloud adoption globally.
• Determine and document architectural trade-offs across resilience, security, performance, operational complexity, cost, sustainability and delivery speed.
• Provide architectural leadership for multi-year strategic transformation programs and ensure near-term delivery decisions remain aligned to the long-term target architecture.

Global Cloud Foundation & Platform Strategy

• Own the architectural direction for PVH’s global cloud foundation and landing-zone capabilities across regions and business domains.
• Define, 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.
• Drive the evolution from infrastructure-centric patterns toward reusable, automated, policy-driven and self-service cloud platform capabilities.
• Define the architectural approach for multi-region resilience, disaster recovery, workload placement, service continuity and recovery patterns across critical enterprise workloads.
• Ensure global cloud foundations can support diverse regional, regulatory and business requirements without creating unnecessary fragmentation or technical debt.
• Provide senior architectural input into major technology selections, strategic partnerships and commercial decisions with material cloud implications.

Innovation, Engineering & Automation

• Set the enterprise architectural direction for Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, cloud automation and platform engineering, including Terraform and modern CI/CD practices.
• Identify opportunities to introduce cloud-native services, automation, AI-enabled operations and emerging AWS capabilities that materially improve PVH’s technology landscape.
• Lead evaluation of emerging technologies and, where appropriate, establish new architectural patterns and adoption strategies before they become broadly standardized within PVH.
• Sponsor proofs of concept and technical experiments for high-impact or unprecedented architecture challenges and translate successful outcomes into reusable enterprise capabilities.
• Drive simplification by eliminating unnecessary manual processes, legacy dependencies and duplicated platform capabilities.
• Maintain external awareness of cloud architecture trends, emerging technologies and industry practices and translate relevant developments into PVH strategy.

 
Cloud 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.

Security, Resilience & Operational ExcellencePartner 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.

FinOps & Technology EconomicsEmbed 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, platform engineering or architecture roles.Demonstrated experience acting as a recognized technical authority for cloud architecture within a large, complex, global organization.
• Deep expertise in AWS architecture and enterprise-scale cloud foundations, with the ability to operate credibly from executive strategy through detailed technical design.
• Proven track record of defining global target-state architectures, technology strategies, enterprise standards and multi-year architecture roadmaps.Strong cross-domain expertise spanning cloud infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, identity, data, integration, DevOps, observability, resilience and operations.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation and modern cloud/platform engineering practices.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, architects, engineering teams and strategic partners across organizational and geographic boundaries without relying on direct authority.

Professional Skills

• Enterprise systems thinking with the ability to identify second- and third-order impacts across a complex global technology landscape.
• Exceptional problem-solving capability in ambiguous situations where precedent, standards or established solutions may not exist.
• Ability to move between strategic direction, architecture governance and deep technical detail while maintaining clear accountability for outcomes.
• Executive-level communication and the ability to frame complex architecture choices in terms of business value, risk, cost and strategic consequence.Strong judgment and independence, with the confidence to challenge established approaches and make difficult technical recommendations.
• Ability to build alignment across EMEA, APAC and the Americas and across multiple technology domains and strategic partners.
• Strong mentoring and technical-leadership capability, developing architects and engineers and raising the technical bar across the organization.
• Continuous external orientation with strong awareness of AWS roadmaps, cloud industry developments and emerging technology trends.

Your Wellbeing is Our Priority

In the heart of Amsterdam, PVH is home to the global headquarters of Tommy Hilfiger and the European offices of Calvin Klein.  

• Wellbeing: exclusive onsite gym and fitness classes, personal training, meditation studio, sports clubs, in-house physio, and receive access to our nutritional and wellbeing programs 

• Campus: extensive food and beverage offerings, top-notch restaurant, barista coffee bars, sky bar, monthly social events, weekly Thursday drinks, game nights, and campus-themed activities that will keep your social life busy 

• Develop your career: whether you lead a team or contribute your own expertise, everyone is a leader at PVH. PVH University curates and delivers training programs for you to continuously develop your professional and personal goals 

• Be at the forefront: stay closely connected to our brands, CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER, and be a part of seasonal market launches, sample sales and receive employee discounts! 

Check out our Amsterdam Campus here.

PVH Corp. or its subsidiary ("PVH") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH is also committed to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential.