Job Description

Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands.
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
Ralph Lauren is looking for an experienced, self-directed, and highly motivated Technology Manager to lead and deliver enterprise-grade, Mobile APP Development process across our frontend and backend stack-spanning React Native, AWS, GraphQL and well versed with developing Mobile commerce specific applications and design patterns like Singleton, adaptor, factory patterns-while orchestrating the delivery work with external SI partners. He/She would need to act as an anchor between technical execution and business outcomes, ensuring delivery quality, scalability, and partner alignments. In addition to this, having exposure to SFCC SCAPI commerce platform can be considered as an added advantage.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• End-to-End Delivery Management

Plan, manage, and deliver medium to large-scale composable projects. Define delivery milestones, resource allocation, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Mobile App Development and Architecture Leadership

Interpret and apply composable principles-modularity, autonomy, API-first design, reusability, Scalability

• Technology Oversight

Guide development teams using React Native, SFCC SCAPI , GraphQL, and relevant front-end and Microservices frameworks. Ensure best practices in micro-frontends, API layer, CI/CD, observability, and cloud architecture

• Partner & Stakeholder Coordination

Serve as the primary liaison with external SI partners. Manage delivery scope, SLAs, integration boundaries, and co-ordinate plan-of-record adjustments.

• Technical & Architectural Mentorship

Mentor internal and partner engineers on architectural standards, code quality, reusable modules, component libraries, and test frameworks.

• Agile Team Leadership

Oversee Agile delivery processes-sprints, PI planning, backlog grooming, reviews. Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and retrospectives.

• Client & Vendor Management

Lead delivery reviews, interfacing with vendor leadership and internal stakeholders. Address escalations and risk collaboratively.

• Governance & Documentation

Produce architecture decision records, API contracts, component documentation, onboarding guides, and API gateway policies (Apigee).

• Tools & Ecosystem Building

Curate internal repositories of reusable APIs, UI components, templates, patterns, and documentation.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
Technical & Architectural Skills :

• 12+ years in software development or delivery, including 5+ years delivering Customer-Facing Mobile Commerce applications.

• Any experience in SFCC Commerce Cloud and integration with OCAPI/SCAPI will be added to the advantage

• Deep hands-on experience in architecting and developing React Native

• Proficiency with SFCC SCAPI API management platforms.

• Familiarity with micro-frontends, containerization, CI/CD, and cloud deployment patterns.

Delivery & Leadership :

• Track record as Lead/Manager/Scrum Master in delivery roles overseeing internal teams and third-party SI partners.

• Excellent stakeholder management-coordinating across technical, non-technical, and vendor teams.

Soft Skills :

• Proven communicator with strong presentation and persuasion skills.

• Process improvement mindset-enthusiastic about driving efficiency, quality, and reusability.

Education :

• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.

Skills Required