Job description
Senior Solutions Architect
Love designing technical solutions and innovating? Is the big picture on your mind? Is it your passion to solve problems and discover answers? We are looking for a motivated and positive individual to lead and help teams create technology solutions that exceed expectations!
Description
Our solutions architecture team works with product teams and other stakeholders on holistic solutions design and delivery. They are responsible for developing a direction for our technology portfolio, building and maturing solutions engineering practices, and enabling future-state business capabilities. As a senior solutions architect, you’ll lead the creation of solution paths for major initiatives, provide architectural guidance to various tech teams, and ensure our technology solutions deliver value and achieve desired business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Define solution paths in accordance with technology architecture strategies and aligned with the technology portfolio to achieve desired business outcomes
- Create guiding principles, roadmaps, decision tools, and other solution design artifacts to direct and inform technical solution delivery
- Partner with product teams and other stakeholders on consultations, research, solution design, and solution delivery
- Assist defining and maturing engineering practices
- Research innovative or emerging technologies and provide recommendations
- Ensure solution economics and total cost of ownership are analyzed when determining future-state of technology ecosystem
- Facilitate architecture and engineering consultation sessions for reviewing technical architecture, decision making, and problem solving
- Collaborate with senior technologists to drive adoption of architecture strategies and decision tools
Education, Experience, and Skills
- Four year technical degree (Computer Science / related discipline) or equivalent training and at least 8 years relevant professional experience
- Minimum of 4 years professional experience in a lead role providing solution architecture
- Experience applying systems thinking principles
- Knowledge of application design principles and experience with modern architectures
- Experience with cloud technologies, including designing and building cloud applications
- Experience researching and leading adoption of innovative or emerging technologies
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Disciplined, focused, and self-motivated
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Attentive to detail and proven decision-making abilities
- Knowledge of and experience with agile and/or lean frameworks
- Knowledge of DevOps and IT operational best practices
- Knowledge of technology protocols and standards
Advantages
- Knowledge of retail and distribution business processes
- Demonstrated experience integrating or converting legacy systems into modern architectures
- Proven history and passion for researching and following industry trends
- Proven experience leading positive organizational change through solution design and delivery
- Proven experience providing technology strategy and data-driven decision making
- Public speaking experience
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