Enterprise solutions architect

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap
• Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build
• Design and document re-usable and scalable frameworks and components
• Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives
• Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are built for the enterprise
• Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI
• Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions
• Collaborate with Product Management, Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from concept to implementation
• Serves as primary technical solution design architect for one or more teams and their systems and integrations
• Serves as primary decision escalation resource for addressing architecture and integration issues affecting their team
• Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance, security, automation, quality, monitoring, and reliability of platforms
• Develops and maintains current and future-state architecture models and ensures all documentation is kept up to date
• Keeps up with industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and develop proof of concept projects to validate new ideas

Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Personal Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience including 5+ years in architecting enterprise applications using modern integration technologies
• Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry, familiar with application systems and business practices in this realm
• Experience solutioning end-to-end full-stack applications, integration of SaaS and PaaS systems
• Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 3-5 years
• Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools
• Excellent team player, ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience in mentoring technical team-members and providing technical leadership
• Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns
• Experience working in a SAFe ® /Agile environment
• Experience contributing to multiple medium to large size initiatives simultaneously
• Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data at massive scale like Confluent Kafka).
• Experience with AWS or other public clouds from a system design perspective
• Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes or other container schedulers