What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50 year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The core focus of the IT Solution Architect is creating a sustainable technical architecture. The role is responsible for the design of one or more end to end solutions for a business/IT product or service and the role will work closely with cross functional business and technical teams. The individual has a balanced mix of technical and very strong business skills, working with an enterprise architect for strategic direction. The individual leads the overall technical vision for a particular platform (across all modules) or solution(s) to provide a business product or a business/IT service. The individual can make technical decisions regarding a solution and can articulate how the technology design impacts business outcomes. The development or infrastructure teams use the information to implement the solution to meet business outcomes. The IT Solution Architect role is considered a leader within the SGWS IT organization and will require a strong level of leadership and associated behavior competencies.

Primary Responsibilities

• Deliver and implement appropriate platform solutions for respective area of responsibility
• Define and enforce application development standards across the enterprise
• Ensure solutions designed adhere to enterprise architecture standards
• Stay up to date on new technologies and platform capabilities
• Serve as an expert in application development, database design, and/or platform (operating system) efforts, helping project teams comply with enterprise and application development policies, industry regulations, and best practices
• Work with Enterprise Architects to ensure solutions are in place throughout all IT systems and platforms to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, and to meet business objectives and regulatory requirement
• Communicate risks and solutions to cross functional key stakeholders

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for:
  • how technology can be used to solve a given business problem
  • which framework, platform, or tech-stack can be used to create a solution
  • how the application will look, what the modules will be, and how they interact with each other
  • how things will scale for the future and how they will be maintained
  • figuring out the risk in third-party frameworks/platforms
  • finding a solution to a business proble
  • the sustainability of a solution

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience and education combination

• 8 years of work experience in IT with experience in solutioning technology solutions to meet business needs
• Expert knowledge of solution/application development issues, techniques, and implications across one or more platform including expert/deep technical knowledge in one specific platform such as SAP, Salesforce, or Microsoft
• Broad experience and exposure to a single platform environment to enable the proper perspective and ability to design an application or infrastructure solution
• Can explain to business leaders a Strong understanding of business' processes in order to create a cohesive vision of a usable product

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to analyze and solve problems
• Strong team player who can work across multiple functions and disciplines
• Significant people and process skills
• Change Agent with Managerial Courage

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.