What are the responsibilities and job description for the Information Technology Solutions Architect (Houston) position at ExecutivePlacements.com?
About Our Client
Our Client is committed to building a workplace where innovation, collaboration, and growth thrive. They take pride in creating an environment that values hard work, accountability, and professional development.
About The Role
This is a senior-level Solutions Architect role with a clear career progression path (Solutions Architect to Senior Architect to Enterprise Architect to Principal Architect). The architect will play a critical role in driving enterprise-wide application consolidation initiatives, supporting process enhancements, and delivering scalable solutions. The role demands a strong background in solution design, fit-gap analysis, and trade-off evaluation across retail, supply chain, infrastructure, or marketing technology domains.
Responsibilities
Our Client is committed to building a workplace where innovation, collaboration, and growth thrive. They take pride in creating an environment that values hard work, accountability, and professional development.
About The Role
This is a senior-level Solutions Architect role with a clear career progression path (Solutions Architect to Senior Architect to Enterprise Architect to Principal Architect). The architect will play a critical role in driving enterprise-wide application consolidation initiatives, supporting process enhancements, and delivering scalable solutions. The role demands a strong background in solution design, fit-gap analysis, and trade-off evaluation across retail, supply chain, infrastructure, or marketing technology domains.
Responsibilities
- Direct the identification and recommendation of solutions, upgrades, or decommissioning options with a focus on usability, productivity, and total cost of ownership
- Develop and execute solutions that minimize reactive work and maximize strategic impact
- Collaborate with business and IT subject matter experts to design end-to-end solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards
- Engage with business leadership to establish strong IT and operations partnerships
- Model solutions across conceptual, logical, and physical perspectives (N 1 views)
- Create architecture artifacts defining end-to-end solution context, data domains, logical, physical, and deployment views
- Facilitate requirements refinement with a focus on service-level requirements
- Participate in design reviews to ensure solution alignment and traceability
- Contribute to the development of enterprise architecture principles, guidelines, and standards
- Clearly articulate architectural decisions to both technical and business audiences
- Engage proactively with business stakeholders to ensure IT addresses immediate and future needs
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field required
- 10 years of experience in IT management or solutions architecture
- 35 years of experience designing solutions in cloud and hybrid environments
- 35 years of experience with data integration patterns and tools
- Understanding of networks and security across on-premise and cloud environments
- Experience with vendor management tools and enterprise architecture integration
- Knowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman
- 2 implementations of enterprise-class supply chain management systems preferred
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build consensus
- Proven ability to balance waterfall and agile methodologies
- Advanced problem-solving and analytical skills
- Retail industry or supply chain experience (merchandising, planning, logistics)
- Experience with enterprise-class retail COTS applications
- Background in SOA/Microservices design
- 23 years of retail industry experience
- Optimization expertise, including stochastic modeling and holistic planning
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and collaboration tools