​Solution 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