What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Architect position at Insight Global?
Title: Digital Commerce Platform Architect
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $170,000 - $190,000
Interview Process: 2-3 Rounds
Job Description:
Our client is looking for a Digital Platform Architect to join the Data and Platform Architecture team. Our client is in the early stages of a massive customer transformation project and moving 2 of their major commerce platforms to transactional commerce sites. They are looking for a resource who can come in and hit the ground running both technically and from a leadership perspective. They will be about 70% hands on technically with the project, and 30% leadership responsibilities. Ability to strategically scale large initiatives organizationally wide.
Required Skills & Experience:
• 7 years of platform architecture and/or sr. level development experience.
• Digital commerce platform integration, implementation, and deployment experience – B2B digital commerce preferred.
• At least 1 year of leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of MACH architecture (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) • End to end data architecture experience: o Ingestion – processing and transformation (ETL) – storage – analysis – delivery
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines.
• Data processing frameworks – Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Terraform, etc.
• Experience driving AI and data architecture initiatives.
• Solution oriented and ability to communicate effectively across the organization at all levels.
• BA in related field.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience:
• Any relevant certifications in data architecture, data engineering, or cloud platforms o AWS certified data analytics, google cloud professional data engineer, etc.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and compliance standards.
• Experience implementing data security measures.
Salary : $170,000 - $190,000