Primary Services is excited to announce the role of IT Solutions Architect for our prestigious client in the retail industry. This role is ideal for a seasoned professional with a robust background in IT Management and Solutions Architecture. You will leverage your expertise to design and implement innovative IT solutions in cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring seamless integration and data flow while maintaining security standards.

Responsibilities:

• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership
• Develops and executes solutions to reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work
• Works with business and technology subject matter experts to derive end-to-end solutions that provide value to the enterprise and comply with standards and guidelines set by Enterprise Architecture
• Interacts with business leadership to establish a solid working relationship between IT and operations
• Models solutions from conceptual, logical, and physical perspectives (N 1 views)
• Creates artifacts that define the N 1 views of the end-to-end solution (context, data domain, logical, physical, and deployment)
• Facilitates the requirements refinement process with a special focus on service-level requirements
• Collaborates with other parts of IT to ensure a thorough understanding of the proposed architecture; incorporates feedback
• Participates in design reviews to ensure traceability of the design to the proposed solution architecture
• Contributes to enterprise guidelines, standards, and principles as precedents are discovered and adopted
• Articulates architecture decisions behind the solution architecture
• Engages with business stakeholders to ensure their requirements (immediate and future) are addressed by IT

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field required
• 10 years of experience in IT Management or Solutions Architecture roles
• 2-3 years of experience in retail preferred
• Proficiency in Data Integration patterns and tools
• Experience designing solutions in cloud and hybrid cloud environments
• Solid grasp of security in both on-premises and cloud environments
• Familiarity with vendor management tools and integration with EA tools
• Knowledge of IT Architectural frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman
• Experience with retail supply chain and planning, including merchandising preferred
• Strong experience in services (SOA/Microservices) design preferred
• Experience with retailing COTS enterprise-class applications preferred
• Ability to bridge the gap between waterfall and agile methodologies
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build consensus around proposed solutions
• Capable of working independently and contributing effectively in a team environment
• Analytical skills with strong problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint

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