Director Of It Architecture

Company Background:

Genuine Parts Company (“GPC” or the “Company”), founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses with more than 10,000 locations across the world. GPC has approximately 50,000 global employees. The Company has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, France, the U.K., Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and China.

Desired Skills and Ability

70% - Delivery & Execution

Serves as lead architect to communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, and to gain interpersonal dedication from IT and business leaders for enterprise-level architecture, infrastructure (cloud and on-prem), data, software, search, technology, and operational / process initiatives.

Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (infrastructure, UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions

Appropriate assignment of architecture resources, running the architectural work of key initiatives, architectural governance, architectural vision, roadmap, standards & guidelines, patterns, frameworks, and selection of appropriate tools.

Coordinates the function of integrating architecture by establishing reference architectures and design patterns, as well as delivery and support of the key APIs and services.

Responsible for the Data Architecture and Information Management function, which includes crafting, developing, and supporting reporting and analytics environments, data modeling, data warehouses / marts / lakes, and data integration

Responsible for turning requirements into service designs and will engage with our architects and technical teams to drive adherence to the architecture and delivery through the prescribed technology construct.

Leads or writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production

Leads or creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively; contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, or engineering empowerment

20% - Support & Enablement:

Fields questions from other product teams or support teams

Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams

Provides support for all technology running in production

Proactively monitors production SLA / SLO for products

Works with internal stakeholders, vendors, and the open-source community to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products

Works with other product teams to create API specifications and contracts for shared data

Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing

Triages high-priority issues and outages as they arise

10% Learning and Development:

Participates in and leads learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (centers of excellence or communities of practice)

Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations

Attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies where appropriate

Desired Background

Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, and/or a related field plus five years of experience with Salesforce development or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Strong background in designing and developing low-latency enterprise systems.

Proficient in SQL and a working knowledge of relational and time series databases

Proficient in designing APIs, distributed systems, and resilient messaging services

Proficient in microservice architecture, composability, and cloud-based environments and deployments

Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments and scale with the respective business and technology demands

Can provide leadership and mentorship across architecture and delivery teams

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