Solution Architect - Remote

The Solution Architect is responsible for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet functional and non-functional (e.g. performance, security, and operational considerations) requirements in support of a given initiative. Plays a role in establishing architectural vision and direction, architects solutions, provides advice and guidance, monitors emerging technologies, and assists in software and service procurements. Works collaboratively with the business to understand the business/product roadmap to develop architectural vison and direction.
Architecture Vision and Direction:
Contributes to the technology strategy by identifying, assessing and recommending external trends in technology and methodologies
Assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize reuse of technology
Exercises solution design leadership on initiatives, driving alignment to target architecture and design standards
Facilitates architecture reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and consistency across organizational and design boundaries
Solution Architecture Development: Creates solution options and solution architecture, adhering to architectural standards and the technology roadmap, and minimizing technical debt
Designs and Develops solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains
Ensures non-functional requirements are satisfied
Involved in every aspect of lifecycle (from requirements to deployment assisting in design and triage of defects)
Drives alignment between architecture and business needs.
Participates in application rationalization and the development of application architecture roadmaps
Identifies applications and platforms impacted by the solution, the need for new platforms, and drives platform selection
Contributes to backlog of development team
Facilitates large groups of diverse stakeholders to consensus on target solution
Advice & Guidance:
Initiates guidance and oversight, ensures the viability of proposed solutions, and provides direction on the appropriate approach to the solution throughout the project, and ensures appropriate and complete unit/system/load testing and code review
Communicates architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery team and other stakeholders
Performs due diligence during potential mergers and acquisitions
Relationship Management:
Builds effective relationships between IT, business users, and internal/external service providers
Effectively communicates relevant information to stakeholders and teams
Emerging Technology Monitoring: Evaluates emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies to define a future vision roadmap for optimal application of technology to meet business needs
Conducts Proof of Concept for feasibility studies
Recommends improvements to processes and technology that improve the effectiveness of the team
Strategic Sourcing: Oversees and facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology, as well as the design of standard configurations for a particular project
Inspires technology policies, practices, and decisions which recognize the current and evolving needs of all the stakeholders
Validate that the delivery team operates according to the principles embedded in relevant standards
Solution Architecture:
Ability to: Lead the design of technical solutions for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers
Design and Develop solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains
Advice & Guidance: Ability to: Provide leadership and guidelines to promote the development and exploitation of technical knowledge in the organization
Effectively communicate technical concepts, options, and implications to non-technical stakeholders in written, verbal, and diagrammatic forms (and vice versa)
Work with cross-functional architect teams to develop optimal solutions to complex issues
Relationship Management:
Ability to: Build long-term, strategic relationships with senior business and IT stakeholders
Emerging Technology Monitoring: Ability to: Coordinate the identification and assessment of new and emerging technologies, products, methods and techniques. Evaluate likely relevance of these for the organization
Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education
Experience designing, developing, and delivering technology solutions
Experience architecting complex, multi-system solutions
Experience developing architecture principles and standards
Retail domain experience
10 plus years of experience in multiple languages including JavaScript, Java, SPRING, HTML, XML JSON etc.
Design and development experience in building large scale ecommerce and search platforms.
Over 4 years of experience working in Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware) or similar platforms.
Experience in API development and integration with 3rd Party systems (SOAP/REST) such as Master Data, Payment, Order Management, CRM, CMS systems.
Competent in relational and non-relational databases.
Experience working with Cloud platform experience (GCP, Azure, AWS, etc) and developing solutions.
Experience architecting in micro services-based solution and headless architecture.
Knowledge / Skills Requirements:
Working knowledge of specific platform internal architecture
Working knowledge of troubleshooting specific platform issues
Performance Architect: Performance Architect Development: Partners with QE team, assisting with creating and refining effective performance test objectives, test plans, and scenarios that help the organization achieve quality requirements
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