Solutions Architect

Job Title: Solutions Architect -
Location: Seattle, WA - Hybrid - Preferring a local resource at this moment

Job Description:

• Lead the design and evolution of technology solutions across the architecture lifecycle, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Project/Program Managers, and Analysts to define project requirements, success criteria, and design guidance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Actively participate in and present at architecture design reviews, advocating for sound design principles and engineering best practices.
• Proactively engage cross-functional stakeholders, gather organizational context, and incorporate insights into architectural decisions.
• Identify and document deviations from future-state architecture, escalating where necessary to maintain architectural integrity.
• Clearly communicate trade-offs in architecture approaches; adapt processes to project and team needs.
• Contribute to the Architecture Community of Practice, sharing knowledge and presenting at internal events to foster alignment and growth across teams.
• Continue to investigate new and innovative technologies to evolve the future state architecture in partnership with other Architects in the department.
• Develop and monitor adherence to integration standards and will utilize these standards to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
• Deep understanding of integration technologies and practices as well as the business acumen to develop overarching system designs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree and/or applicable experience in information/computer technology field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, cloud-based software systems.
• 5+ years of experience in architecting retail/supply chain applications is preferred.
• Proven expertise in cloud platforms, with hands-on experience in AWS (preferred), Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience integrating with Cloud/SaaS applications, API s, SDK of packaged applications and legacy applications.
• Experience building microservices is required.
• Strong capabilities in solutions.
• Experience working and leading in a DevOps operating model utilizing Cloud infrastructure.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a high degree of professionalism in working collaboratively at all levels inside and outside of the organization.
• Strong collaboration skills to achieve business goals collectively across broad teams.
• Challenges the status quo, champions change and influences others to change.
• Strong preference for those with supply chain application experience especially in logistics technology.