Solutions Architect

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Flexible work from home days
3x on site a week.
Job Description:
The Solutions Architect – Retail Store advances our world class capabilities by applying hands-on solutions architecture to deliver against both Retail Store projects and broader organizational goals.. Partnering with technical and business stakeholders, they identify design, and create technology solutions that meet the needs of our corporation and its guests. They ensure every solution they create is sustainable by adhering to enterprise technology standards, including DevOps, change management, and security.

Responsibilities:
Solution Architecture Delivery (80%) 

• Review incoming project demand to identify architectural implications. 
• Partner with business teams to review solution requirements & devise solution options. 
• Lead the development of project solution designs, subject to Architecture Board review. 
• Produce and maintain detailed and easy to understand technical architecture artifacts.
• Identify architectural risks and opportunities, ensuring appropriate decisions are taken. 
• Ensure project estimates are informed by design approaches and delivery options. 
• Oversee delivery efforts; guide the team on technical issues to ensure project success. 
• Manage and proactively minimize technical debt
• Ensure designs are holistic and viable as to enable predictable, on-time delivery.
• Ensure resilience, stability, availability, and recoverability are designed into the platform. 
• See, communicate, and devise plans to mitigate risk thru architectural approaches.
• Contribute to assessments of technologies, advising leadership on selection decisions.  
• Contribute to and follow principles, standards, and patterns for assigned domain. 
• Establish where industry trends and product / platform evolutions may be leveraged. 
• Define and evangelize current and target-state architectures and plans to mature. 

Partner Collaboration (20%) 

• Participate and contribute to communities of practice
• Ensure cross-architectural alignment of assigned tech areas with peer areas. 
• Engage with the Architecture Board to ensure sound decisions on architectural matters. 
• Contribute to the Enterprise Technology Catalog for assigned technology areas.  
• Be a coach and mentor to development and operations teammates. 
• Be an advisor to business teammates and IT management. 
• Liaise with peer technology teams and technology vendors.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related study, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of IT/development experience and 5 years of solution architecture experience preferred.
• Prior experience and familiarity with Microsoft Azure, one or more programming languages, one or more DevOps technologies, one or more analytics technologies, and one or more architecture modeling technologies preferred.
• Proficiency in POS (Point of Sale) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, with a background in retail industry applications preferred.
• Experience in Java and .NET programming languages, demonstrating the ability to develop and maintain software solutions preferred.
• Strong experience with API development and testing is required.
• Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis, and design, and/or client/server systems. Prior experience using agile methodologies required.
• Experience in platform integration preferred.
• Prior experience working with protected data elements preferred.
• Proven experience succeeding in complex, matrix, and cross-functional projects.
• Ability to personally deliver large scale initiatives in a fast-paced environment with high levels of complexity and ambiguity.
• Experience and comfort managing indirect teams; scrums, agile cross functional teams, vendor stakeholders
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team-based environment including employees, vendors, and third-party contractors.
• Excellent written, presentation and oral communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and functional audiences.