IT Solution Architect

IT Solution Architect

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or other related Engineering discipline or relevant field of study required.
• 10+ years of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role.
• Experience in Data Integration patterns and tools.
• Experience in designing solutions in cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
• Understanding of networks and security as it relates to integration and data flow between systems.
• Solid grasp of security in both onprem as well as cloud environments.
• Familiar with vendor management tools and integration with EA tools.
• Knowledge of IT Architectural frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman.
• Strong experience in services (SOA/Microservices) design preferred.
• Strong experience with retailing COTS enterprise class applications preferred.

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 which further 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 these solutions comply with standards and guidelines set forth by Enterprise Architecture.
• Interacts with business leadership to establish a solid working relationship between IT and operations.
• Must be able to model 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 special focus on service-level requirements.
• Collaborates with other parts of IT to ensure a thorough understanding of the proposed architecture; must be willing to accept and factor-in 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.
• Takes initiative in working with business stakeholders to ensure their requirements (immediate and future) will be addressed by IT.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-3 years of retail experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of retail supply chain and planning, including merchandising preferred.
• At least two implementations of enterprise class supply chain management systems preferred.
• Preferred skills include strong optimization skills – stochastic modeling, optimization algorithms, holistic planning.