Job Description
Job Summary: Our client is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join their team! This position is located in Katy, Texas.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement solutions in cloud and hybrid environments, focusing on data integration.
- Collaborate with business and technology teams to develop end-to-end solutions.
- Participate in architecture design reviews and refine requirements.
- Create artifacts defining the architecture across the full solution lifecycle.
- Tailor solutions to business needs.
- 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
- Develops a thorough understanding of Academy’s policies, procedures and safety rules
- Duties may change; Team Member may be required to perform other duties as assigned
Key Requirements:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 10+ years in IT Management or IT Solutions Architecture.
- Retail Experience: 2-3 years (preferred).
- Essential: Retail and CDP experience.
- Expertise in integrating CDPs with marketing technologies (Salesforce, Adobe, etc.).
- Preferred: Knowledge of retail supply chain and planning, including merchandising.
- Experience in planning for large-scale, long-term growth and scalability.
Skills:
- Profound knowledge of data integration patterns and tools.
- Expertise in cloud and hybrid solution design.
- Strong understanding of security, networking, and integration.
- Familiarity with CDP integration and marketing tech stack.
- Experience with TOGAF and Zachman frameworks.
- Hands-on architecture experience (in retail systems like Oracle RMS or digital eCommerce architecture).
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary.
- Opportunity to work with a cutting-edge tech stack.
- Thriving environment for innovation.
- Growth opportunities within the company.
Pay range and compensation package: $122,500 - $175,000 (est. annual rate)
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