IT Solution Architect
***Must reside near the Greater Houston Area since this is a fully onsite role***
Work Experiences:
- 10+ years’ of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role
- 2-3 years of retail experience is preferred
- 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 on-prem as well as cloud environments
- Familiar with vendor management tools and integration with EA tools
- Knowledge of IT Architectural frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman
- Knowledge of retail supply chain and planning, including merchandising preferred
- At least two implementations of enterprise class supply chain management systems preferred
- 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
- Develops a thorough understanding of company’s policies, procedures and safety rules
- Duties may change; Team Member may be required to perform other duties as assigned
Skills:
- Ability to bridge the gap between waterfall and agile methodologies
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, and interface effectively with individuals at various levels
- Ability to build consensus around proposed solutions
- Ability to work well independently, as well as effectively contribute to a team environment
- Analytical, with strong problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills
- Self-motivated, with the ability to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Preferred skills include strong optimization skills – stochastic modeling, optimization algorithms, holistic planning
- Ability to understand and derive lower-level roadmaps with business leadership to help set requirements' context
- Strong Microsoft Office program experience, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint and SharePoint
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or other related Engineering discipline or relevant field of study required
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