Technical Architect (Global Architecture & Engineering) - Exempt - REMOTE

City Electric Supply / City IT - 400 South Record St. Dallas, TX 75226

**Please note that while this position primarily operates remotely, we prefer candidates located in proximity to the DFW area, as occasional onsite presence may be required.**

About City Electric Supply:

CES is a global electrical wholesaler, providing electrical products to people in the industry known for its extensive range of products and commitment to customer service. Founded in 1951 in the United Kingdom, it has since expanded to over 1,000 locations across multiple countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe.

We in IT are delivering value to our business and our customers with the innovative solutions that enable our business to better serve our customers today and in the future. We recognize that technology and data are at the forefront of this.

Our Global IT team deliver a portfolio of transformative work, expand our digital options, upgrade and future-proof our systems to place us at the forefront of the marketplace.

To do this, we need talented and creative people across all areas to join us in delivering our evolution to enable our forward-thinking business over the next few years and beyond, and this is where you come in...

Life as a Technical Architect at CES:

The role of Architect will guide the teams to deliver solutions and services that enable City Electric Supply/City Electrical Factors and its customers to leverage the agility from cloud related technologies and business processes.

Working as a member of the department leadership team you will drive the evolution of infrastructure, processes and services, in particular ensuring the development and adoption of architectural guardrails cross the technology domains.

You will provide thought leadership on the creation of services and solutions based on the company vision of moving the legacy eco-system to a flexible microservices and Function As A Service (FaaS) based architecture.

Your Objectives:

• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems in the cloud environment.
• Lead the migration of existing on-premises legacy applications to the cloud, utilizing appropriate patterns such as refactor, replatform, or retain.
• Manage the ingress and egress of data to and from cloud environments.
• Select the most suitable cloud services based on data, compute, database, or security requirements.
• Identify and implement cloud architectural best practices.
• Estimate cloud costs and implement cost control mechanisms.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to architect scalable and highly available application solutions leveraging cloud services.
• Act as a technical leader alongside stakeholders, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Map business requirements to actionable solutions or services.
• Conduct cost/benefit modeling aligned with business KPIs.
• Assist in the design, development, and continuous improvement of delivered services.
• Analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies and assess migration feasibility.
• Generate migration roadmaps across complex legacy ecosystem structures.
• Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).

Key Skills and Experience:

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including group leadership and executive presentations.
• Ability to drive discussions with senior stakeholders regarding trade-offs, best practices, costs, delivery, and risk mitigation.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking about business, service, and technical challenges.
• Deep hands-on experience in designing, developing, and deploying business software at scale, or current hands-on technology infrastructure experience.
• Proficiency with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g., security, privacy, SOX).
• Technical writing skills for documenting environments and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language.
• Experience deploying hybrid systems with on-premises and cloud components.
• Capability to provide best practices for building secure and reliable applications on cloud platforms.
• AWS Certified, preferred Solutions Architect – Professional (training provided if necessary).

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science or related technical/analytical field, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
• Understanding of Enterprise IT management frameworks (e.g., ITIL v3 processes).
• Knowledge of industry compliance and security standards (e.g., PCI DSS, SOC-1&2, ISO 27001).
• Experience working in wholesale and manufacturing environments, ideally within the Electrical Products Industry.

Interview Process:

• 30-minute screening call with Talent Acquisition
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Technical Interview with Architects from the domain
• Interview with Global Head of Technology & Architecture

Benefits Package:

• Competitive base salary
• Paid Holidays & PTO
• 401k Contributions
• Medical, Dental & Vision cover
• Our teams predominantly work remotely but we have an IT Headquarters based in Dallas where you’ll always receive a warm welcome and has striking views of the iconic Dallas skyline!
• Champion Health – a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life including recipes, workouts, blogs and loads of other content for you
• Free use of the state-of-the-art private gym at our IT Headquarters
• Free employee parking at our IT Headquarters

EEO Statement:

City Electric Supply (CES) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics or other protected class status. In additional to the federal law requirements, CES complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. CES also makes reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, in accordance with the ADA. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

City Electric Supply is a drug free workplace.

For further information about CES, visit our website at www.cityelectricsupply.com.