What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Architect, Retail position at Bayone?
Role : Enterprise Architect, Retail
Location : San Francisco, CA (onsite - once in a week)
Type : 12 Month / Contract
The Opportunity :
As an Enterprise Architect in Retail, you will work directly with Retail Partners to lead the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap to modernize our retail stores. You will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and architecture decisions across a wide range of retail systems. You'll be responsible for developing cutting-edge solutions that redefine the retail experience and position Sephora as an industry leader. You will play a crucial role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring that our retail systems are designed and developed in alignment with industry best practices and cutting-edge architectural principles. The ideal candidate should possess an in-depth understanding of software architecture, architecture patterns, microservices, cloud-based architectures, and building distributed applications.
Responsibilities :
- Serve as the Enterprise Architect working with technology, product and business leaders to work on strategic goals.
- Lead and guide the technology architecture team in defining and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient architecture solutions for various retail systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust architectural designs.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, and apply them to enhance the company's technology landscape.
- Develop comprehensive and detailed architectural blueprints for retail systems, including client-telling, POS, data management, reporting, etc.
- Champion the use of microservices and cloud-based architectures to create scalable, flexible, and cost-effective omni-channel solutions.
- Drive the development of distributed applications, ensuring seamless integration between different retail systems.
- Build a strategy for in-store and cloud development of applications with data synchronization, high availability in mind.
- Lead architecture in re-defining and modernizing the Retail & Payments Architecture practice which includes championing best architecture practices and modernization of architecture in the cloud and edge.
- Leverage your expertise in Oracle X-Store Suite to design, implement, and maintain retail technology solutions that streamline operations, enhance customer experience, and drive business growth.
- Bring expertise in designing and building next generation cutting POS systems including tablet and mobile POS.
- Build a strategy for in-store hardware, network and system architecture to support the POS, need for loss prevention, AI / ML based systems, augmented reality for beauty products.
- Develop strategy to optimize store operations which would also include in-store services and fulfillment from store.
- Apply expertise in event-based programming and architecture to design real-time, event-driven systems for retail processes and workflows.
- Provide guidance to support different ways for customer no-touch checkout, payment methods like tap to pay.
- Lead architecture in the maturing the process alignment internal and external partners such as other portfolios, Infosec, Enterprise Architecture and vendor partners
- Collaborate with the architecture community on architectural topics for communicating and publishing out to the broader Tech & Engineering teams
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product management, business stakeholders, and IT operations, to ensure alignment of technology solutions with business needs.
- Present technical concepts and solutions in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Build collaborative partnerships with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, technical leads, and key individuals within other functional groups.
- Demonstrate Sephora's values in Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative.
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