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Solution Architect / Principal Software Engineer - Commerce & Engagement Technology

Columbiasportswear
Portland, OR Full Time
POSTED ON 1/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/19/2025

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

Do you have the right skills and experience for this role Read on to find out, and make your application.

At Columbia, we’re as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we’re proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle : “It’s perfect. Now make it better.” As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear’s Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500 geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.

The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. This role ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility and integrations of solutions throughout. This person advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and lift engineering skills within the squad. The role adopts DevOps practices to improve efficiency and confidence of software delivery. This role partners with Architects, Product Managers, and Agile Leaders to implement and refine technical architectural designs in alignment with enterprise standards, and to deliver software in an agile way with continuous improvement in mind.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

  • Development :

Design & Implementation : Responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application. Maintain thoughtful application design that promotes reuse, portability, and ease of code maintenance.

  • Quality and Performance : Establish and manage quality standards, decisions, and implementations. Leverage automation where possible to create efficiency and reliability in delivery of software.
  • Observability : Leverage best practices, technologies, and instrumentation to monitor and observe health, availability, and performance of software in production.
  • Technical Advancement : Employ expert-level DevOps practices to advance the technical foundation of solutions.
  • Innovation : Explore new technologies and ways of software delivery to advance team / business goals.
  • Product Backlog & Roadmap Input : Contribute to the team's backlog to capture work that promotes the team's mission and advances the team's technical foundation.
  • Agile Delivery : Participate in multiple teams' agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review / demo, and retrospectives.
  • Architecture & Design : Partner with Architecture to understand, help define, and adopt enterprise best practices, frameworks, standards, patterns and technology goals.
  • Mentoring / Team Development : Mentor individuals, squads, leaders, and / or organizations on technical delivery and architectural shifts.
  • Vendor Engagement : In partnership with management, engage vendors on their technical roadmaps and inform the team’s future adoption / strategy.
  • YOU ARE

  • Curious and passionate about innovation and technical excellence.
  • Educator and influencer for people at all levels in the organization.
  • Passionate to make the Consumer’s experience seamless and exceptional.
  • Organized and detail-oriented with excellent presentation and communication skills.
  • Self-motivated and able to operate independently within general guidelines.
  • Conceptual & strategic thinker who can convert ideas and concepts into roadmaps and pragmatic plans.
  • Well-versed in cloud technologies and practices especially for AWS and / or Azure.
  • Familiar with DevOps and continuous development practices.
  • Proven ability to respond to different organizational situations while maintaining a positive and friendly attitude.
  • Respectful of others and will uphold Columbia’s values.
  • Able to work efficiently and accurately under pressure, meet deadlines and present a professional demeanor.
  • YOU HAVE

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or an equivalent field.
  • 10 years of experience engineering high-volume, highly available applications in AWS and / or Azure cloud environment.
  • Experience with modern cloud architecture patterns.
  • Experience with Mobile application development.
  • Deep knowledge of Commerce business processes.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum preferred).
  • Ability to learn and understand key business processes and systems.
  • Thought leader and able to define technical strategic roadmaps.
  • Technical skills include AWS (Lamdas, EventBridge, S3, etc), Azure (Service Bus, FunctionApps, Logic Apps), Node.js (Javascript), .NET (C#), automation, observability.
  • Experience leading engineering with both on-shore and off-shore teams.
  • Experience with the following functional / systems areas are preferred :
  • eCommerce (SalesForce Commerce Cloud)

  • Payment Systems (Adyen, ApplePay, etc)
  • Order Management
  • Consumer personalization
  • Loyalty programs
  • This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

    Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

    If you need an accommodation / adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to AskHR@columbia.com with the Subject : Applicant Assistance Requested.

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