What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect- MarTech position at Jobleads-US?
About Jobleads-us
We are a leading technology company that empowers local grocery brands to better care for their customers.
Category/Area of Expertise
IT & Technology
Job Description:
The Solutions Architect I is responsible for translating business requirements into solution architecture deliverables. They collaborate closely with the Architecture Community and Application/Product teams to ensure that business needs are understood, assessed, and translated into feasible, effective technological solutions.
This is a strategic role, focusing on complex solution design across multiple projects or products. The Solution Architect I will be involved in setting technical direction, mentoring other solution architects, and engaging product leaders and business stakeholders.
Solution Architects engage closely with stakeholders to grasp the business requirements, analyze the technical feasibility of proposed solutions, and create detailed architectural designs that address functional and non-functional requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing technical leadership and guidance during the project execution, making sure the proposed architecture is implemented accurately.
- Evaluating the project's outcome, measuring its results against the expected benefits outlined in the architecture design.
- Acts as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, product teams, and development teams, providing recommendations and influencing decision-making processes for IT solutions and value stream optimization.
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, CIS or related (or equivalent related work experience).
- ~8 or more years of equivalent experience in relevant job or field of technology.
- ~5 or more years' experience directly responsible for guiding, training or onboarding team members in relevant technologies, capabilities or skills.
- ~5 years of Practical Experience in IT Architecture (i.e., solution architecture) plus various software designs and development languages.
- ~ Working Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, microservices, and integration topics like event-driven architecture.
- ~5 years of design, implementation, and/or support of complex application architectures (i.e. having an architectural sense for connecting disparate data sources, structured and unstructured data, etc.) Salesforce, Loyalty Platforms, Adobe, etc.
- ~ Experience leveraging TDD/CI/CD and robust build/test automation, with a preference for cross platform stacks and containerization (Git, Maven, Jenkins, Crucible, Sonar, Docker, AKS etc.).
- ~ Experienced in agile software development lifecycle, and how to drive the technology roadmap concurrent with the feature roadmap.
- ~ Knowledge of budget planning and financial management, esp. a product or application cost to acquire and run.
- ~ Data Security First mindset.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Post graduate degree advanced training and or certifications in relevant field/s of study preferred.
- ~5 or more years experience in Agile teams and Product/Platform based operating model.
- ~ TOGAF, ArchiMate, Cloud Solution Architect)
- ~ Experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipeline.
- ~ Experience interacting with Infrastructure, network, and security aspects.
