Solutions Architect - People Systems

Solutions Architect - People Systems

Compensation : DOE

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Collaborate with business partners to understand software needs and define detailed business and technical requirements; translate requirements into technical solutions with developers; provide recommendations and contingency plans.
• Develop applications and integrations architecture in alignment with business strategies and priorities while evaluating the financial, organizational, process and technology tradeoffs of alternative architectures.
• Analyze current enterprise technical environment; identify gaps; recommend and implement solutions for improvement.
• Develop and diagram detailed roadmaps which capture transitional architectures; ensures architecture can move from a current state to a target state.
• Stay current on the latest industry and emerging technologies, reference architectures, patterns, trends and strategies.
• Define and govern solution architectures working collaboratively with Enterprise Architecture to ensure project requirements align with the enterprise's long-term strategies and maintaining a current and accurate enterprise-wide view of key services, capabilities, and processes.
• Facilitate meetings and conference calls with internal stakeholders and 3rd party consultants.
• Document business requirements and capabilities into Business requirements and Technical Design Documents.
• Lead planning workshops / design sessions to envision and assess business needs, features and desired capabilities.
• Work with other internal and external IT staff (HRIS, Identity Team, Network Engineering, Integrations Engineering, etc.) to get work done collaboratively with others.
• Capture, document and design business, application and data flows.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance (QA), developers / engineers and architects to align solutions, identify dependencies, and ensure functional results.
• Conduct feasibility and impact analysis; identify cross-project, application or business unit dependencies; provide solutions to mitigate risk; develop contingency plans for potential impacts.
• Mentor other IT analysts and level I and II architects.
• Assist business stakeholders and vendors by answering questions related to IT processes, procedures and services.
• Record, maintain and manage customer software change requests within the Company's tracking system.
• Complete work in a timely and accurate manner while providing appropriate customer service; driving work to stage gate deliverables (review and give feedback on deliverables, oversee / mentor adherence to template usage, etc.)
• Other duties as assigned.

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Discount Tire provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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