What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect position at Summit Tech Partners?
Job Description
The Team:
Responsibilities
Acting as a trusted partner to all business areas, the IT Team leads comprehensive technology delivery, innovation and support across the entire systems landscape in the region. The IT Department's Enterprise Services group is responsible for managing the following core IT disciplines:
Business Intelligence
Business Services
Business Analysis
Process Optimization
Project Management Office
Enterprise Architecture
Architecture
Integration
IT Financial Shared Services
The Opportunity
The Enterprise Services group is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect who will be responsible for providing technical leadership to IT in finding, deploying, or building all possible systems solutions based on clear understanding of the project, an issue, and/or business requirement. This role would work in close partnership with several technical teams in the department, as well as with colleagues from the EA group overseas to ensure the solutions follow established global guidelines as it relates to architecture standards. Acting as an internal advisor, this role would facilitate technology reviews based on their industry knowledge and experience, key EA principles, and the deep understanding of the business need. This role will operate by engaging team members from other areas of the department in a matrixed capacity as needed, and partner with Cybersecurity team to ensure alignment and compliance.
All other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
About The Role
Regular communication with IT specialists and architects from different groups to develop and implement the best solution for the problem being solved.
Close partnership with Business Services team to ensure that the solution being developed is aligned with the business goals and requirements. Help develop solutions for process improvements identified by Business Services team.
Produce the overall architecture of the solution which shows all the detailed technical component specifications as validated by our other IT architects.
Represent IT in obtaining approval of proposed solution and architecture from global Architecture team.
Maintain an updated documentation of our enterprise architecture landscape.
Provide input from the Americas region to the Global Architecture team, and participating in standards definitions as required
Research and understand new technologies and solutions. Document and share best practice knowledge for new solutions.
Closely partner with the Infrastructure Team to build scalable foundations for key technology projects
Perform design, debug, and performance analysis on solutions. Regular assessment of existing solutions for opportunities of improvement and optimization.
Evolve and evangelize the EA practice for the organization, and supporting other regions including Canada and LATAM as it relates to solutions architecture and systems design
Supervisory Responsibility
Yes (matrixed)
Budget Responsibility
No
Decision Making Responsibility
Yes
About You
At least 7 years of hands-on experience in software development or related IT discipline
A Bachelor's degree in IT, computer science, or equivalent
Certificate in solutions architecture-related fields is a plus
Strong understanding of the tools and technologies involved in designing solutions
Requires both technical and interpersonal skills to design, ability to describe and manage solutions in business terms
Outstanding team leadership, communication, and basic project management skills
Background in retail business operations, processes, and technologies (Retail ERP, Warehouse Management System, Financials)
Comfortable interacting with business stakeholders, IT, executive leadership and external vendors
A problem solver excited by challenging initiatives
Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills
Understands data and integration concepts, basic cloud computing and infrastructure technology
Experience in JIRA, MS Office, Service Now, PPM tools, PowerBI, PowerApps is a plus
The Team:
Responsibilities
Acting as a trusted partner to all business areas, the IT Team leads comprehensive technology delivery, innovation and support across the entire systems landscape in the region. The IT Department's Enterprise Services group is responsible for managing the following core IT disciplines:
Business Intelligence
Business Services
Business Analysis
Process Optimization
Project Management Office
Enterprise Architecture
Architecture
Integration
IT Financial Shared Services
The Opportunity
The Enterprise Services group is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect who will be responsible for providing technical leadership to IT in finding, deploying, or building all possible systems solutions based on clear understanding of the project, an issue, and/or business requirement. This role would work in close partnership with several technical teams in the department, as well as with colleagues from the EA group overseas to ensure the solutions follow established global guidelines as it relates to architecture standards. Acting as an internal advisor, this role would facilitate technology reviews based on their industry knowledge and experience, key EA principles, and the deep understanding of the business need. This role will operate by engaging team members from other areas of the department in a matrixed capacity as needed, and partner with Cybersecurity team to ensure alignment and compliance.
All other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
About The Role
Regular communication with IT specialists and architects from different groups to develop and implement the best solution for the problem being solved.
Close partnership with Business Services team to ensure that the solution being developed is aligned with the business goals and requirements. Help develop solutions for process improvements identified by Business Services team.
Produce the overall architecture of the solution which shows all the detailed technical component specifications as validated by our other IT architects.
Represent IT in obtaining approval of proposed solution and architecture from global Architecture team.
Maintain an updated documentation of our enterprise architecture landscape.
Provide input from the Americas region to the Global Architecture team, and participating in standards definitions as required
Research and understand new technologies and solutions. Document and share best practice knowledge for new solutions.
Closely partner with the Infrastructure Team to build scalable foundations for key technology projects
Perform design, debug, and performance analysis on solutions. Regular assessment of existing solutions for opportunities of improvement and optimization.
Evolve and evangelize the EA practice for the organization, and supporting other regions including Canada and LATAM as it relates to solutions architecture and systems design
Supervisory Responsibility
Yes (matrixed)
Budget Responsibility
No
Decision Making Responsibility
Yes
About You
At least 7 years of hands-on experience in software development or related IT discipline
A Bachelor's degree in IT, computer science, or equivalent
Certificate in solutions architecture-related fields is a plus
Strong understanding of the tools and technologies involved in designing solutions
Requires both technical and interpersonal skills to design, ability to describe and manage solutions in business terms
Outstanding team leadership, communication, and basic project management skills
Background in retail business operations, processes, and technologies (Retail ERP, Warehouse Management System, Financials)
Comfortable interacting with business stakeholders, IT, executive leadership and external vendors
A problem solver excited by challenging initiatives
Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills
Understands data and integration concepts, basic cloud computing and infrastructure technology
Experience in JIRA, MS Office, Service Now, PPM tools, PowerBI, PowerApps is a plus
