Infrastructure/Cloud Solutions Architect

Title : Infrastructure / Cloud Solutions Architect

Location : Houston, TX (onsite)

Duration : Direct Hire

Work Requirements : US Citizen, GC Holder or Authorized to work in the

Skills :

• Design and architect cloud-based solutions for our retail management system (RMS) and order management system (OMS), ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of cloud services, platforms, and tools to support the RMS and OMS.
• Develop architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and documentation to guide the implementation and evolution of cloud solutions.
• Define and enforce cloud security policies, standards, and practices to protect our data and assets.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams during the implementation and integration of cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with vendors and partners to evaluate new technologies and drive innovation in cloud computing.
• Monitor and optimize the performance, availability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure and services.

Responsibilities :

• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
• Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work.
• Works with business and technology subject matter experts to derive end-to-end solutions that provide value to the enterprise and these solutions comply with standards and guidelines set forth by Enterprise Architecture.
• Interacts with business leadership to establish a solid working relationship between IT and operations.
• Facilitates the requirements refinement process; with special focus on service-level requirements.
• Collaborates with other parts of IT to ensure a thorough understanding of the proposed architecture; must be willing to accept and factor-in feedback.
• Participates in design reviews to ensure traceability of the design to the proposed solution architecture.
• Contributes to enterprise guidelines, standards and principles as precedents are discovered and adopted.
• Articulates architecture decisions behind the solution architecture.
• Takes initiative in working with business stakeholders to ensure their requirements (immediate and future) will be addressed by IT.

Skills :

• Ability to bridge the gap between waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, and interface effectively with individuals at various levels.
• Ability to build consensus around proposed solutions.
• Ability to work well independently, as well as effectively contribute to a team environment.
• Analytical, with strong problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Preferred skills include strong optimization skills stochastic modeling, optimization algorithms, holistic planning.
• Ability to understand and derive lower-level roadmaps with business leadership to help set requirements' context.

Work Experiences :

• years of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role.
• years of retail experience is preferred.
• Experience in Data Integration patterns and tools.
• Experience in designing solutions in cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
• Understanding of networks and security as it relates to integration and data flow between systems.
• Solid grasp of security in both onprem as well as cloud environments.
• Knowledge of IT Architectural frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman.
• Knowledge of retail supply chain and planning, including merchandising preferred.
• At least two implementations of enterprise class supply chain management systems preferred.
• Strong experience in services (SOA / Microservices) design preferred.
• Strong experience with retailing COTS enterprise class applications preferred.

Education :

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or other related Engineering discipline or relevant field of study required.