ABOUT OUR CLIENT
Our Client is committed to building a workplace where innovation, collaboration, and growth thrive. They take pride in creating an environment that values hard work, accountability, and professional development.
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is a senior-level Solutions Architect role with a clear career progression path (Solutions Architect to Senior Architect to Enterprise Architect to Principal Architect). The architect will play a critical role in driving enterprise-wide application consolidation initiatives, supporting process enhancements, and delivering scalable solutions. The role demands a strong background in solution design, fit-gap analysis, and trade-off evaluation across retail, supply chain, infrastructure, or marketing technology domains.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Direct the identification and recommendation of solutions, upgrades, or decommissioning options with a focus on usability, productivity, and total cost of ownership
- Develop and execute solutions that minimize reactive work and maximize strategic impact
- Collaborate with business and IT subject matter experts to design end-to-end solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards
- Engage with business leadership to establish strong IT and operations partnerships
- Model solutions across conceptual, logical, and physical perspectives (N+1 views)
- Create architecture artifacts defining end-to-end solution context, data domains, logical, physical, and deployment views
- Facilitate requirements refinement with a focus on service-level requirements
- Participate in design reviews to ensure solution alignment and traceability
- Contribute to the development of enterprise architecture principles, guidelines, and standards
- Clearly articulate architectural decisions to both technical and business audiences
- Engage proactively with business stakeholders to ensure IT addresses immediate and future needs
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field required10+ years of experience in IT management or solutions architecture3–5 years of experience designing solutions in cloud and hybrid environments3–5 years of experience with data integration patterns and toolsUnderstanding of networks and security across on-premise and cloud environmentsExperience with vendor management tools and enterprise architecture integrationKnowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman2+ implementations of enterprise-class supply chain management systems preferredStrong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build consensusProven ability to balance waterfall and agile methodologiesAdvanced problem-solving and analytical skillsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Retail industry or supply chain experience (merchandising, planning, logistics)Experience with enterprise-class retail COTS applicationsBackground in SOA / Microservices design2–3 years of retail industry experienceOptimization expertise, including stochastic modeling and holistic planningStrong proficiency with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and collaboration tools