Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Location: Seattle, WA - local only for hybrid model


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Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap.
• Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build.

• Design and document re-usable and scalable frameworks and components.
• Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives.
• Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are built for the enterprise.
• Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI.
• Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from concept to implementation.
• Serves as primary technical solution design architect for one or more teams and their systems and integrations.
• Serves as primary decision escalation resource for addressing architecture and integration issues affecting their team.
• Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance, security, automation, quality, monitoring, and reliability of platforms.
• Develops and maintains current and future-state architecture models and ensures all documentation is kept up to date.
• Keeps up with industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and develop proof of concept projects to validate new ideas.

Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Personal Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.


• 10+ years of software engineering experience including at least 2 years at a retail/supply-chain organization in Solution Architect capacity.


• Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry, familiar with application systems and business practices in this realm.


• Experience solutioning end-to-end full-stack applications, integration of SaaS and PaaS systems.


• Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 3-5 years.
• Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools.
• Excellent team player, ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in mentoring technical team-members and providing technical leadership.
• Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns.
• Experience working in a SAFe ® /Agile environment.
• Experience contributing to multiple medium to large size initiatives simultaneously.
• Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data at massive scale like Confluent Kafka).
• Experience with AWS or other public clouds from a system design perspective.
• Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes or other container schedulers.