Minimum of 8 years’ experience in Solution Architecture; related experience and/or education may be considered
3+ years’ experience with CICD, Azure pipelines, Microservices, API
3+ first approach, Cloud native and headless ecommerce architecture
Experience with commercetools, Kentico Cloud and REST APIs, SOA preferable Hands on experience with FE frameworks (Angular, Vue, React) and development experience with MVC, .Net core, and JS framework webapps, Python a plus.
Experience with Azure Cloud preferred, specifically - Web Jobs, Azure Queue, Azure Web Apps, App Service Plans, Sql Azure, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, The Digital Ecommerce Solutions Architect will use his/her technical and functional capacities to build effective architecture standards, data models and a reference architecture that is robust, yet flexible and scalable. S/he is a storyteller, who uses that mindset to connect to the client Digital product squads across the breadth of our digital initiatives including AI/ML. S/he brings a product management mindset to Digital Architecture team.
Key areas of responsibility:
• Align with ecommerce product roadmap and create, maintain best practices and design documents in conformance with laid out enterprise architecture, digital architecture policies/practices.
• Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise and segment business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.
• Lead and participate in architecture guild calls and help mature architectural practice across digital organization • Lead PoC/PoV development in a more hands on manner.
• Develop executive presios, functionality and technology roadmaps, as needed for executive briefings.
• Collaborate and develop xSBU architectures, in alignment with needs of Client teams • Help mature Agile and Lean principles and practices • Contributes recommendations and implementation strategies for new technologies.
• Grow the maturity of Solution Architecture through the introduction of Evolutionary Architecture concepts and providing consulting support to application architects within projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Design, document, and communicate incremental and target state reference architectures.
• Proactively evaluate, design and promote new products, processes, technologies and solutions.
• A self-driven, highly- motivated technologist who can work with a high degree of autonomy and is able to prioritize effectively.
• A business- minded person who can work collaboratively and has proven experience in creating influence across product teams, delivery, Digital and IT to drive technical efforts.
• Someone who is articulate and can effectively communicate with technical teams, non[1]technical business leaders, and clients