Job Summary
The Solution Architect is expected to support the long-term architecture direction and to drive the organization toward its strategy. The individual will attempt to balance between these long-term strategic objectives and the immediate business requirements.
Skills & Responsibilities:
•Participates in developing vision for a target state architecture with the Strategy and Architecture team.
•Is able to think out-of-the-box to develop solutions that take into account known risks, ease of support, and complexity and cost considerations.
•Solution Architect is expected to gain a high level of expertise within one or more functional and technical areas. This level of expertise will include the business context of the solution
as well as ways of applying the technical infrastructure to best support the solution.
•A minimum of 7 to 10+ year’s progressive experience within an information technology environment.
•5 or more years of industry experience (Retail, Banking or Financial).
•Strong knowledge of online retail, CRM, and Supply Chain solutions.
•Previous Architecture or Technical Team Lead experience on major eCommerce or Supply Chain transformation projects.
•Experience with design and implementation of software in one or more of the following functional areas:
i. Supply Chain (Manhattan WMS, JDA Transportation, JDA Demand & Fulfillment, or similar).
ii. ERP (SAP IS-Retail, SAP CRM or similar).
•Knowledge of architecture methods and standards (e.g. TOGAF).
•Solid knowledge of a variety of technologies/approaches including but not limited to J2EE, .NET, mainframe, packaged application integration, workflow, EAI/ESB, SOA, networking and operating system concepts.