Solution Architect

Position: Solutions Architect

Location: United States (Remote ; Eastern Time Zone Work Hours)

Type: 12+ month Contract

Pay: $60.00 - $70.00 per hour

Role Description

• Lead the technical architecture initiative for our commerce unification project.
• Project is focused on providing a cohesive approach to product data and metadata management.
• Partner with the Product Operations Manager tasked with coordinating this effort.
• Identify opportunities to apply standard architecture patterns (e.g., event sourcing or microservices), as well as evolutionary patterns (e.g., strangler or revert to source).
• Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards.
• Convert complex requirements and business constraints into highly legible and simplified architecture solutions.
• Communicate and present architecture proposals to business partners, leadership, and engineering teams.
• Define and incorporate non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, availability, scalability, security, etc.) into the design of the final product.
• Guide engineering and other stakeholders on architectural best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to help them execute solutions across their planning & execution cycles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience in information technology or software engineering, with significant experience in solution architecture and technical leadership.
• Proficiency in software architecture, system design, and system integration.
• Strong experience building and managing enterprise ecommerce systems.
• Comfortable providing code design feedback in at least one language. In order of prevalence, we use Node.js, TypeScript, React, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional written communication. You find joy in writing Request for Comments (RFCs) or other software design document formats, presenting them widely, and incorporating feedback.
• Experience driving projects executed by geographically distributed teams.
• Experience with ETL processes and database management (MongoDB) is essential.
• Proficiency with Agile and DevOps methodologies and experience working in Agile development environments.
• Experience with developer platforms and infrastructure-as-code. We use Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes on AWS (EKS).
• Deep knowledge of domain-driven design principles and their application in system architecture.
• Ability to influence across all levels of an organization without formal authority.
• Strong interpersonal skills. You love working with technical and non-technical teams in a dynamic environment of both emerging and established technology solutions.
• Adept at designing solutions for mixed cloud & on-premises environments.

*Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer*

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