E2E Solutions Architect II - Distribution & Transportation

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, product teams, and development teams, providing technical recommendations and influencing decision-making processes for IT solutions and value stream optimization.
• Responsible for developing and reviewing the solution architecture (blueprint) for products and value streams, including interaction requirements for components, subsystems, and interfaces.
• Designs future-proof and scalable solutions considering hardware, infrastructure, and data constraints.
• Ensures license efficiency and compliance with vendor guidelines within the solution architecture.
• Promotes simplicity in IT solution design by re-using existing assets across the enterprise.
• Contributes to the creation of IT and Architecture standards and guidelines to define overall solution architecture.
• Mentors and provides technical guidance to other Solution Architects and product team members.
• Identifies non-functional requirements and ensures architecture meets performance, security, scalability, and availability standards.
• Leads the assessment and adoption of new technologies and methodologies to provide a competitive advantage.
• Reviews IT solution engineering designs for compliance with architecture standards, policies, and procedures.
• Advises program and project teams to embed security, privacy, and regulatory needs into solution design and execution.
• Communicates and presents solution architecture designs to Enterprise Architects and architecture forums.
• Evaluates project outcomes against expected benefits and recommends improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in technology or related fields.
• 8+ years of experience in an advanced or technical leadership role, guiding or onboarding team members.
• 8+ years of practical experience in IT architecture, software design, and development languages.
• Working knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, microservices, and integration topics like event-driven architecture.
• 10+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting complex application architectures.
• Practical experience with CI/CD practices, build/test automation, containerization (e.g., Docker, AKS), and cross-platform stacks.
• Experience with agile software development lifecycle and technology roadmap alignment.
• Experience in budget planning and financial management of products or applications.
• Excellent leadership, communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

Nice to Have

• Master's Degree in relevant field of study or additional certifications (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, Cloud Solution Architect).
• 8 years of experience in Agile teams and product/platform operating models.
• Experience in retail or grocery industry.
• Practical experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Experience interacting with infrastructure, network, and security aspects of product development.
• Experience supporting IT Supply Chain applications, especially in Distribution & Transportation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in technology.
• 8+ years of experience in an advanced or technical leadership role.
• 8+ years of experience guiding or onboarding team members.
• 8+ years of practical experience in IT architecture and software design.

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range from $120,960 to $181,440 depending on location, with higher ranges for IL/MA/MD.
• Flexible/hybrid work schedule with 3 in-person days and 2 remote days.
• Supportive work environment emphasizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Investment in personal and professional growth, wellness, and community engagement.