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Principal Solution Architect
Boston / Remote, MAPrincipal Solution Architect
This role is with a Syrinx Retail e-Commerce Partner based in Boston, MA
Fully Remote for now - Local candidates preferred (Prefer someone to be on-site post Covid)
The Solution Architecture team will partner and engage directly with leaders across the Domain in planning, crafting, maintaining and executing solutions that are aligned to the roadmaps and architectural principles established by enterprise architecture. As a Principal Solution Architect, you're a part of a highly visible team focused on aligning strategic objectives with tactical demands. You will deliver solution approaches that clearly describe the different views of an architecture required for implementation.
You will engage, collaborate and partner with various functional leaders, technical leaders and executive partners to understand long and short term strategies, provide thought leadership and engage in proactive planning of an executable technology roadmap. These roadmaps will address the strategic and tactical business and technology priorities as well as challenges and intended business outcomes. This role will also be responsible for helping to establish the practice of Solution Architecture and will bring broad experiences in driving quality & consistency in solution architecture approaches and deliverables enterprise wide.
Key Responsibilities
- Develops solution options, recommendations, designs, roadmaps/requirements, enterprise security standards and reference architectures
- Drives and facilitates the right discussions that identify business solutions in relation to current and future technology landscape
- Builds and maintains solution and technology inventories.
- Works closely with architects and engineering to deliver solution architecture artifacts needed for solution architecture approach deliverable
- Ensures architecture alignment across domains and enabling functions (verticals and horizontals)
- Partner with Reference Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to drive prioritization of needed capabilities
- Advocate and drive adoption of standard methodologies to ensure standardization of solution architecture outputs across the enterprise
- Alignment with corporate strategies through strong business and technical thought leadership
- Effectively manage priorities, work and timelines with little need for escalation
WHAT YOU BRING:
- 7+ years of experience in performing the responsibilities of solution architecture and technology roadmap creation Required
- 6+ years combined hands-on engineering experience with public cloud, distributed computing, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), and custom developed solutions
- Experience with SA (AFS or S/4)
- Experience with one of the following Planning Solutions (e.g. SAP IBP, Mi9 Retail)
- Required hands-on coding experience with Java and/or python
- Required experience with AWS or Azure
- Strong facilitation skills and experience in managing senior partner relationship, partnership and interactions
- Experience with API Design and Modeling
§ Nice to Have:
- Experience with Warehouse Management Solutions (e.g. Manh)
- Experience with the Snowflake Data warehousing platform
- Experience with various document formats e.g. (JSON, iDoc, XML) and transformation and orchestration tooling (e.g. Fusion, Apache Nifi, Airflow, Kafka)
- Experience with continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests. Continuous delivery experience preferred
- Strong understanding of DevOps preferred
- Solid understanding of Scrum and Agile principles
- Experience with Domain Driven Design