Solution Architect

Skills

• Own and drive the strategic architecture vision and the technologies required to ensure delivery of business solutions at Skechers. • Represent the Software Engineering & Architecture group in end-to-end solution conversations with customers and stakeholders. • Participate in strategizing the modernization of the overall technology ecosystem with the head of Software Engineering and Architecture. • Demonstrate skills at defining and documenting business and functional requirements for ongoing system improvement initiatives in iterative software development environments and can serve as a liaison between both business and technical teams to drive effective timely solutions that fulfill both strategic and operational needs. • Demonstrate leadership skills in driving and owning solutions. • Participate in providing mentoring support and guidance to team members to help grow skills and capabilities of the AWS practice • Actively contribute to a culture of high performance innovation and continuous improvement. • Serve as a subject matter expert in processes and methodologies with the ability to adapt and improvise in different situations. • Build trust and confidence with solutions to various business stake holders assuring expected tech outcomes and desired results. • Own the writing and presenting of presentations around end-to-end architecture strategies solutions and best practices to stakeholders. • Working with business closely to collect requirements converting into functional and tech requirements for internal team to deliver. • Design solutions and engage with development teams until delivery to review the requirement traceability meeting business needs and expected outcome. • Define architectural patterns set standards for tech team to deliver solutions based on previous implementations.

Description

• 5+ years of experience with technical systems analysis, solutions, and working with teams on software implementations.

• 3+ years supporting Retail or Order Management/ERP integrations. (Oracle Xstore, Oracle Cloud, Manhattan Active Omni, Boomi like Integration tools)

• Extensive experience documenting development requirements, process flows, testing requirements, coordinating code reviews and documentation signoffs.

• Conversant in both technical and business acumen.

• Basic understanding of the cloud and solution design principles

• Huge plus to have the AWS knowledge and understanding of Gateway, Serverless, etc.

• Ability to lead user workshops, capture, define/refine requirements, write business and system use cases, design process workflow/activity diagrams; experience with a business process mapping tool is a plus.

• Prefer domain expertise in a Retail, apparel, or footwear industry.

• Strong data management and analysis skills, including experience with data mapping, data standardization, data clean up, and data consolidation is a plus.

• Good communications and team player

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering preferred.