Solutions Architect

Description

This Solution Architect position is a senior role with accountability for solution architecture scoped to
business-transformative projects and is involved with projects from inception through implementation.
It is a critical architecture role in our Retail Store Technology team and part of our
Architecture community focusing on retail and payments domain understating retail landscape and
where it is going in its future state.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for project-level solution design ensuring the solution design optimally satisfies
• needs and expectations of the project stakeholders
• Advocates and champions Enterprise Architecture and Domain Architecture recommendations to the project team
• Responsible for overall solution quality; security, performance, flexibility, availability, etc.
• Responsible for deciding technologies to use in the solution not already defined by the Domain
• Architecture and Enterprise Architecture teams
• Responsible for architecture deliverables such as; non-functional requirements, system
• diagrams, data models, and traceability matrix to track and monitor the solution from
• requirements to design to implementation to test cases
• Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands on working experience on Java and related JEE/J2EE technology stack
• 5+ years of hands-on Architecture experience is required
• Experience must include programming APIs; Java/JEE; Hibernate; Spring Framework; JSP; AJAX;
• JavaScript; XML and XML parsers; SOAP/REST web services; service-oriented architectures
• (SOA); data modeling skills; and writing stored procedures.
• Experience working with any of the Servlet containers or Enterprise containers like Tomcat, BEA
• WebLogic, IBM WebSphere or JBOSS. Should have knowledge in using any of the mentioned
• servers like deployment, configuring & troubleshooting
• Retail and payment domain experience (highly valued)
• Experience with integration of third-party tools and cloud middleware platforms
• Able to design SaaS solutions that scale and perform with rock solid reliability, ability to identify
• and build-in key application monitoring hooks to allow for optimal management of the solution.
• Capable of working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to troubleshoot
• issues and to tune the environment for optimal performance and uptime.
• Must be capable of providing leadership for junior and senior software engineers alike,
• understands how to leverage and enhance their current skills
• Ability to use and communicate system design patterns and anti-patterns
• Ability to manage solution architecture design to align to business value
• Ability to build solution architecture models using UML.
• Ability to strongly justify the proposed architecture and design in a comparative mode.
• Ability to develop and manage architecture models such as activity models, class models and
• data models
• Minimum of 5 years developing real world scaled solutions with knowledge of full application
• development lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies; waterfall, agile and hybrid.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, written, and listening skills.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills including collaboration, facilitation and negotiation.