BJ's Wholesale Club-posted 4 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
5,001-10,000 employees

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic driven IT Solution Architect to lead the design and integration of technology solutions supporting our club systems within a retail wholesale environment. This role will focus on architecting scalable, secure, and customer-centric systems that enhance member experience, streamline club operations, and support business growth.

  • Acts as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, product teams, and development teams, providing recommendations and influencing decision-making processes for IT solutions and value stream optimization.
  • Collaborates with Enterprise Architects to align solution architecture with enterprise architecture standards and vision.
  • Responsible for developing and reviewing the solution architecture (blueprint) for products and value stream, including interaction requirements for specific components, subsystems, and interfaces within the application or solution.
  • Designs future-proof and scalable solutions, considering all hardware, infrastructure, and data constraints.
  • Drives simplicity in IT solution design by re-using assets; degree of asset re-use across the enterprise.
  • Aligns with cross functional areas to ensure the user story or product backlog item meets a set of team-established criteria as to whether the story is ready for a sprint.
  • Contributes to the creation of IT/Architecture standards and guidelines to define the overall solution architecture.
  • Creates Technical Design documents, technical specifications, production supporting documents, implementation plans, test plans and test cases.
  • Responsible for identifying non-functional requirements to ensure the architectural design meets the required performance, security, scalability, availability, and other quality attributes.
  • Leads the assessment and adoption of new technologies and methodologies that can provide a competitive advantage.
  • Reviews IT solution design for every new or changed solution and ensures alignment with enterprise architecture standards, policies, and procedures.
  • Ensure all security and compliance aspects are considered in the architecture (e.g., secure by design, compliant by design).
  • Supports the program & project delivery teams to embed security, privacy, and regulatory needs into the solution.
  • Indoctrinate Enterprise Architecture strategy and approach with applications development teams.
  • Ensure operational stability of a warehouse retail environment by providing technical support, system monitoring, and issue resolution which may be required during off-hours, weekends, and holidays as needed.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline.
  • 5 or more years as a solution architect in software development.
  • 5 or more years in retail industry.
  • Ability to employ EA concepts around best practices, standards, and EA trends.
  • Experience in programming languages, data flows, information delivery, application integration, db technologies, cloud technologies (i.e. AWS) and infrastructure requirements.
  • Experience delivering POS and store system solutions that meet demands for reliability, scalability, maintainability, etc.
  • Ability to prepare specifications, deliver oral presentations, and explain complex technical concepts in simple terms.
  • Must possess strong leadership skills and the ability to provide direction to cross-functional teams responsible for the project.
  • Experience with cloud technologies, AWS preferred.
  • Must be customer/service focused.
  • BJ’s pays weekly.
  • Eligible for free BJ's Inner Circle and Supplemental membership(s).
  • Generous time off programs to support busy lifestyles including Vacation, Personal, Holiday, Sick, Bereavement Leave, Jury Duty.
  • Benefit plans for your changing needs including three medical plans, Health Savings Account (HSA), two dental plans, vision plan, flexible spending.
  • 401(k) plan with company match (must be at least 18 years old).
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