IT Solution Architect

BJ's Wholesale Club • BJ's Club Support Center Marlborough, MA

13d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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
• This is a hybrid role. Tuesday through Thursday are in-office days at BJ's Club Support Center in Marlborough, MA and Monday and Friday are remote days.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Weekly Pay: Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms.
• Free BJ’s Memberships: Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees