The IT Solution Architect at Sally Beauty Supply LLC is responsible for evaluating business requirements to identify potential software, hardware, and system architectures. The role involves assessing the organization's system integration requirements and developing strategies to address them. The architect must understand data governance and data quality standards to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency. They will develop a system integration architecture to support the organization's needs using agile processes and determine the appropriate hardware and software components required. Coordination with management, designers, and programmers in the IT department is essential to ensure the solution approach meets organizational needs. The architect will work with application owners and users to understand their systems integration needs, including data quality, security, and access requirements. Compliance with data governance policies, including data security, data privacy, and data retention policies, is crucial while designing and implementing system integration solutions. The role also includes providing architectural guidance and technical service to application teams, developing technical standards and best practices, maintaining documentation on system integration processes, and evaluating alternate solutions in key technology areas. Staying up-to-date with emerging data integration technologies and participating in data governance activities are also part of the responsibilities.