Senior Advanced Solutions Architect

Kroger • Blue Ash, OH

22h

About The Position

The DevSecOps Architect will provide strategic guidance, technology roadmaps, and architectural direction to DevSecOps teams to build scalable, secure, and efficient deployment systems for cloud, on-prem and store focused enterprise services and systems. This role ensures that software engineers can deploy applications rapidly while maintaining the highest standards of security, reliability, and operational excellence. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design and implement modern CI/CD platforms, container orchestration strategies, and cloud infrastructure that support our vision to help people live healthier lives. Partner closely with development, senior product management, architecture, information security & infrastructure teams within a large organization to deliver software & technology products that meet functional & non-functional requirements & produce desired business outcomes. Curate & adhere to architectural principles & associated processes for adopting new technology or integrating with a new third-party solution. Advise senior product management on technology specific aspects of product strategy development & adopt emerging technology appropriate to stated goals. Mentors junior solutions architecture staff on architectural principles & methods. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Computer science or another related technical field
• Any expertise/experience in business case development, product scoping & project planning with development teams
• Any strong performance management experience of large work groups
• Any delivered innovative results in previous roles demonstrating strong knowledge of industry trends & industry competition
• Any experience integrating open source technologies in high volume production environments with strong knowledge of agile methodology
• 7+ years experience taking a lead role in the successful delivery of complex software & automation systems
• 12+ years experience in software/infrastructure development domain with emphasis on utilizing design patterns & architectural principles to ensure timely delivery of quality solutions

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree Computer science, information systems, or related technical field
• Any experience developing/architecting public cloud-hosted backend services with Azure/GCP
• 5+ years experience in designing eCommerce applications & working on high volume internet scale solutions
• Any experience developing React, Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
• Any experience developing/designing a scalable microservices architecture in Go, Java and Node.js
• Strong theoretical fundamentals in distributed systems, cloud architecture, networking, and security principles
• 6+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure
• 4+years of experience architecting and managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• 3+ years of experience designing cloud infrastructure on Azure (or equivalent cloud platform experience)
• Deep knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker) and container orchestration best practices
• Strong understanding of security principles including identity and access management, secrets management, network security, and compliance
• Proven experience mentoring and leading technical teams
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical architectural solutions
• Knowledge of Linux administration, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, routing, subnets), and production operations
• Fluent in scripting languages (Shell, Python) for automation and tooling
• Proven knowledge of service-oriented architecture and cloud-native design patterns

Responsibilities

• Develop the overall software & deployment architecture of application solutions across several teams within a large organization
• Partner with 3rd party vendors to integrate capabilities as required by the solution under development
• Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership in order to shape sound architectural decisions
• Lead the discovery phase of large projects to develop high level architecture & design
• Draft, review & maintain architectural diagrams, interface specifications & other architectural artifacts as required by the delivery teams to clearly communicate the needs of the solution under development
• Interact with & present to senior engineering & product management with the presence to influence & drive the decision makers to a solution
• Identify key technology overlaps & gaps; formulate strategies to optimize technology spend
• Provide technical leadership to ensure clarity between ongoing projects & the strategic objectives of the company
• Assess emerging technologies & make appropriate recommendations based on business needs
• Mentor team members & Solutions Architects in software development principles, patterns, processes & practices
• Promote the capture & reuse of intellectual capital, including code objects & components
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level