Solution Architect, Cloud Development

Taylor Made Golf • Carlsbad, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves working with business stakeholders to refine user stories and business requirements, ensuring that designs and implementations meet business needs. The Solution Architect will design and propose efficient and cost-effective Azure infrastructure and deployment architectures, focusing on cost-effectiveness, high-availability, and security. The position requires resolving production issues within SLAs, managing cloud costs, monitoring usage, and forecasting future costs. The architect will provide technical leadership within a scrum team, manage external consultants and development teams, mentor team members, and ensure timely delivery within budget and scope. They will also conduct code reviews, act as a point of contact between headquarters and IT/business teams, gather technical requirements for global readiness, research and apply new technologies, create prototypes, and design architectures including data and software models. The goal is to ensure the right tools are used for the job.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge for resolution of production issues and service interruptions.
• Ability to own the resolution on the technical side and involve necessary human resource to restore the service.
• Focus on minimizing impact for the business.
• Experience managing cloud cost and proactively monitoring usage.
• Ability to develop estimates based on existing requirements.
• Ability to forecast future cost based on new demand.
• Experience with JIRA Agile Scrum methodology.
• Experience using Jira and source control for project management tasks.
• Ability to provide technical leadership within a scrum team.
• Experience overseeing and managing external consultants related to development.
• Experience collaborating with off-site support teams.
• Experience driving development teams comprised of external contractors.
• Ability to mentor and oversee work of the development team.
• Ability to guarantee the team performs and delivers on time, budget, and scope.
• Ability to guarantee quality of the solution and adherence to best practices.
• Experience conducting regular code reviews.
• Ability to act as the point of contact between TaylorMade headquarters, IT teams in our core markets, and business teams.
• Ability to participate in meetings with regions and business users to provide architectural guidance.
• Ability to gather technical requirements and make sure solution is global-ready.
• Ability to identify applicable new technologies through research, collaboration with peers, and participation in standards organizations, industry groups, and panels.
• Ability to stay abreast with new technologies and apply to solve real-life demand.
• Ability to create prototypes to prove concepts and illustrate the solution to business users.
• Experience designing and proposing architectures, including data model and software architectures, in the initial phases of a project.
• Ability to ensure the right tool is used for the right job.

Responsibilities

• Work with business, IT users, and stakeholders to refine user stories and business requirements.
• Ensure designs and implementations meet business needs.
• Ask for necessary details to provide clarity and completeness of the functional requirements.
• Design and propose efficient and cost-effective Azure infrastructure necessary to support implementations.
• Propose necessary Azure deployment for the application being developed.
• Make sure the proposed deployment architecture is adequate and will meet the needs for cost-effectiveness, high-availability, and security.
• Resolve and assist with resolution of production issues within established SLAs.
• Given in-depth knowledge, assist with resolution of production issues and service interruptions.
• Own the resolution on the technical side and involve necessary human resource to restore the service.
• Focus on minimizing impact for the business.
• Manage cloud cost and proactively monitor usage to ensure environment performs within previously established budget.
• Develop estimates based on existing requirements.
• Forecast future cost based on new demand.
• Make sure the proposed Azure architecture performs within expected standards.
• Make sure the proposed Azure architecture is cost-effective and properly sized.
• Utilize JIRA Agile Scrum methodology.
• Use Jira and source control for project management tasks.
• Participate in all scrum activities and ceremonies.
• Provide technical leadership within the scrum team.
• Oversee and manage external consultants related to development and collaborate with off-site support teams.
• Drive development teams comprised of external contractors.
• Mentor and oversee work of the development team.
• Guarantee the team performs and delivers on time, budget, and scope.
• Guarantee quality of the solution and adherence to best practices.
• Conduct regular code reviews.
• Act as the point of contact between TaylorMade headquarters, IT teams in our core markets, and business teams.
• Participate in meetings with regions and business users to provide architectural guidance.
• Gather technical requirements and make sure solution is global-ready.
• Identify applicable new technologies through research, collaboration with peers, and participation in standards organizations, industry groups, and panels.
• Stay abreast with new technologies and apply to solve real-life demand.
• Create prototypes to prove concepts and illustrate the solution to business users.
• Design and propose architectures, including data model and software architectures, in the initial phases of a project.
• Make sure we use the right tool for the right job.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed