Solution Architect, Loyalty

Circle K • Tampa, FL

21d

About The Position

The Solution Architect, Loyalty proactively leads and supports architecture activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions within Enterprise Architecture. The role provides leadership, analysis, and design to develop technology solutions that meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. Solutions include loyalty engines and other technologies.

The architect translates customer journeys and business requirements into technical requirements, capability and value-stream maps, architectural blueprints, and technology enablers. The role evaluates current and emerging technologies, shapes solution architecture and roadmaps, and provides guidance to product and project teams. It also supports enterprise architecture governance by defining standards and patterns and ensuring solution designs align with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, systems analysis, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, such as solution, application, technical, or infrastructure architecture; network management; application development; middleware; database management; or cloud development.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments.
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends and practical application of existing and emerging technologies to evolving business and operating models.
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles, and development methodologies, and ability to advise agile teams on opportunities, impact, and risks while accounting for technical and architectural debt.
• Experience implementing an enterprise loyalty platform.
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work with developers in an outsourced environment.
• Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer journeys and business requirements into technical requirements, business capability maps, value-stream maps, architectural blueprints, and technology enablers; document solution architecture design and analysis.
• Work with product owners and product managers to maintain an architectural runway that supports future requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Understand current and future business drivers and capabilities, and determine solution designs and change requirements to achieve business outcomes.
• Monitor the solution portfolio for technology aging and misalignment with business requirements.
• Support product managers in decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire products and services, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Assess emerging technology trends, industry and competitor developments, and their potential application and implications for solutions.
• Analyze the business-IT environment for deficiencies, legacy systems, and technical debt, and recommend improvements.
• Facilitate evaluation and selection of software products and services, and design standard and custom software configurations.
• Consult with application and infrastructure development projects and products to align systems and infrastructure with architecture and identify design changes needed for solution architecture.
• Lead evaluation, design, maintenance, and evolution of solution architecture across assigned business applications or technologies, guided by enterprise strategy, business capabilities, value streams, requirements, and standards.
• Manage and develop architecture across a broader scope of projects or products, guiding application architects and other technical resources.
• Develop a roadmap for evolving the enterprise solution portfolio from its current state to its future state.
• Advise on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendors.
• Create architectural designs that guide solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Work with business and technology leaders and project and product managers to ensure execution aligns with commitments throughout the project or product lifecycle.
• Provide consulting support to application architects in agile teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Provide standard definitions, reference models, and architecture designs to support governance and assess the impact of technology investments on the business and IT estate.
• Support a community of practice by guiding agile teams and product owners in alignment with enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
• Design and direct governance activities that ensure solution architecture assurance and compliance.
• Define principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns that align solution decisions with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus annual bonus payment.
• Complete benefits packages, including medical, dental, 401(k), and employee stock plan.
• People Perks discounts on food and fuel.
• Tuition reimbursement of $5,000 per year.
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and evolve professionally.

What This Job Offers

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