Solution Architect
About The Position
The Solution Architect provides technical expertise to build and deliver solutions that enable efficient and consistent execution of Land O’Lakes’ Quality Management System requirements. The role ensures solutions align with business, product, and technology strategies. It is based at the Corporate Office in Arden Hills, Minnesota, with a hybrid schedule of three days in the office (Tuesday through Thursday) and two remote days (Monday and Friday). The position is not fully remote and does not offer relocation assistance. The architect designs significant aspects of application architecture, evaluates business requirements, and defines implementation options using security-by-design principles. In collaboration with domain architects, the role evaluates technologies, applications, tools, and platforms for factors such as cost, performance, user experience, security, scalability, and maintainability. It develops high-level architecture designs that integrate components and systems into cohesive solutions, identifies and mitigates risks, and drives work from concept through implementation. The role also drives the product technical roadmap, communicates the feasibility and impact of technology options, and helps prioritize and enable team work while championing Agile practices and collaboration. Working with Product Owners and business stakeholders, the architect prioritizes features according to customer needs, regulatory requirements, market trends, and business priorities, and owns the prioritization of nonfunctional requirements. The position creates architectural documentation, shares knowledge, mentors development teams and Quality Systems administrators, promotes architectural best practices, and uses dedicated time to explore technologies and approaches that could improve software development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience building digital products across application design, development, data, security, and architecture.
- 5+ years of experience working on cloud-native application solutions on Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
- 5+ years of experience with integration patterns, design, and architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and developing consumer-facing digital solutions.
- 2+ years of experience with quality management and laboratory systems supporting product safety and quality, regulatory compliance, testing, traceability, and manufacturing quality processes.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across levels, including engineers, management, and architects, particularly in Agile, DevOps, and product-oriented cultures.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts effectively to nontechnical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Provide solution architecture expertise to build and deliver solutions supporting Quality Management System requirements and aligned with business, product, and technology strategies.
- Design application architecture by evaluating business requirements and defining implementation options using security-by-design principles.
- Work with domain architects to evaluate and recommend technologies, applications, tools, and platforms based on cost, performance, user experience, security, scalability, and maintainability.
- Develop high-level architecture designs integrating components, technologies, and systems into cohesive, efficient, and scalable solutions.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with proposed solutions, including risks involving cost, performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and product or human safety.
- Drive work from concept definition through successful implementation.
- Drive the product technical roadmap and communicate the feasibility and potential impact of technology options.
- Prioritize and enable team work, champion Agile principles, and foster communication and collaboration.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and business stakeholders to prioritize software features based on customer needs, regulatory requirements, market trends, and business priorities.
- Own nonfunctional requirements and ensure they are appropriately prioritized.
- Create architectural documentation, including diagrams, design decisions, and technical specifications.
- Share knowledge and insights through presentations and informal discussions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams and Quality Systems administrators, ensuring best practices and architectural standards are followed.
- Use dedicated work time to experiment with technologies, tools, or approaches that may improve software development quality or efficiency.
Benefits
- A broad portfolio of benefits for employees and their families.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
