Solutions Architect Manager

The Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Solutions Architect Manager helps design, implement, and optimize solutions for data collection and analytics. The role combines technical expertise, customer communication, and strategic problem-solving. Key responsibilities include advising customers or internal teams, designing scalable architectures, translating business needs into technical solutions, explaining complex technical concepts clearly, and supporting analytics data collection.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Previous people or project team management experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in guiding more junior team members through the fundamentals of database architecture framework definition, developing database requirements, and implementing data management procedures
• Proficient in writing specs and requirements
• Demonstrated knowledge of the business to support stakeholder data needs
• Experience configuring analytics tools for site tagging
• Mastery using data software such as GCP Big Query, Mini Tab, Workfront, or SQL
• Experience supporting infrastructure for clickstream data (social media impression data on the marketing side)
• 6 years of work experience

Nice To Haves

• Masters in a quantitative field (Analytics, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Statistics, Management, etc.) or relevant work experience

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, mentorship and coaching to Data Architects (individual contributors) and evaluate performance, execution, and contribution.
• Attract, retain and develop top talent to build an effective and high performing team.
• Support team in development of business knowledge and technical skills with clear plans and regular assessment of progress.
• Ensure appropriate processes and job-specific requirements are properly documented.
• Develop onboarding and training plan for both technical and soft skills that will ensure high level of capabilities within the team.
• Manage resources effectively to align with strategic initiatives and business needs.
• Foster collaboration with team members to develop a supportive and engaged team.
• Support team in the design and development of algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights.
• Drive team’s results and celebrate accomplishments.
• Manage requests for site features and tagging from internal customers.
• Prioritize and assign projects by striking a balance between a variety of factors, like funding, return on investment, innovative or challenging work, among others.
• Manage programs for the team to ensure consistency of execution, balance of resources and quality solutions.
• Collaborate with program managers and business partners to align on objectives and expectations and ensure project teams deliver against them.
• Serve as escalation point for any issues or difficulties with specific projects.
• Provide executive updates to leaders at all levels of the organization on program effectiveness, team accomplishments, summary of findings and recommended solution, and explain internal and external impacts.
• Provide enterprise guidance on setting up campaigns and proper use of taxonomy.
• Leverage extensive business knowledge and relationships to seek out new business opportunities to leverage and advocate for team’s skills.
• Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams.
• Ensure alignment with IT support model, collaboration, tools and governance to enable the team to be most effective in executing their roles.
• Collaborate with other data team managers across the organization to establish high level strategy and optimize talent management.
• Architect, tag, validate and support data collection and classification for reporting needs.
• Provide guidance on proper setup to consume data into databases.
• Guide and direct project teams in the requirements gathering, design, and development of complex applications/programs.
• Drive analytics teams to get matured in predictive and prescriptive analytics.
• Network with both academic and industry experts to further the application of advanced analytics to business problems.

What This Job Offers

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