Solutions Architect

CEC Entertainment

12d

About The Position

The Solution Architect designs, builds, and guides the evolution of CEC Entertainment’s business-critical digital and store platforms. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture leadership and technical product management, translating business requirements into scalable solutions and writing production-quality code. Assigned platforms span point-of-sale, loyalty, guest-facing, and enterprise integration domains, with deep retail experience and strong Microsoft Azure expertise essential. The role is split roughly evenly between hands-on engineering and business requirements, architecture, and technical product management.

The architect works with business, operations, marketing, store stakeholders, engineering, QA, DevOps, vendors, and executives to define requirements, own solution architecture, coordinate delivery, and track product and technical KPIs. The position also provides tier-3 support for critical POS and API incidents, mentors engineers, and promotes reusable standards and patterns. The role requires an 8-hour shift, some overtime, and availability to travel to various locations by airplane or vehicle if needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a similar degree.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years of solution architecture experience.
• Significant hands-on development experience in Java/Spring Boot, C#, and the .NET ecosystem.
• 5+ years designing and delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure, including App Service or Azure Functions, API Management, Key Vault, Storage, Azure SQL, Service Bus/Event Grid, Application Insights, and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Proven retail industry experience in areas such as POS, e-commerce, omnichannel, order management, loyalty, inventory, or store systems.
• Expertise in microservices, REST and event-driven architecture, API design, and system integration.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0/JWT authentication, API versioning, resilience patterns, and OpenAPI documentation.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear requirements and architecture, and experience acting as or working closely with a product owner or product manager.
• Working knowledge of SQL Server/Azure SQL and NoSQL data platforms.
• Knowledge of secure coding for environments handling payment card and guest data, including PCI DSS awareness, keeping secrets out of code and logs, TLS in transit, and encryption at rest.
• Experience in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum and continuous-integration environment using Jira, Confluence, and Git-based workflows (GitHub).
• Ability to work effectively in and help lead high-performing, globally distributed development teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including presenting to executives and engineers and building relationships across the organization with a focus on internal and external customers.
• Ability to sit, walk, stand, bend, twist, reach, and carry, lift, pull, and push 1–25 lbs.
• Ability to use a computer with repetitive movement of both hands.
• Ability to work an 8-hour shift with some overtime.
• Availability to travel to various locations by airplane or by operating a vehicle if needed.

Nice To Haves

• Azure certifications such as AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AZ-204, or AZ-400, and/or TOGAF or a similar architecture framework.
• Experience with payment and loyalty integrations, including FreedomPay or similar gateways, tokenization, buy-now-pay-later providers, and loyalty/CRM platforms.
• Experience with legacy modernization or cloud migration and observability tools such as Application Insights or Azure Monitor.
• Familiarity with Angular or React and exposure to AI/ML services such as Azure OpenAI in a retail context.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and operate Java/Spring Boot and C# .NET REST APIs, Azure Functions, and background services in Microsoft Azure.
• Build and maintain REST and event-driven integrations with third-party vendors and internal platforms.
• Own infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines for services built.
• Build proofs of concept to validate architectural approaches before full-scale delivery.
• Lead code reviews and establish and enforce practices for secure, scalable, resilient, and efficient software.
• Provide tier-3 support for critical POS and API incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and drive permanent fixes into the backlog.
• Work with business, operations, marketing, and store stakeholders to turn business needs into technical requirements and solution designs.
• Document and communicate solution designs, integration and data-flow diagrams, and architecture decision records.
• Own architecture for assigned platforms and align it with enterprise architecture principles and the cloud roadmap.
• Define and track product and technical KPIs, including availability, latency, adoption, and conversion.
• Coordinate engineering, QA, DevOps, vendors, and business teams to deliver on time.
• Communicate technical options, risks, and trade-offs to executives, business stakeholders, and engineers.
• Mentor engineers and promote reusable patterns and standards across teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits for eligible U.S. employees.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan for eligible U.S. employees.
• Job training and career growth opportunities.
• Work Today, Get Paid Tomorrow employer program.

What This Job Offers

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