Solution Architect
Solution Architect
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Job Description
Title of Role Solution Architect
Location Vancouver BC or Seattle WA (Hybrid Model)
Team/Department Costing Technology
Opportunity for Permanent Conversion Yes
Ideal Start Date 03/10/2025
Contract Length 6 months
Ideal # Years Experience 10
ROLE DESCRIPTION
Outline of the Role:
Solutioning of highperforming and thoughtfully architected software applications that satisfy our internal
business needs and guest experiences. Has proven experience in effectively applying architectural best
practices and forward thinking to build enhance and sustain technology solutions that supports an
organization that grows at an explosive rate.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap.
Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build.
Design and document reusable and scalable frameworks and components.
Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives.
Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are
built for the enterprise.
Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI.
Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions.
Collaborate with Product Management Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from
concept to implementation.
Serves as primary technical solution design architect for one or more teams and their systems and
integrations.
Serves as primary decision escalation resource for addressing architecture and integration issues
affecting their team.
Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance security automation quality
monitoring and reliability of platforms.
Develops and maintains current and futurestate architecture models and ensures all documentation
is kept up to date.
Keeps up with industry best practices technologies architectures trends emerging technologies and
develop proof of concept projects to validate new ideas.
Qualifications Skills Experience and Personal Requirements:
Bachelors degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.
10 years of software engineering experience including at least 2 years at a retail/supplychain
organization in Solution Architect capacity.
Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry familiar with application systems and business
practices in this realm.
Experience solutioning endtoend fullstack applications integration of SaaS and PaaS systems.
Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 35 years.
Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools.
Excellent team player ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Experience in mentoring technical teammembers and providing technical leadership.
Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns.
Experience working in a SAFe /Agile environment.
Experience contributing to multiple medium to large size initiatives simultaneously.
Familiarity with streaming platforms (realtime data at massive scale like Confluent Kafka).
Experience with AWS or other public clouds from a system design perspective.
Experience working with containers Docker Kubernetes or other container schedulers.
Additional Manager Comments:
Candidates with the following will be prioritized:
Industry experience in Retail and/or Upstream Supply Chain domain.
Experience in data analytics reporting.
TOGAF or similar certifications.
Proven leadership skills.
Employment Type
Full Time
