Senior Solution Architect, Adobe

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people and equips them with leading technology continuous learning and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the preeminent wine and spirits distributor Southern Glazers isnt just one of Forbes Top Private Companies; its a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazers is proud of its well-earned positive reputation continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued supported and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage dental and vision plans tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts disability coverage life insurance plans and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance a wellness program parental leave vacation accrual paid sick leave and more.

By joining Southern Glazers you would be part of a team that values excellence innovation and community. This is more than just a job its an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

The Senior Solution Architect serves as a technical leader and subject matter expert responsible for designing scalable secure and maintainable solutions for SGWS product and engineering teams. This role provides architecture leadership for applications including enterprise domain services and support trade selling and buying (eCommerce) applications. This role will also playing a critical part in shaping the future of personalization experimentation measurement and Marketing Technology at large with a strong emphasis on the Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem.

The Solution Architect translates business needs into practical solution designs that connect applications data integrations content personalization analytics and customer engagement capabilities. The role partners closely with product engineering enterprise architecture marketing analytics and business stakeholders to ensure solutions align with business outcomes architecture standards platform roadmaps security requirements and long-term technology strategy. Ultimately the Senior Enterprise Architect ensures that solutions are resilient scalable and maintainable meeting the organizations strategic long-term objectives.

• Provides strategic guidance on the business and IT alignment connecting strategy to execution through a collaborative supportive and consultative manner driving the organizations digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Designs end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise products and services
• Translates business capabilities product objectives and functional requirements into solution options target-state designs integration patterns and implementation roadmaps.
• Provides architecture guidance for platforms and applications supporting customer engagement content management personalization experimentation analytics campaign orchestration and digital experience delivery.
• Defines architecture and solution designs which leverage the full suite of Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities including Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Journey Optimizer Adobe Experience Platform and Customer Journey Analytics ensuring alignment with enterprise systems data platforms APIs identity consent content and analytics needs.
• Partners with product managers engineers enterprise architects business stakeholders vendors and delivery teams to ensure architecture decisions are practical reusable and aligned to delivery outcomes.
• Creates and maintains architecture artifacts including context diagrams logical solution designs integration flows data flow diagrams capability maps decision records and roadmap recommendations.
• Provides expertise and maintains and evangelizes technology standards and guidelines and identify application and technology rationalization opportunities.

• Bachelors degree in information science and technology Business Administration Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline.
• Typically 10 years relevant IT and business/industry experience including experience in multiple IT areas such as technical architecture architecture design and deployment systems lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations.
• Typically 7 years relevant architecture experience with expert knowledge of Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities such as Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Experience Platform Adobe Journey Optimizer Adobe Target Adobe Analytics Customer Journey Analytics Adobe Tags or related Adobe services.
• Typically 7 years project/program management experience preferably leading projects.
• Experience in an agile environment preferred.
• Exposure to multiple diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Deep experience applying existing new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
• Deep experience with business transformation and process redesign methods.
• Experience developing and monitoring delivery of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
• Experience with business capability modeling.
• Native-level proficiency/fluent in English.

• Expert understanding of digital experience architecture including content supply chains personalization segmentation identity customer profiles experimentation campaign orchestration measurement and activation.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise application patterns domain-driven design API management service boundaries data contracts integration patterns and reusable platform capabilities.
• Expert knowledge in architecting solutions that integrate SaaS platforms custom applications enterprise data platforms customer data platforms analytics tools CRM ERP commerce and operational systems.
• Knowledge of data governance privacy consent security identity management role-based access and compliance considerations for customer and marketing data.
• Ability to evaluate solution trade-offs across cost complexity scalability performance maintainability vendor capability and business value.
• Proven ability to influence architecture decisions in a matrixed environment and align product engineering business security data and vendor teams around a shared solution direction.
• Proven ability to create architecture artifacts such as logical architecture diagrams integration models sequence diagrams capability maps roadmaps decision records and executive-level recommendations.
• Proven ability to coach delivery teams share architecture knowledge and promote modern engineering and design practices.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams with the proven ability to communicate with business acumen and work with diverse stakeholders including those in an outsourced environment.

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g. keyboard mouse and monitor) or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking bending reaching standing and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering pushing carrying or pulling up to 20lbs

Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits an Affirmative Action/EEO employer prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicants arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience knowledge skills abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazers pay bands or ranges.

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