Job Description

Job Summary: Our client is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join their team! This position is located in Katy, Texas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement solutions in cloud and hybrid environments, focusing on data integration.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to develop end-to-end solutions.
• Participate in architecture design reviews and refine requirements.
• Create artifacts defining the architecture across the full solution lifecycle.
• Tailor solutions to business needs.
• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
• Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work.
• Works with business and technology subject matter experts to derive end-to-end solutions that provide value to the enterprise and these solutions comply with standards and guidelines set forth by Enterprise Architecture
• Interacts with business leadership to establish a solid working relationship between IT and operations
• Must be able to model solutions from conceptual, logical and physical perspectives (N+1 views)
• Creates artifacts that define the N+1 views of the end-to-end solution (context, data domain, logical, physical, and deployment)
• Facilitates the requirements refinement process; with special focus on service-level requirements
• Collaborates with other parts of IT to ensure a thorough understanding of the proposed architecture; must be willing to accept and factor-in feedback
• Participates in design reviews to ensure traceability of the design to the proposed solution architecture
• Contributes to enterprise guidelines, standards and principles as precedents are discovered and adopted
• Articulates architecture decisions behind the solution architecture
• Takes initiative in working with business stakeholders to ensure their requirements (immediate and future) will be addressed by IT
• Develops a thorough understanding of Academy’s policies, procedures and safety rules
• Duties may change; Team Member may be required to perform other duties as assigned

Key Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 10+ years in IT Management or IT Solutions Architecture.
• Retail Experience: 2-3 years (preferred).
• Essential: Retail and CDP experience.
• Expertise in integrating CDPs with marketing technologies (Salesforce, Adobe, etc.).
• Preferred: Knowledge of retail supply chain and planning, including merchandising.
• Experience in planning for large-scale, long-term growth and scalability.

Skills:

• Profound knowledge of data integration patterns and tools.
• Expertise in cloud and hybrid solution design.
• Strong understanding of security, networking, and integration.
• Familiarity with CDP integration and marketing tech stack.
• Experience with TOGAF and Zachman frameworks.
• Hands-on architecture experience (in retail systems like Oracle RMS or digital eCommerce architecture).

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to work with a cutting-edge tech stack.
• Thriving environment for innovation.
• Growth opportunities within the company.

Pay range and compensation package: $122,500 - $175,000 (est. annual rate)

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