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Job Title: Sr Digital Ecommerce Solutions Architect
Position Summary:Our clients Digital team is leading the coatings industry through an evolution in our client's business strategies and structure - to capture opportunities enabled by digital technologies and provide amazing customer experiences while unlocking new revenue streams and reaching new customers.The Sr Digital Ecommerce Solutions Architect will build and lead the implementation of a modern Enterprise Ecommerce Architecture that effectively supports our client's digital transformation journey. S/he will focus on building our ecommerce architecture foundations with an emphasis on scaling to drive growth. S/he will work cross-functionally with teams of Product Managers, Data Engineers, Enterprise Architects, Digital Ops and Sales/Marketing teams.Job Duties : The Digital Ecommerce Solutions Architect will use his/her technical and functional capacities to build effective architecture standards, data models and a reference architecture that is robust, yet flexible and scalable. S/he is a storyteller, who uses that mindset to connect to our client's Digital product squads across the breadth of our digital initiatives including AI/ML. S/he brings a product management mindset to Digital Architecture team.Key areas of responsibility:• Align with ecommerce product roadmap and create, maintain best practices and design documents in conformance with laid out enterprise architecture, digital architecture policies/practices.• Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise and segment business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.• Lead and participate in architecture guild calls and help mature architectural practice across digital organization• Lead PoC/PoV development in a more hands on manner.• Develop executive presios, functionality and technology roadmaps, as needed for executive briefings.• Collaborate and develop xSBU architectures, in alignment with needs of Client teams• Help mature Agile and Lean principles and practices• Contributes recommendations and implementation strategies for new technologies.• Grow the maturity of Solution Architecture through the introduction of Evolutionary Architecture concepts and providing consulting support to application architects within projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.• Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.• Design, document, and communicate incremental and target state reference architectures.• Proactively evaluate, design and promote new products, processes, technologies and solutions.• A self-driven, highly- motivated technologist who can work with a high degree of autonomy and is able to prioritize effectively.• A business- minded person who can work collaboratively and has proven experience in creating influence across product teams, delivery, Digital and IT to drive technical efforts.• Someone who is articulate and can effectively communicate with technical teams, non-technical business leaders, and clients.Ideal Experience: Looking for an individual who is passionate about software architecture and new emerging digital ecommerce technologies. Former experience as a solution architect, especially driving ecommerce in an industrial company is definitely a big plus.• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in Solution Architecture; related experience and/or education may be considered.• 3+ years’ experience with CICD, Azure pipelines, Microservices, API first approach, Cloud native and headless ecommerce architecture• Experience with commercetools, Kentico Cloud and REST APIs, SOA preferable• Experience with Azure Cloud preferred, specifically - Web Jobs, Azure Queue, Azure Web Apps, App Service Plans, Sql Azure, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Traffic Manager, Blob Storage, CDN, and Azure VMs.• Hands on experience with FE frameworks (Angular, Vue, React) and development experience with MVC, .Net core, and JS framework webapps, Python a plus.• Candidate must have a strong understanding of data integration, analytics, data stores, security and availability of data, with a cloud-first mindset.• Experience with one of the following Cloud technologies: Amazon Web Services, Azure Cloud, Google Cloud.• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts to simple business language. Must have a continuous improvement mind-set and develop self and others to improve performance.• Proven stakeholder management skills with strong communication and persuasion skills, including the ability to translate the information architecture contribution to business outcomes into simple briefings for Senior Management. Convey the “Why”.• Strong integrated consultancy skills with the demonstrated ability to influence and manage the expectations of senior business stakeholders, Digital management and internal/external partners.• Fluency with continuous delivery, continuous integration and MACH a plus.• Hands-on experience with Agile/Lean Startup methodologies.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and in taking people along so that they are excited about the ability to create impact through the use of new emerging digital technologies.• A self-starter who is self-motivated, disciplined, self-assured, performance driven and passionate and most importantly one who always finds a viable path forward technologically.Vacancy expired!