Information Technology Solutions Architect at Randstad Digital Americas in Katy, Texas

Job Description:

*This is a direct hire role with our customer in Katy, TX and will work predominately onsite*

*Work visa sponsorship is not offered at this time*

Must have experience in Retail and ideally with a Fortune 500 company

- Must have experience with (Application Enterprise Architecture)

- Experience with one of the following: 1) Java (Spring Boot) 2) Kafka 3) Kubernetes.

• Must have experience with (Application Enterprise Architecture)
• 10+ years' of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role
• 2-3 years of retail experience is preferred
• Prefer experience with Java (Spring Boot), Kafka, Kubernetes
• Experience in Data Integration patterns and tools
• Experience in designing solutions in cloud and hybrid cloud environments
• Understanding of networks and security as it relates to integration and data flow between systems
• Solid grasp of security in both on prem as well as cloud environments
• Familiar with vendor management tools and integration with EA tools
• Knowledge of IT Architectural frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman
• Knowledge of retail supply chain and planning, including merchandising preferred
• At least two implementations of enterprise class supply chain management systems preferred
• Strong experience in services (SOA/Microservices) design preferred
• Strong experience with retailing COTS enterprise class applications preferred

Skills:

• Ability to bridge the gap between waterfall and agile methodologies
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, and interface effectively with individuals at various levels
• Ability to build consensus around proposed solutions
• Ability to work well independently, as well as effectively contribute to a team environment
• Analytical, with strong problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Preferred skills include strong optimization skills - stochastic modeling, optimization algorithms, holistic planning
• Ability to understand and derive lower-level roadmaps with business leadership to help set requirements' context

Responsibilities:

• 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

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or other related Engineering discipline or relevant field of study required

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