Solution Architect

The Solution Architect – Finance, Legal, and Revenue Management is responsible for the architecture and solution design of Inspire’s multi-brand digital e-commerce platform which is the digital backbone of Inspire and all its brands. Once developed, this cloud-native platform will be responsible for handling hundreds of millions of transactions per year and generating $5+ billion annual sales for the company. This person will lead complex projects and ensure the success of digital application development and rollouts.

This person will also serve as a subject matter expert and trusted technical advisor to the Inspire Executive and Leadership team.

• Design and architect scalable and distributed Digital E-Commerce Platforms using cloud and other emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with other Solution architects to design a unified multi-brand digital platform that will work across all Inspire Brands.
• Design solutions that are scalable and flexible to support different brand demands.
• Influence the successful implementation of these designs and architectures by managing expectations and risks and balancing tactical and strategic approaches.
• Work with the business to understand and solve complex problems, by presenting various solution options and technical concepts in a comprehensible manner.
• Collaborate with the delivery teams to provide direction and design in an Agile environment.
• Creates reliable solution plans that include cost estimates and optimized delivery approaches by working with the business and technology teams, enforcing governance and compliance activities for the solution.
• Identify new disruptive technologies to provide business value.
• Create and participate in the establishment of domain models and common services and Lead/support efforts for Digital Technology and Application Rationalization.

• 4 Year Degree in Computer Science or Engineering Preferred
• Graduate Degree Computer Science Preferred
• Minimum 10 years, preferably 15+ years of experience in application design and development, and systems life cycle management
• 5+ years of architecture experience working on complex enterprise systems
• 3+ years of e-commerce experience in the food or retail industry.

• Expertise with digital E-commerce domains (i.e. Search, Catalog, Order, Offer, Cart, Pricing, Customer, loyalty, etc).
• Strong demonstrable experience leading architecture development for enterprise-scale systems in public clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP), preferably with Azure experience.
• Experience converting business requirements to designs and user stories.
• Experience working in an Agile environment across multiple scrum teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication as well as presentation skills.
• Deep knowledge and experience in REST API, Micro-services, Swagger Hub, Java, Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with both RDBMS and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure, and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, and all the so-called “capabilities” of a system.
• Expertise in Java, and Spring boot and willing to work on Proof of Concepts when required.
• Finalize the project use cases and requirements with the business and development team.
• Provide project cost estimates to the business.
• Provide sign-off on project and/or application architecture and deployment.