Solutions Architect

Location: Dublin, CA

Employment Type: Full-Time

We are seeking a Solution Architect I
- Enterprise Technology Architecture to help shape and evolve the technology landscape for a leading retail organization.

This role sits at the intersection of enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cloud, and business strategy
. You will partner with IT leaders, business stakeholders, engineering teams, and technology vendors to design scalable technology solutions that support critical business areas including Supply Chain, Stores, and enterprise operations
.

You will help define technology roadmaps, evaluate emerging technologies, develop architecture standards, and ensure solutions are designed for long-term scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Provide enterprise technology architecture guidance for strategic projects and business initiatives.
• Develop technology strategies and multi-year architecture roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
• Design and evaluate enterprise infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, database, storage, and identity solutions.
• Research and evaluate technology products, platforms, and vendors.
• Conduct TCO and ROI analysis to support technology decisions and investment recommendations.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, patterns, and reference designs.
• Partner with Enterprise, Application, Security, and Portfolio Architects to develop holistic solutions.
• Work with business and IT stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Present architecture recommendations and strategic proposals to technical teams and executive leadership.
• Provide technical input into project estimation, planning, budgeting, and delivery.
• Evaluate technology lifecycle, obsolescence, and risk as part of long-term planning.
• Collaborate with external technology providers, system integrators, and vendors.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for availability, recoverability, scalability, performance, and supportability
  .

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5-10+ years of experience in IT, technology solutions, infrastructure, architecture, and/or technology consulting.
• 5+ years of enterprise or technology architecture experience
  , preferably in retail or a related industry.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure and technology architecture.
• Experience with Microsoft and Azure technologies
  , including:
• Windows Server
• SQL Server
• Active Directory / Entra
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments
  , including RHEL and Oracle.
• Experience with VMware, Hyper-V, HCI, or virtualization technologies
  .
• Knowledge of enterprise storage, SAN, backup, and disaster recovery technologies.
• Understanding of network and security technologies.
• Experience developing architecture standards, roadmaps, and technology strategies.
• Strong analytical, communication, presentation, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience in retail, supply chain, warehouse operations, logistics, or other large-scale enterprise environments is highly valued.

Experience working for a major retailer or technology consulting organization is a plus.

This is a highly visible architecture role where you'll have the opportunity to influence enterprise technology strategy and long-term architecture decisions
, while working across business, IT, engineering, and external technology partners.

If you're an enterprise or infrastructure architect who enjoys solving complex technology problems and shaping how large organizations evolve their technology landscape, we'd like to hear from you.