Digital Solutions Architect

They say you are the company you keep - and at Cracker Barrel, we take that seriously. At the Store Support Center, we’re in the business of serving those who serve our guests. Whether you’re designing solutions, telling our story, or setting our teams up for success, your work makes a difference every single day. Here, the work means more because we take pride in doing it together.

So, join our team and find your place, because here…we’re all in good company.

• Solution Design
  • Lead the design of end-to-end digital solutions that align with the organization’s business strategy and long-term digital roadmap.
  • Define and govern scalable, secure, and modular architectures across native mobile applications, Sitecore DXP, Azure-based function apps, and microservice ecosystems.
  • Establish architectural patterns and standards that ensure consistency in performance, security, resilience, and user experience across all digital channels.
  • Serve as the senior architectural authority for cross-platform digital initiatives, ensuring solutions are cloud-native and future‑ready.
• Requirements Analysis
  • Partner closely with business analysts, product owners, and stakeholders to understand business objectives and functional requirements.
  • Translate business and customer needs into clear technical architectures, solution designs, and integration approaches.
  • Balance business priorities with technical constraints, ensuring solutions are both practical and scalable.
• Technology Evaluation & Strategy
  • Stay current with emerging digital, cloud, and integration technologies, assessing their relevance to the organization’s digital ecosystem.
  • Evaluate, select, and recommend platforms, frameworks, and architectural approaches that strengthen digital capabilities and accelerate delivery.
  • Provide technical leadership in platform decisions related to Sitecore DXP, Azure services, mobile technologies, and API/microservice tooling.
• Collaboration & Technical Leadership
  • Work closely with digital delivery teams, infrastructure, security, and enterprise architecture to ensure successful implementation of digital solutions.
  • Provide hands‑on architectural guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle, including design reviews, proof‑of‑concepts, and critical implementation efforts.
  • Collaborate with project and product managers to support delivery planning, estimate effort, identify dependencies, and manage technical risks.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to digital and business leadership.
• Documentation & Architecture Governance
  • Create and maintain clear, accurate, and reusable documentation covering architecture, design decisions, integration patterns, and implementation standards.
  • Ensure architectural documentation is accessible and actively used by development and operations teams.
  • Establish and enforce architectural guardrails while enabling teams to deliver efficiently.
• Quality Assurance & Best Practices
  • Define and promote best practices for digital development, cloud architecture, and integration patterns.
  • Review architectures and implementations to ensure solutions meet quality, performance, security, and maintainability standards.
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to developers and solution architects to elevate overall technical maturity.
• Risk Management, Security & Compliance
  • Identify architectural and technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies throughout solution design and delivery.
  • Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure digital solutions adhere to security, privacy, and regulatory standards.
  • Ensure solutions are designed for availability, fault tolerance, observability, and operational support.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or digital architecture roles, with demonstrated leadership of large‑scale, customer‑facing digital platforms.
• Native iOS application architecture (Swift, iOS architectural patterns, build and release practices)
• Native Android…