Solution Architect - Remote Job Vienna Virginia USA,IT/Tech

Company Overview

McFadyen Digital is the leading advisor and implementer of eCommerce Marketplace solutions. During 15 years of implementing marketplaces, we've built dozens of platforms that cumulatively generate billions of dollars of gross merchandise value (GMV). We're honored to have supported 10% of the Fortune 500 with their digital marketplace initiatives. Over 250 global brands like ABB, AB InBev, ACCO, Albertsons, American Red Cross, American Eagle Outfitters, US Army, US Agriculture Dept, (and many more) have entrusted their digital transformations to McFadyen.

We operate global offices across the US, Brazil, and India. McFadyen Digital has been a trusted employer for over 35 years and believes that people are the most important part of our company. We're proud of our Great Place to Work certification.

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The Opportunity

Can you architect and lead the technologies redefining digital commerce and marketplaces today, from composable, AI-powered platforms like Adobe Commerce to marketplace ecosystems like Mirakl? Could you sit down with a Fortune 500 CIO, CMO, or CDO and help them chart their next enterprise transformation? Do you have the mindset to mentor your team on emerging technologies, generative AI, headless commerce, marketplace orchestration, and help them architect solutions built to scale?

Can you partner with our delivery managers on the technical strategy behind major implementations for clients across the globe? Are you energized by the fast-moving intersection of eCommerce, Marketplaces, Martech, AI, and cloud technologies? Have you built the kind of thought leadership that gets you invited to speak at industry conferences?

If you like what you read, take a look at the role below — we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Top 5 responsibilities

Solution Architecture Leadership:
Lead the development of architectures for complex solutions, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers. Establish policy and strategy for the selection of solution architecture components, and coordinate design activities to ensure consistency.

Solution Delivery Excellence:
Facilitate availability and optimum utilization of resources while ensuring projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods, and procedures. Lead systems design activities for strategic, large, and complex systems development programs.

Consultancy & Client Engagement:
Take responsibility for understanding client requirements, managing client relationships, and developing consultancy services across a wide range of topics. Engage with clients from initial proposal through solution delivery to disengagement.

Knowledge Management & Sharing:
Develop and champion organizational knowledge management approaches, processes, and supporting technologies. Organize knowledge assets and facilitate sharing, collaboration, and communication of knowledge across teams.

Emerging Technology Leadership:
Monitor the external environment to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential impacts, threats, and opportunities for our clients. Create technology roadmaps and share insights across the organization.

Additional Responsibilities

Architecture & Standards Development:
- Take full responsibility for balancing functional, service quality, and systems management requirements within complex projects.
- Ensure appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national, and international) are adhered to.
- Within business change programs, manage target design, policies, and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture.
- Drive adoption of and adherence to relevant policies, standards, strategies, and architectures.
Systems Design & Implementation:
- Lead the definition, implementation, and review of systems development management frameworks.
- Develop organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems design.
- Champion systems design principles and appropriate lifecycle models, whether predictive or adaptive.
- Develop effective implementation and procurement strategies consistent with requirements, architectures, and constraints.
- Evaluate the quality of others' systems designs to ensure adherence to standards and identify corrective actions when needed.
Software Architecture & Design:
- Select, adopt, and adapt appropriate software design methods, tools, and techniques.
- Specify and design large or complex software components, conducting impact analysis on major design options.
- Architect and oversee integrations between marketplace platforms (e.g., Mirakl) and commerce platforms (e.g., Adobe Commerce) to unify catalog, order, and seller management across the ecosystem.
- Develop organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for software design and architectures.
- Ensure that system designs balance functional, quality, security, and systems management requirements.
- Specify prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision-making.
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