Senior Architect IB​/OB Logistics

Senior Architect IB/OB Logistics(C2C and C2H)

Location:

Seattle, WA

Primary

Skills:

AWS Cloud Formation, Logistics, MongoDB, SQL

Outline of the Role:

This role requires experience and expertise in two supply chain pillars – inbound and outbound logistics, with prior experience with understanding and implementation of SaaS vendors like Manhattan WMS, Sterling OMS and Salesforce Commerce Cloud, E2 Open etc. Inbound logistics manages all technology to manage transportation, optimization and visibility of goods from our global vendors to our DC and 3PL locations.

Outbound logistics manages the transportation, optimization and visibility of shipments from our DC and 3PL locations to our retail stores as well as directly to guests through our ecommerce channels. Both teams are highly collaborative with other cross functional teams in the enterprise ecosystem and manage complex systems with fast paced roadmaps. The candidate will demonstrate leadership by supporting the growth and development the two teams as a whole and individually.

Goal setting is as integral to us as yoga, and you facilitate your team’s participation in our Vision & Goals program. This is not about an individual performance, but also about defining what is authentically important for you and your team and then setting out to make it happen. Our teams are tight knit with strong personalities’. We are looking for someone to join our team as a cultural add, able to work with different types of people and be able to lead the navigation of the landscape between our business, product and technical teams.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

As a Senior Architect, candidate will work on a range of products and problem spaces, across a range of teams and company domains to design/build technology to support the business team, with cloud computing cost effectiveness

• A critical thinking, curious mindset is a must have to generate solutions that are scalable, aligning with architecture principles and meet the needs of our business. Candidate to demonstrate high proficiency in architecting microservices and champion the latest and greatest AWS cloud concepts in reliability
• A team-based mindset, able to jump into areas that need extra attention to determine a path forward for the team. Candidate will have proven proficiency understanding and architecting RDS solutions, ie SQL, Postgres, Mongo etc. Candidate has track record in architecting disaster recovery solutions, cross regional replications and blue-green deployments

Ability to communicate with different level of stakeholders, and will often be a champion of several initiatives that you are responsible for completing and need to be able to communicate with different levels of roles

• Advocate for the correct design, looking at enterprise level long term direction
• Communicate with the product team to understand requirements and break user stories down into a design that the engineers can build, guiding them through the initial process and providing expertise and coaching the technical team
• Experience with engaging in high level high architecture reviews, i.e. ARB and SARB
• Ability to build a strategy document and recommendations on integration platform or API integration, with a strong reasoning to suggest why one is better than the other and/or propose integration architecture
• Proven experience with multiple cloud platform integrations (ie AWS---GCP) in design, optimization, and implementation of multiple SaaS provided that hosts critical business functionalities in Trade and Logistics

Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Personal Requirements:

Experience with application observability, system-level design, performance

• Proven ability to coach, mentor and teach junior team members
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Programs
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated experience in design and delivery of complex, multi-stream programs and projects, including preparation of project charters, delivery plans and status updates, facilitation of workshops and cross-functional meetings and coordination of change and training efforts
• Ability to multi-task and manage various projects simultaneously
• Str…