IT Solution Architect - CDP at Randstad USA

job summary:

• Experience with at least one implementation or project utilizing CDP (Customer Data Platform) software (Treasure Data, Twilio, Salesforce, Adobe, Bloomreach, Action IQ, Blueconic) to name several expamples.
  
  
• 1-2 years of recent retail experience is preferred
  
  
• Experience with (eCommerce or Cloud in retail) preferred
  
  
• Prefer experience with Java (Spring Boot), Kafka, Kubernetes
  
  
• Experience in Data Integration patterns and tools
  
  
• Experience in designing solutions in cloud and hybrid cloud environments
  
  
• Understanding of networks and security as it relates to integration and data flow between systems
  
  
• Solid grasp of security in both on prem as well as cloud environments
  
  
• Familiar with vendor management tools and integration with EA tools
  
  
• Knowledge of IT Architectural frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman
  
  
• Knowledge of retail supply chain and planning, including merchandising preferred
  
  
• At least two implementations of enterprise class supply chain management systems preferred
  
  
• experience in services (SOA/Microservices) design preferred
  
  
• experience with retailing COTS enterprise class applications preferred

Skills:

• Ability to bridge the gap between waterfall and agile methodologies
  
  
• Ability to build consensus around proposed solutions
  
  
• Ability to work well independently, as well as effectively contribute to a team environment
  
  
• Analytical, with problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills
  
  
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
  
  
• Preferred skills include optimization skills - stochastic modeling, optimization algorithms, holistic planning
  
  
• Ability to understand and derive lower-level roadmaps with business leadership to help set requirements' context

 
location: Katy, Texas
job type: Permanent
salary: $155,000 - 160,000 per year
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
  
  
• Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work.
  
  
• Works with business and technology subject matter experts to derive end-to-end solutions that provide value to the enterprise and these solutions comply with standards and guidelines set forth by Enterprise Architecture
  
  
• Interacts with business leadership to establish a solid working relationship between IT and operations
  
  
• Must be able to model solutions from conceptual, logical and physical perspectives (N+1 views)
  
  
• Creates artifacts that define the N+1 views of the end-to-end solution (context, data domain, logical, physical, and deployment)
  
  
• Facilitates the requirements refinement process; with special focus on service-level requirements
  
  
• Collaborates with other parts of IT to ensure a thorough understanding of the proposed architecture; must be willing to accept and factor-in feedback
  
  
• Participates in design reviews to ensure traceability of the design to the proposed solution architecture
  
  
• Contributes to enterprise guidelines, standards and principles as precedents are discovered and adopted
  
  
• Articulates architecture decisions behind the solution architecture
  
  
• Takes initiative in working with business stakeholders to ensure their requirements (immediate and future) will be addressed by IT

 
qualifications:

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 10 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors

 
skills:

• Retail
• Software Architecture
• Ecommerce
• Cloud
• CDP
• Customer Data Platform
  

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