Solutions Architect - FedEx Corporation

Under limited guidance, work at the business unit level developing the end-to-end solution architecture for significant initiatives in partnership with key business and IT stakeholders.

Great opportunity to be part of the FedEx Supply Chain Operations IT organization which will provide you with a unique opportunity to impact transformation and strategic initiatives for a leading transportation and logistics provider. As a Solutions Architect, this position is focused on providing solutions for supply chain automation within a SAFe portfolio. Daily activities will include engagement with enterprise, data, and domain architects to solution strategic initiatives. In this position, you will work in close partnership other solution as well as application architects in the

development agile teams providing architectural and application guidance to solve problems with high system interdependency. The position requires understanding of the impact and influence of broader industry and technology trends on the application landscape to recommend modernizing action plans for our operations.

Essential Functions:

• Exposes current state architecture and identifies options for future state architecture.
• Works closely with business and IT stakeholders creating solutions that balance competing interests and concerns.
• Develops plans for and facilitates the migration from current to selected future state by providing technical leadership to multiple initiatives.
• Participate and engage with the PRT (decomposition & analysis) to understand the Epic request.
• Participate and engage with the Solution/Product Management team to ensure feasibility of the capabilities and features created during the Solution Delivery Assessment phase.
• Lead & create the Solution Context & Solution Intent artifacts as part of the Solution Delivery Decomposition and Analysis phases.
• Provide conceptual and detailed design of data structures for data at rest (databases) and data in motion (API interfaces, messages).
• Be able to communicate with Business and IT leadership/stakeholders on a daily basis using various channels such as phone, emails, chats and presentations.
• Mentor those in less senior positions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Document and implement solution, and application architecture and define components, platforms, interfaces, and development tools
• Analyze business requirements and develop functional and non-functional system requirements
• Participate and engage with the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure feasibility of the capabilities and features created during the Solution Delivery Assessment phase.
• Identify strategic and tactical solutions and be able to influence and negotiate with colleagues and business partners
• Produce architecture and oversee the development of cross-functional, highly scalable, cloud ready solutions
• Promote the appropriate architecture and design principles and patterns to be leveraged for every technology enabled solution
• Collaborate regularly with peer architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise direction
• Perform all documentation and process responsibilities for Architecture Delivery, Disaster Recovery and Open Source Software requests and evaluations
• Must be experienced in modernizing/replacing legacy systems
• Must be experienced in collaborating on architecture with solution provider vendors

Abilities/Skills/Knowledge:

• Experience with Sparx EA
• Working knowledge of established application design frameworks and UML
• Ability to successfully influence change
• Strong problem solving and communication skills
• Experience with implementing architecture principles and patterns
• Experience with deploying in public cloud (Azure)
• Spring Boot, Public/Hybrid Cloud PaaS experience, relational database, NoSQL, and Linux skill-sets desired
• Working knowledge of cloud data storage fundamentals, networking and Splunk
• Experience with SOA, API First, service design and development
• Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems that process large data volumes with low latency
• Working knowledge and experience developing large scale distributed systems
• Experience in building real-time interfaces between heterogeneous systems
• Experience working within Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and XP development practices
• Experience in Continuous Integration/Deployment (DevSecOps) environment preferred
• Experience in setting application architectural direction and disaster recovery models

The ideal candidate also demonstrates the following core competencies:

• Time management and prioritization skills
• Independent worker
• Project management, system analysis and design experience is helpful
• Proactive, great attention to detail, results-oriented problem solver
• Ability to balance long term goals against immediate concerns in the areas of code maintainability, developer productivity and the customer experience
• Thinking outside the box, willingness to battle for good ideas, willingness to collaborate with team members

Domicile Information:

This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information Systems, business and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.

Minimum Experience

Five (5) years equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirement.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

General knowledge of hardware, software, and network.

Human relations.

Communication.

Preferred Qualifications: 

Pay Transparency: This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the currentstarting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factorspermitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, and tuition reimbursement.

Pay: US Pay Range: $8,007.29/month - $14,413.11/month

Additional Details: Application Criteria: Upload current copy of Resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire by 11/7/24.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact recruitmentsupport@fedex.com.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws:

• Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law
• EEO is the Law Supplement
• Pay Transparency Policy
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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