JobID: 49994 Position: Solutions Architect Location: United States (Remote ; Eastern Time Zone Work Hours) Type: 12+ month Contract Pay: $60.00 - $70.00 per hour Role Description • Lead the technical architecture initiative for our commerce unification project. • Project is focused on providing a cohesive approach to product data and metadata management. • Partner with the Product Operations Manager tasked with coordinating this effort. • Identify opportunities to apply standard architecture patterns (e.g., event sourcing or microservices), as well as evolutionary patterns (e.g., strangler or revert to source). • Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards. • Convert complex requirements and business constraints into highly legible and simplified architecture solutions. • Communicate and present architecture proposals to business partners, leadership, and engineering teams. • Define and incorporate non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, availability, scalability, security, etc.) into the design of the final product. • Guide engineering and other stakeholders on architectural best practices and standards. • Collaborate with multiple teams to help them execute solutions across their planning & execution cycles. Requirements • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, related field, or equivalent professional experience. • 8+ years of experience in information technology or software engineering, with significant experience in solution architecture and technical leadership. • Proficiency in software architecture, system design, and system integration. • Strong experience building and managing enterprise ecommerce systems. • Comfortable providing code design feedback in at least one language. In order of prevalence, we use Node.js, TypeScript, React, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby • Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills. • Exceptional written communication. You find joy in writing Request for Comments (RFCs) or other software design document formats, presenting them widely, and incorporating feedback. • Experience driving projects executed by geographically distributed teams. • Experience with ETL processes and database management (MongoDB) is essential. • Proficiency with Agile and DevOps methodologies and experience working in Agile development environments. • Experience with developer platforms and infrastructure-as-code. We use Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes on AWS (EKS). • Deep knowledge of domain-driven design principles and their application in system architecture. • Ability to influence across all levels of an organization without formal authority. • Strong interpersonal skills. You love working with technical and non-technical teams in a dynamic environment of both emerging and established technology solutions. • Adept at designing solutions for mixed cloud & on-premises environments. • Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer • #DICE