Sr Solution Architect
Irving, TX, United States
Overview:
? Who we are
Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.
As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee and Big Bite. Brain Freeze is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.
But theres a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.
At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. Its what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers .
Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us .
? How we lead
At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles .
Be Customer Obsessed
Be Courageous with Your Point of View
Challenge the Status Quo
Act Like an Entrepreneur
Have an It Can Be Done Attitude
Do the Right Thing
Be Accountable
Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.
? About This Opportunity
Responsibilities:
Be Courageous with Your Point of View
Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores
Provide key strategic consulting and advisory services to IT executives, project teams, operations and engineering teams to ensure that systems solutions are in line with the architectural direction and business strategies
Engage with key business stakeholders and leaders to understand business problems and needs, and effectively communicate architectural strategy and solutions to align to these needs
Conduct and provide industry research and evaluations on strategic architectural and solution alternatives
Perform price benchmarks and cost estimation and modeling of various technologies for consideration
Develop prototypes and conduct proof of concept feasibility studies
Provide guidance, review and other feedback on the evolution of systems and architectures and the adoption of new technologies with creation of technology and architecture roadmaps
Participate in Architecture Review Board, Application Portfolio Management and other key Enterprise Architecture governance activities
Coach, mentor, and manage other solution architects that are distributed onsite, offshore, and other remote locations to ensure deliverables are aligned and on track for completion/delivery
Participate in project estimations, system architecture and performance engineering of projects
Self-motivated to research newest technologies and industry trends
Utilizes this research in furthering our architecture strategy and solutions
Qualifications:
Have an It Can Be Done Attitude
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
10-15 years of experience in software development as senior engineer, technical lead
5 years of experience in a solution or technical architect role
Ability to lead a group of developers to design solutions and conduct PoCs
Strong experience in architecting large enterprise and eCommerce systems with high transaction volumes
Hands on working on MACH (Microservices, APIs-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) architecture using Java, Spring boot, Node.js
Development experience with full stack development using UI technologies like React/React Native or Native iOS/Android development and backend using microservices architecture
Hands-on experience in any cloud platforms AWS/Azure or GCP
DevOps principles, message queue systems and background task management
Proficiency in API security frameworks, token management and user access control including OAuth, JWT, etc
Hands on experience debugging production software, monitoring tools
Solid foundation and understanding of relational and NoSQL database principles
Ability to work in an Agile / SCRUM environment
Proven track record of executing on the full product lifecycle (inception through deprecation) to create highly scalable and flexible RESTful APIs to enable an infinite number of digital products
Excellent writing and communication skills
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