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Job Title: Data Solution Architect-CDP

Work Location: Katy, TX

Education/Experience Required: 10+ years' of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role; 2-3 years of retail experience is REQUIRED

Job Description & 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
• Develops a thorough understanding of policies, procedures and safety rules
• Duties may change; Team Member may be required to perform other duties as assigned

Skills & Qualifications:

• 10+ years' of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role
• 2-3 years of retail experience is REQUIRED
• Must have experience as a Lead Architect implementing a CDP (Customer Data Platform) within a Retail Organization, i.e. Treasure Data, Twilio Segment, Tealium, Salesforce, Acquia, etc.
• 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
• Strong experience in services (SOA/Microservices) design preferred
• Strong experience with retailing COTS enterprise class applications preferred

Skills:

• Ability to bridge the gap between waterfall and agile methodologies
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, and interface effectively with individuals at various levels
• Ability to build consensus around proposed solutions
• Ability to work well independently, as well as effectively contribute to a team environment
• Analytical, with strong 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 strong optimization skills – stochastic modeling, optimization algorithms, holistic planning
• Ability to understand and derive lower-level roadmaps with business leadership to help set requirements' context
• Strong Microsoft Office program experience, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint and SharePoint

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