Sr. Solution Architect

About the opportunity:

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

Bachelor’s 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