Solution Architect - Athlete Experience (REMOTE)

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams.  We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

Scope
The Solution Architect role is responsible for leading the technology design and recommended solutions for our emerging Athlete Experience investments in our Marketing, eCommerce, and Store Tech domains, including driving both new technology systems and legacy system transformations to deliver modern omni-channel capabilities.

The Solution Architect drives end-to-end technology designs for significant business opportunities at Dicks Sporting Goods through their experience, leadership, and deliverables. They are a catalyst to bringing the next-generation experiences for our athletes and teammates to life by leveraging forward-looking technologies and platforms.  A Solution Architect works across many functions to drive end-to-end thinking and consensus towards a solution that will drive expected business value.

The Solution Architect will work with business and product management to translate and map business goals into technology capabilities. They will collaborate with other architects, platform engineers, and product engineers to guide and support teams into a technical design which leverages reference architecture patterns, meets enterprise design best practices, matures cross-domain shared services, and supports foundational technology alignment, controls, and reliability. 

Experience

Direct Experience with designing and building Service-Oriented & Event-Driven Architectures, Azure Cloud Technologies & Services, Enterprise Data Storage & Compute platforms, Scaled Enterprise Data solutions, and Commerce/Marketing vendor platforms is desired.  This Solution Architect will be hands-on and collaborate with both engineering and platform teams to design, build, and deliver technology solution spikes and proof-of-concepts to support proposed business solution designs and mature DSG enterprise technology capabilities. 

Deliverables
The Solution Architect will deliver artifacts to assess business & systems impacts, publish current & transitional systems diagrams, and ensure non-functional requirements are reviewed for foundational tech alignment & platform infrastructure planning.  They will incorporate inputs and controls from security, compliance, reliability, and performance engineering to meet the non-functional requirements.  Finally, they will work with business stakeholders, product management, and engineering teams to turn technology design options, risks, and feasibility assessments into a recommended solution and technology roadmap.

JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Leadership

• Stays current on emerging technical trends, patterns, and solutions for domain. Acts as resident expert for how technology in the domain is changing and influences business and technical teams to innovate and adopt

• Acts as the end-to-end technical architecture lead for initiatives to collaborate, drive, and communicate design, context and considerations, including hands-on development of proof-of-concepts and reference architectures

• Recommends, leads, and participates in solution architecture work for domain programs and outcomes ensuring that the proposed architecture solution is consistent with long-term strategic business objectives, aligns with technology platform roadmaps, and is supported by reference architecture patterns.

Solution Leadership

• Produces and maintains technology systems & solution views and technology roadmaps for their domain. Ensures these are accurate, pragmatic and actionable with product engineering teams, business stakeholders, and foundational tech teams.

• Maintains a consistent solution architecture design for the domain. Maintains views for current and transitional states, risks and feasibility, and recommendations towards directional technology roadmaps.

• Drives execution for large business initiatives including documentation, roadmaps, communications, and alignment of solutions architecture into business, product and technical plans.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Organizes and leads discussions for technical design solutioning with engineering teams. Helps assist and drive domain and application roadmaps into actionable steps for engineering leaders.  Updates and maintains technical domain leadership on reviews, risks and domain technical direction.

• Leads software engineers in solution architecture practices including reviewing potential technology solutions and implementing proof of concepts, ensures critical design thinking, standards compliance, cross-team collaboration, alignment with broader platform architecture decisions, and input into the business and technology domain roadmaps.

• Shares best practices, technology patterns, lessons learned, and updates the technical system architecture roadmap and reference architectures based on maturing technologies and knowledge related to recent, current, and upcoming technology vendor products and solutions.

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QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred

• General Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)

• Managerial Experience: Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)

• Experience as a technical architect for a major technology implementation in a
  Retail or Marketing project is a plus