Solution Architect - Merch Fresh Foods

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale , the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family . Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Solution Architects create IT architecture & design solutions based on business requirements, industry trends, and technology options. Solution Architects are responsible and accountable for the solution architecture in partnership with enterprise architects, domain architects, and engineering teams. Solution Architects partner with the delivery team for solution planning, delivery, detailed design and implemented solutions. Solution Architects ensure the implemented solutions are consistent with the approved architecture. Solution Architects communicate, mentor, and lead teams based on program or project needs for solution delivery.

This Individual will be responsible for supporting the Fresh Foods business areas with existing and new technologies. Fresh Foods is an emerging area of focus in CDS to deliver innovative solutions that will drive sales and optimize operations.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

● Designs, develops and ensures compliance to architectural standards throughout the lifecycle.

● Analyzes the Business-IT environment (run, grow, and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation, and innovation)

● Identifies aging technology issues, or misalignment, with business requirements, and proposes solutions.

● Partners with Enterprise Architects for domain roadmaps and reference architecture.

● Executes projects and initiatives on the domain roadmap in partnership with Enterprise Architects.

● Consults with application and infrastructure development projects, and identifies when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solution architecture.

● Ensures cohesiveness of solution designs across various projects/solutions.

● Collaborates with Enterprise Architects to balance needs between Solution Architectural Guardrails.

● Designs, develops, and directs solution architectures, design exceptions, and governance activities in compliance with target states, reference architectures, architecture standards, technology guardrails, and security and operational guidelines.

● Identifies the organizational impact (Skills, processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.

● Creates non-functional specs for operational agility, disaster recovery, and support.

● Establishes solution delivery flow for continuous integration, testing and delivery, and operational deployment in partnership with project managers, solution leads and other stakeholders.

● Conducts design reviews to validate alignment with architecture.

● Modifies solution architecture to support changing business or technology requirements.

● Documents solutions architecture design and analysis work, and communicates architectural decisions that impact solution.

● Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

● Communicates infrastructure, software, information, and/solution concepts to all levels of management.

● Designs methodology that consistently yields the right level of technical design documentation and develops technical solutions that conform both to customer requirements and information development standards.

● Adheres to Costco’s Architectural Framework and Governance model.

● Collaborates with other Merchandise solution architects to contribute to product and platform roadmaps.

● Collaborates with Value Stream leaders and product teams to maintain 3+ year architecture roadmaps.

● Collaborates with product teams to maintain logical and physical architecture documentation quarterly.

● Participates and contribute to innovation brainstorming and implementation.

REQUIRED

● 3+ years experience:

● Architecting and supporting the delivery of complex, enterprise cloud solutions.

● Engineering or software development on using various technologies

● Designing large scale data integration solutions.

● 5+ years of experience with large scale systems.

● Professional Information Technology experience in solutioning, designing, development, and delivering computer systems.

● Hands-on solutions architecture experience with COTS package integration experience.

● Skills in leadership, relationship building, negotiation, collaboration, advocacy, governance, and consensus building.

● Knowledge of IT Application architecture, and Design methodologies across multiple platforms.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills (facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution) at all levels.

● Ability to translate technical ideas/designs to multiple audiences, including Executives.

● Excellent technical leadership skills:

● Experience leading and coordinating large projects as technical project manager or project lead.

● Ability to interface with and influence people at multiple levels within the organization.

● Experience developing strong relationships with stakeholders and teams.

● Team player. Proven ability to work effectively within a large organization that operates using a matrix organization.

● Thorough understanding of and experience with multiple SDLC methods such as waterfall, SCRUM, and/or Agile.

● Ability to communicate trade-offs and transactional states with technical and business teams.

● Ability to make architecture changes in a dynamic agile environment.

Recommended

● Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365.

● Experience with React, Node JS, or equivalent.

● Experience with Power Platform.

● Experience with ePlum, or other enterprise scale management platforms.

● Experience with any ETL tool.

● Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Required Documents

● Cover Letter

● Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 2 - $120,000 - $155,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

Level 3 - $145,000 - $180,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

Level 4 - $175,000 - $230,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement