Client: RaceTrac
Location: Hybrid onsite in Atlanta, GA. Candidates must be local to the area
Pay Rate: Around $85/hr. C2C
Visa Restrictions: GC or USC preferred, we will consider an H1, GC-EAD, H4 – EAD.
Job Description:
This Sr. Solutions Architect position is part of the Marketing Technology team focused on enabling the development and roll-out of world-class modern marketing capabilities. This role sits at the intersection of marketing strategy and technology, partnering with teams responsible for platforms that leverage world-class technology to create personalized, relevant, data-driven experiences using our Marketing Technology stack inclusive of Loyalty Management SaaS Platform, Marketing Activation Platform, Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Content Management System(CMS), Personalization engines, Campaign Management tools (email, SMS, push notifications, etc.,), and other tools to create meaningful experiences for our Loyal Guests.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Architecture design (40%)
• Identify end-to-end technical solutions based on business needs that utilize a service-based architecture incorporating API’s and Events for decoupling Digital and Backend application services.
• Architect Solutions are designed as reusable components (API’s/ Microservices) that compose an overall solution that’s flexible, scalable, performant, and providing excellent user experience
• Accountable for implementation of cross-functional solution architecture of all technologies in the Marketing Technology stack
• Ensure technologies are optimized, recommending investments and rationalization and if necessary, conducts technology assessment and selection
• Demonstrates leadership ability to back decisions through research and the “why,” articulate several options, and the pros and cons for each
• Supports and defines optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications Consultation (20%)
• Drives full-service consultation with project sponsors from discovery through deployment: scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment
• Ensures delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirement
• Provides technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of solutions or escalation to service owner
• Ensures delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk
• Provides support and technical governance expertise related to architectures, deployment, and operation
Thought Leadership (20%)
• Provides industry thought leadership to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions, solving complex business requirement
• Proactively considers future state of the organization and how technology can support these effort
• Advocates and define Marketing cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and system
• Maintains overall MarTech industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc.
Mentoring (20%)
• Act’s as a coach and mentor to team members and technical staff on their assigned project task
• Supports development of a cohesive team and play an active role in their continued succe
• Conducts product work reviews with team membersSr. Solutions Architect (MarTech)
• Serves in the development of team members by actively facilitating new learning opportunities and experiences in the architecture space
Work Experience/ Education:
• 10+ years of hands-on Solutions Architecture experience with Loyalty Management SaaS Platform Partech Punchh or any other equivalent platforms like: Merkle LoyaltyPlus for Adobe Experience Platform, Oracle CX Marketing, Yotpo, Growave, Tango Card, Giftbit, Clover, NextBee, Adobe, or any other equivalent platforms,
• 8+ years of hands-on Solutions Architecture experience with Marketing Activation SaaS Platforms like Adobe Marketo, Adobe Experience Cloud, Oracle Marketing Cloud, MoEngage Customer Engagement Platform, IBM Marketing Cloud, Braze, Bloomreach, Blueshift, etc.,
• Experience with Campaign Management, Customer Data Platforms, Content Management, Advertising Technology, Personalization Engines as a Solution, etc.,
• Minimum of 7 years development experience, capable of designing and implementing complex solution
• Experience in Microsoft Azure cloud (or any other equivalent Cloud service provider) application design, development, and deployment
• Experience integrating Loyalty Management Platforms with Digital Guest engagement channels like Web, Mobile Apps, POS, etc.,
• Experience with event streaming and web service protocols like SOAP, REST, JSON or Kafka
• Experience architecting, designing, and deploying complex technology, with an eye towards automation, simplicity, and rationalization
• Skilled leading and/or participating in system design and architectural activities including technical requirement writing experience and ability to lead collaboration sessions for important design reviews and decisions.
Tech Skills:
• Microsoft Azure Cloud: APIM, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Key Vault, Azure App Insights, Azure SQL, Azure DevOp
• Databases: Azure SQL, Databricks, MongoDB,
• DevOps: GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline
• Programming Languages: C#, JavaScript, .NET, etc.,
• Mobile App Dev Technologies: Java, Swift, React Native,
• Web Dev technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript,
• API Development: Azure APIM, REST APIs, web services, security such as Oauth2, SAML, IDM, open API standards like swaggers, RAML, developer portal,
• API Testing: Postman,
• Log Analytics: Splunk, Dynatrace
• Web/Mobile App Analytics: Google Analytics, Firebase, Google Tag management
• Architecture modeling: Lucid Chart, Visio, ARIS, etc.,
• Software development Experience using SaFe Agile methodologies.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related study, or equivalent experience
Additional Requirements:
• Proven experience succeeding in complex, matrix and cross-functional project
• Ability to personally deliver large scale initiatives in a fast-paced environment with high levels of complexity and ambiguity
• Experience and comfort managing indirect teams; scrums, agile cross functional teams, vendor stakeholder
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team-based environment including employees, vendors and third-party contractor
• Ability to inspire, influence and collaborate across a wide range of constituents across functions and organizational level
• Excellent mentoring skills and the desire to contribute to efforts beyond the scope of the day-to-day project work
• Innovative thinking to approach challenges from multiple fronts, and ability to think outside the box
• Willing to take action and enjoy working in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent written, presentation and oral communication skill
• Knowledge of technical architecture as a role discipline
• Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis, and design, and/or client/server system
Role Specific Competencies: (kinds of behavior and skills needed in addition to leadership qualities or core values)
• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly/ Can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately/ Has broad knowledge and perspective/ Is future oriented/ Can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods/ Can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Business Acumen: Knows how businesses work/ Knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting his/her business and organization/ Knows the competition/ Is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace
• Managing Vision and Purpose: Communicates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose/ Talks beyond today/ Talks about possibilities/ Is optimistic/ Creates mileposts and symbols to rally support behind the vision/ Makes the vision sharable by everyone/ Can inspire and motivate entire units or organization
• Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done/ Knows how to organize people and activities/ Understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow/ Knows what to measure and how to measure it/ Can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can’t/ Can simplify complex processes/ Gets more out of fewer resource
• Planning: Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects/ Sets objectives and goals/ Breaks down work into the process steps/ Develops schedules and task/people assignments/ Anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks/ Measures performance against goals/ Evaluates results