Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Ready to take your technology planning and delivery expertise to the next level?

At our Company, we grow People, Brands, and Businesses! As an Enterprise Architect at Advantage Solutions, you'll be a driving force in reshaping our organization's technological future. You'll be at the heart of a team designing and building a transformative tech landscape that accelerates our business growth and defines the future of how we work. This is your chance to make a profound impact-shaping cutting-edge solutions that drive both our daily operations and long-term success.

Take this opportunity to join North America's leading business solutions provider and build your career working with amazing people in a growing industry! Apply today!

What we offer:

Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
• 401(k) with company match
• Training and Career Development
• Generous Paid Time-Off

Responsibilities:

• Design & Innovate: Develop enterprise architecture strategies that align with business objectives while ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency. You'll create blueprints for the next generation of systems to power the company's success.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work with IT leadership, product teams, and business leaders to build and execute a unified vision for the future. You'll turn complex challenges into actionable architectural solutions that fuel our transformation.
• Architect for the Future: Use your technical expertise to drive the integration of cutting-edge cloud technologies, modern platforms, and enterprise systems. Your work will help our business stay ahead of the curve with forward-thinking technology.
• Drive Strategic Change: Establish architectural standards, best practices, and methodologies that ensure consistency, efficiency, and agility across the organization. You'll guide teams toward adopting transformative technologies that reshape how we operate and deliver value.
• Lead with Impact: Take ownership of key architectural decisions, from shaping high-level concepts to managing application portfolios and rationalization plans. Your decisions will have a direct and lasting impact on our product development, operational efficiency, and overall business agility.
• Champion Cloud & Modern Infrastructure: Collaborate with the cloud transformation team to build cloud-first architecture plans that drive scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Help guide product teams on their journey toward becoming a fully integrated, cloud-driven enterprise.
• Mentor & Guide: Share your knowledge and expertise with junior engineers, solution architects, and cross-functional teams, creating a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and technical excellence within our organization.

Qualifications/Interests:

• Educational Foundation: A bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. (We value your technical expertise as the foundation for building our future!)
• Extensive Experience: At least 10 years of hands-on experience in the tech field, with a strong 5+ years dedicated to solution architecture.
• Proven Leadership: You've already made a significant impact as a Lead Solution Architect within a large-scale organization, leading transformative projects and pushing technological boundaries.
• Strategic Vision: You have a history of leading tech teams, defining strategic technology directions, and guiding organizations in how to manage and harness the power of technology for long-term success.
• Analytical Expertise: You possess an exceptional ability to dissect complex IT challenges and make informed decisions across a broad spectrum of IT assets, driving impactful results.
• Collaborative Architect: Partner with Domain and other Solution Architects to prepare for Architecture Review Boards, manage Architecture Portfolio, and lead Architecture Assessments-ensuring our strategy is both innovative and executable.
• Metrics-driven: Skilled in developing architecture metrics, creating actionable plans, and leading cross-functional teams to achieve measurable success.
• Hands-On Leadership: Proven track record in leading the design, development, and deployment of large-scale business software solutions, ensuring seamless execution at every stage.
• Tech Infrastructure Expertise: Deep experience in technology infrastructure (network, compute, storage, virtualization) and familiarity with Microsoft technologies (cloud, power platforms, enterprise apps) that drive enterprise success.
• Cloud Mastery: Demonstrated experience in successfully navigating the challenges of migrating systems and workloads to the Cloud, transforming business operations with scalable and secure solutions.
• Change Champion: Experience leading change management and IT transformation programs, guiding organizations through process engineering, and adapting to new technologies.
• Cloud Computing Savvy: An in-depth understanding of cloud computing technologies, overcoming transition challenges, and shaping the future of enterprise IT on the cloud.
• Collaborative Influence: A natural at partnering across teams and influencing decision-making, driving consensus to enable large-scale change.

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled.

The Company is one of North America's leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Responsibilities

• Leads medium-large-scale projects throughout the entire lifecycle: solution architecture, engineering design, development, testing, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements
• Provides technical guidance to the executive team and makes wide-scale architectural and design decisions. Estimates, assesses, and manages project timelines with the management and executive teams
• Reviews designs and mission critical code to ensure is clear, concise, tested, and easily understood by others as well as meets standards, architectural principles, and NFRs
• Mastered understanding of all components of key features and architecture for multiples products, with a high-level understanding of several other products, integrations, and capabilities.
• Understands, advocates, and contributes ADV technology and engineering standards and technology best practices
• Demonstrates an ability to succeed in a wide range of complex technical situations across multiple axes: e.g., scale, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.
• Is a resource for other teams that need help with adjacent features.
• Advises the management team with insights and recommendations that will improve the team. Helps to create job description requirements, and participates in interview loops. Mentors multiple teammates.

Supervisory Responsibilities
Direct Reports
This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports.
Indirect Reports
May delegate work to others and provide guidance, direction, and mentoring to indirect reports.

Travel Requirements
This position requires 10% travel.

Minimum Qualifications

Education Level: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Master's degree preferred.

Experience Requirements:

5-10+ years experience in engineering, programming, software development, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networks, and concurrent/event-based development.

Environmental & Physical Requirements

Office / Sedentary Requirements

Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the abilty to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced understanding of engineering, programming, and software development foundations.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networks, and programming languages.
• Expertise in concurrent and event-based development, and development/test frameworks.
• Exceptional leadership and strategic decision-making skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence senior leadership in shaping the company's technology and product direction.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions

Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of associates so classified.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.