IT Architect

Company: Autozone
Location: Memphis
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Summary Architects collaborate with customers, business analysts, designers, and software developers to analyze, plan, design, and deliver innovative solutions to complex, high-value business problems. Responsibilities * Define enterprise guidelines and enforce enterprise development standards and practices * Map project business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with enterprise architectural plans and industry best practices * Define and develop the emerging solution architectures and ensure that the team is successful within the technical framework * Lead, direct, and produce technical designs/architectures at a project, product, and program level with proficiency in the areas of disaster recovery, data integrity, service continuity, component redundancy, security, etc. * Participate in and lead high and low-level technology discussions with management, vendors, and customers * Provide technical leadership to build consensus among stakeholders around proposed designs * Within the agreed-upon application architecture, produce technology solutions to assist the business in meeting their objectives * Ensure solutions and new features are designed and implemented according to established design and architectural standards and practices (and, where necessary, facilitate acceptable tradeoffs) * Review and analyze detailed business requirements; assist in prioritization and scoping of user stories to align customer expectations with current or future capabilities * Develop, test, and implement technology solutions and report on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are implemented as expected and to agreed-upon timeframes * Lead software developers in application design and patterns Providin examples if necessary. * Research new technologies and best practices for approaching and implementing emerging technologies and techniques * As needed, work as part of the development team, providing technical guidance and direction with examples, POCs, and prototypes * Research, learn, and provide guidance on preexisting legacy technologies, systems, and techniques * Requirements * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar required, Master s degree preferred * Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in architecture/design with background in software development required * Minimum of 8+ years of experience in information technologies required * Minimum of 3+ years of experience in Java, Linux, and Oracle required * Experience with infrastructure preferred * Any eCommerce platform experience preferred like ATG/Hybris * A systems thinker, able to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detail-oriented implementation; open minded to new ideas, approaches, and technologies * A data and fact-driven decision maker, with an ability to make quick decisions under uncertainty when necessary; able to quickly learn new technologies and tools * A self-starter that is naturally inquisitive, requiring only small pieces to the puzzle, across many technologies new and legacy * Deep knowledge around the selection and defining of appropriate data model strategies within traditional RDBMS, NoSQL, and Graph database technologies * Experience designing large-scale solutions that were deployed to cloud providers (e.g. PCF, GCP) and integrated capabilities specific to those platforms * Experience designing, implementing, and deploying large-scale, highly- available, service-based software systems (e.g., REST, micro-services), especially extensible platforms that support ecosystems of third-party application/plugin developers * Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and designs to a broad range of people * Extensive experience with all aspects of Java and the Spring framework Show moreShow less

Keywords: Autozone, Memphis , IT Architect, Other , Memphis, Tennessee