Enterprise Solutions Architect - Digital & Marketing

What You'll Do

• Develop and champion the long-term Digital & Marketing technology strategy, ensuring alignment with RaceTrac’s organizational goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to set and ensure alignment on Digital & Marketing portfolio technology strategy, guiding the evolution of the technology landscape.
• Conduct architecture reviews and technology portfolio assessments to evaluate the current technology landscape, identifying opportunities for optimization and transformation.
• Define and maintain the target-state enterprise architecture and roadmap for technology and solutions across all systems within the Digital & Marketing Ecosystem.
• Establish architectural standards, frameworks, and best practices that promote consistency and scalability across the organization.
• Identify and address architectural risks and opportunities at an enterprise level, ensuring the sustainability and scalability of solutions.
• Guide the integration of emerging technologies and industry trends into the enterprise architecture.
• Review incoming project demand to identify architectural implications.
• Partner with business teams to review solution requirements & devise solution options.
• Lead the development of project solution designs, subject to Architecture Board review.
• Lead evaluation of solution and technology decision options using fact-based analysis.
• Collaborate with business and IT teams, and facilitate design discussions to achieve consensus.
• Produce and maintain detailed and easy to understand technical architecture artifacts.
• Communicate complex technology designs clearly and succinctly in executive level presentations.
• Identify architectural risks and opportunities, ensuring appropriate decisions are taken.
• Ensure project estimates are informed by design approaches and delivery options.
• Oversee delivery efforts; guide the team on technical issues to ensure project success.
• Manage and proactively minimize technical debt.
• Ensure designs are holistic and viable as to enable predictable, on-time delivery.
• Ensure resilience, stability, availability, and recoverability, as well as other non-functional requirements, are designed into the platform.
• See, communicate, and devise plans to mitigate risk thru architectural approaches.
• Contribute to assessments of technologies, advising leadership on selection decisions.
• Contribute to and follow principles, standards, and patterns for assigned domain.
• Establish where industry trends and product / platform evolutions may be leveraged.
• Define and evangelize current and target-state architectures and plans to mature.
• Partner with communities of practice within RaceTrac.
• Ensure cross-architectural alignment of assigned tech areas with peer areas.
• Engage with the Architecture Board to ensure sound decisions on architectural matters.
• Contribute to the Enterprise Technology Catalog for assigned technology areas.
• Be a coach and mentor to development and operations teammates.
• Be an advisor to business teammates and IT management.
• Liaise with peer technology teams and technology vendors.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or equivalent experience, required.
• 5+ years of enterprise and solution architecture experience, required.
• 5+ years of experience implementing enterprise-wide technology solutions, required.
• 3+ years' experience in working with cloud technologies, required (Azure preferred).
• Experience in creating and implementing architecture roadmaps that align with both business and technical goals, required.
• Practical understanding of architectural frameworks and methods, required.
• Strong experience architecting solutions leveraging 3rd party SaaS providers and internal client applications, required.
• Skilled at leading solution architecture designs and producing design artifacts, required.
• Familiarity with Integration tools and patterns, e.g. REST APIs, Service Bus, SOA, required.
• Familiarity with Cloud & DevOps tools and practices (Serverless, IaC, CI/CD), required.
• Familiarity with B2C Digital & Marketing systems technologies, required.
• Experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Segmentation and Engagement (MAP) systems, preferred.
• Experience with Loyalty program systems, Mobile and Websites including eCommerce functions, Content Management (CMS) and Digital Asset Management (DAM), preferred.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue), responsive design, web performance optimization, BFF (Backend for Frontend), and MVC architectures, preferred.
• Strong facilitation skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and build consensus among stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams and securing buy-in, required.
• Prior experience using agile methodologies, required.
• Experience and comfort managing indirect teams; scrums, agile cross functional teams, vendor stakeholders, required.
• Excellent written, presentation and oral communication skills, required.
• Able to communicate effectively with both technical and functional audiences, required.