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Solutions include, but are not limited to, loyalty engines, o\nThe architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.\nWhat you will do\nHere are just a few ways that you’ll help make journeys better as you demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions.\n1.Interpret Business Needs\nTranslates customer journeys and business requirements into technical requirements into business capability maps, value-stream maps, architectural blueprint and technology enablers to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.\nWorks closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.\nUnderstands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.\n2.Assess Technology\nMonitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.\nSupports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.\nUnderstands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.\nAnalyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution.\nAnalyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement.\nFacilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.\nConsults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture.\n3.Apply Technology\nLeads evaluation, design, maintenance, and evolution of the solution architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.\nManages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, driving application architects and other technical resources that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative.\nDevelops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture.\nActs as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor oCreates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.\nWorks closely with business and technology leaders as well as project and product managers to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.\nProvides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.\n4.Provide Enterprise Guidance\nProvides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.\nSupports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams and product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.\nDesigns and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.\nWhat you need\nWe want you to join our team! Here’s what we’re looking for.\nBachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience\nMinimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including solution, application, technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development\nExposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments\nGood understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models\nGood understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt\nExperience implementing an enterprise loyalty platform.\nExperience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.\nExperience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills\nAbility to work with developers in an outsourced environment.\nAbility to negotiate and resolve conflicts.\nExperience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required.\nWhat's in it for you\nOur job openings in stores and o\nCompetitive Salary plus annual bonus payment.\nComplete benefits packages (medical, dental, 401k, employee stock plan, etc.).\nPeople Perks which allows for great discounts on food and fuel.\nWork for a leading, innovative, and growing company in convenience stores operations.\nFortune 500 company and a 2-time Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award Winner.\nTuition reimbursement of $5,000 per year.\nLearning opportunities to develop new skills and to evolve professionally in a fast- growing company.\nCircle K is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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