about this team
Upstream Supply Chain Technology enables and accelerates the growth of Supply Chain from RM to FG production, by providing innovative solutions while ensuring product integrity and compliance. Our purpose is to empower the organization to strategically envision, drive innovation, optimize sourcing and manufacturing processes, cultivate a responsible Supply Chain, ensure superior product quality, and uphold market leadership. We are a team that dares to innovate, support each other, elevate our partnerships, and collaborate while having fun. We are looking for a Solution Architect to support the technology team responsible for product quality and raw materials development. In this influential role, you will collaborate closely with business partners, product management and delivery team to shape the team’s roadmap and define the technology vision.
- Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap
- Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build
- Design and document re-usable and scalable frameworks and components
- Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives
- Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are built for the enterprise
- Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI
- Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions
- Collaborate with Product Management, Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from concept to implementation
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience including at least 4 years at a retail/supply-chain organization in Solution Architect capacity
- Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry, familiar with application systems and business practices in this realm
- Experience solutioning end-to-end full-stack applications, integration of SaaS and PaaS systems
- Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 3-5 years
- Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools
- Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns
- Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
- Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
- Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
- Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
- Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
- Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take yourself too seriously.
- Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
- Paid time off
- Savings and retirement plan matching
- Generous employee discount
- Fitness & yoga classes
- Parenthood top-up
- Extensive catalog of development course offerings
- People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)