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Encora

Solutions Architect

Scottsdale, AZ Full Time

Key Responsibilities 

  • Architecture Leadership 
  • Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap for retail, supply chain, and warehouse management domains. 
  • Translate business strategies into actionable solution architectures and technical designs aligned with organizational goals. 
  • Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, integration patterns, and modernization approaches (cloud-native, microservices, APIs, data platforms). 
  • Design hybrid cloud architectures supporting migration from on-premises to Azure 
  • Solution Design & Delivery 
  • Collaborate with the Delivery Lead and other team members on business development, such as sizing and estimating new opportunities, creating proposals, conducting reviews, and planning engagements. 
  • Identify, assess, and solve complex business problems within the area of responsibility, requiring in-depth evaluation of variable factors. 
  • Independently lead a team to facilitate maturity assessments/gap analyses, solution assessment workshops, requirements gathering, design, and end-to-end implementation activities. 
  • Architect and design end-to-end solutions covering ERP, WMS, OMS, TMS, POS, and e-commerce platforms. 
  • Validate business requirements and conduct solution architecture and design workshops, including documenting functional and integration design, gap analysis, and solution options. 
  • Design application interfaces supporting both current and target state architectures 
  • Collaborate with existing onsite and remote teams to ensure architectural consistency 
  • Stakeholder Collaboration 
  • Partner with business leaders, product managers, and operations teams to understand requirements and shape solution approaches. 
  • Work closely with engineering, DevOps, and data teams to ensure architectural alignment and delivery excellence. 
  • Act as a trusted advisor to both internal and client stakeholders. 
  • Governance & Best Practices 
  • Establish and enforce architectural standards, design patterns, and documentation practices. 
  • Lead architecture reviews, solution assessments, and vendor/product evaluations. 
  • Ensure solutions meet compliance, security, and performance standards. 

 

Required Skills & Experience 

  • Domain Expertise: 
  • Strong understanding of retail business processes (merchandising, store ops, omni-channel commerce). 
  • In-depth knowledge of supply chain planning, order management, transportation, and logistics. 
  • Hands-on experience with warehouse management systems (e.g.,  SAP EWM, Oracle WMS, HighJump). 
  • Technical Skills: 
  • Proficiency in enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservices. 
  • Solid experience with Azure cloud platform and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker). 
  • Familiarity with data platforms, analytics, and real-time visibility solutions in supply chain/retail context. 
  • Experience with enterprise platforms covering ERP, WMS, OMS, TMS, POS, and e-commerce platforms. 
  • Leadership & Soft Skills: 
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical, and conceptual skills. 
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. 
  • Experience in leading cross-functional teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and managing vendor partnerships. 
  • Experience working as embedded consultant within client organizations 
  • Multi-team coordination across distributed delivery teams 
  • Change management and team mentoring capabilities 

Preferred Qualifications