Staples Advantage Canada
Sr Enterprise Architect II - Infrastructure Strategy
Staples Advantage Canada, Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64101
Staples is business to business.
You’re what binds us together.Our digital solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services.What you’ll be doing:Join the Enterprise Architecture team with a primary responsibility to be an End-to-End Enterprise Architect with the focus on Business, Infrastructure Modernization Strategy. Staples is on an exciting journey to redefine customer experience and deliver new brand, products and services to our customers. We are on our journey to public cloud by transforming legacy applications to Cloud Native, Microservice based API and Event Driven Architecture. You will build relationships with Business partners, Senior Product Managers, and Development teams to drive the end-to-end Architecture by applying Cloud First Strategy and principles. You will be the trusted advisor for Business and Infrastructure teams within Staples Digital Solutions in this journey. If you want to make a difference, we want to talk to you!What you bring to the table:A customer first mindset to drive architecture that is scalable, cloud first, cost effective and increases business agility.Passion for understanding and solving B2B and B2C retail domain opportunities and challenges.Highly collaborative individual who can work with technical and business teams to influence key architectural decisions.Work with Solution architecture community, Business teams and Product owners to define end to end architecture.Be able to identify Technology complexities and gaps to develop scorecards/recommendations to simplify Technology and application landscape using rationalization techniques.Deep understanding of Business, Infrastructure Capability model and demonstrable experience driving Architecture around Business Capabilities.Be the trusted advisor to Application Architects to define Architectural patterns for modernizing their applications to public cloud.Work very closely with Enterprise Cloud Architects within EA team and Cloud Engineering teams to align Solution Architecture to our Cloud First Principles.Define target state architecture and develop phased roadmaps that front load business value and deliver critical capabilities.Lead Architecture Governance function and further strengthen the Federated EA model with a community of Architects.Develop and document current and target state architecture diagrams and mappings.Provide architecture oversight of application and technology projects and programs.Motivate, coach, and serve as a role model and mentor for other architects.Qualifications - ExternalWhat’s needed- Basic QualificationsBS Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.12 years of Enterprise, Technical and Solution Architecture with strong focus on Data and distributed systems.7+ years of driving end to end Architecture with a focus on Business, Infrastructure Strategy, Technology Architecture with strong focus on Data, infrastructure.10+ years of very strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure Architecture and Development.Strong understanding of Architectural Frameworks like TOGAF as well as ability to adapt to new paradigms as we progress on the hybrid cloud journey.Experience modeling Motivation, Capability, Business, Technology architecture.Experience working on large, transformational projects and a proven ability to bring disparate technical teams together around a shared architectural vision.Very strong knowledge of modern cloud deployment patterns and architecture.Keen understanding of Cloud native solutions on Azure is preferable.Strong experience aligning EA with Scaled Agile Framework and good understanding of Value Stream based development methodology.Strong business mindset with customer obsession; ability to collaborate with business partners to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery.Strong written and verbal communication skills.Strong presentation skills to both executives and technical architects and developers.What’s needed- Preferred QualificationsMasters in computer science or other Engineering disciplines.Strong Azure Cloud Experience.We Offer:Competitive Salary. Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups and resources such as the Social Justice Resource Center.Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays), Online and Retail.Interested in joining the team? Check out our perks and benefits.
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You’re what binds us together.Our digital solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services.What you’ll be doing:Join the Enterprise Architecture team with a primary responsibility to be an End-to-End Enterprise Architect with the focus on Business, Infrastructure Modernization Strategy. Staples is on an exciting journey to redefine customer experience and deliver new brand, products and services to our customers. We are on our journey to public cloud by transforming legacy applications to Cloud Native, Microservice based API and Event Driven Architecture. You will build relationships with Business partners, Senior Product Managers, and Development teams to drive the end-to-end Architecture by applying Cloud First Strategy and principles. You will be the trusted advisor for Business and Infrastructure teams within Staples Digital Solutions in this journey. If you want to make a difference, we want to talk to you!What you bring to the table:A customer first mindset to drive architecture that is scalable, cloud first, cost effective and increases business agility.Passion for understanding and solving B2B and B2C retail domain opportunities and challenges.Highly collaborative individual who can work with technical and business teams to influence key architectural decisions.Work with Solution architecture community, Business teams and Product owners to define end to end architecture.Be able to identify Technology complexities and gaps to develop scorecards/recommendations to simplify Technology and application landscape using rationalization techniques.Deep understanding of Business, Infrastructure Capability model and demonstrable experience driving Architecture around Business Capabilities.Be the trusted advisor to Application Architects to define Architectural patterns for modernizing their applications to public cloud.Work very closely with Enterprise Cloud Architects within EA team and Cloud Engineering teams to align Solution Architecture to our Cloud First Principles.Define target state architecture and develop phased roadmaps that front load business value and deliver critical capabilities.Lead Architecture Governance function and further strengthen the Federated EA model with a community of Architects.Develop and document current and target state architecture diagrams and mappings.Provide architecture oversight of application and technology projects and programs.Motivate, coach, and serve as a role model and mentor for other architects.Qualifications - ExternalWhat’s needed- Basic QualificationsBS Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.12 years of Enterprise, Technical and Solution Architecture with strong focus on Data and distributed systems.7+ years of driving end to end Architecture with a focus on Business, Infrastructure Strategy, Technology Architecture with strong focus on Data, infrastructure.10+ years of very strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure Architecture and Development.Strong understanding of Architectural Frameworks like TOGAF as well as ability to adapt to new paradigms as we progress on the hybrid cloud journey.Experience modeling Motivation, Capability, Business, Technology architecture.Experience working on large, transformational projects and a proven ability to bring disparate technical teams together around a shared architectural vision.Very strong knowledge of modern cloud deployment patterns and architecture.Keen understanding of Cloud native solutions on Azure is preferable.Strong experience aligning EA with Scaled Agile Framework and good understanding of Value Stream based development methodology.Strong business mindset with customer obsession; ability to collaborate with business partners to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery.Strong written and verbal communication skills.Strong presentation skills to both executives and technical architects and developers.What’s needed- Preferred QualificationsMasters in computer science or other Engineering disciplines.Strong Azure Cloud Experience.We Offer:Competitive Salary. Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups and resources such as the Social Justice Resource Center.Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays), Online and Retail.Interested in joining the team? Check out our perks and benefits.
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