Senior Solutions Architect-AEM

Overview

Here at Discount Tire, we celebrate the spirit of our people with extraordinary pride and enthusiasm. Our business has been growing for 60 years and now is the best time in our history to join us. We are opening more locations every year and we are always looking for qualified individuals to join us in our growth. We are a Company that promotes from within, both in our retail and corporate operations.

Under minimal supervision, the AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) Intranet Platform Specialist Senior Solutions Architect assists in analyzing software requirements, delivering cross-domain solution architectures to address Intranet product development opportunities, and automating new or enhance existing software applications/systems. The specialist in this role will be working with a project team to re-platform our existing Intranet capabilities, implement new capabilities for the digital employee experience within Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and connecting to other platforms and solutions for data integrations and content delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide solution options and designs on the optimal ways to adopt and leverage Adobe Experience Manager as the new platform for Intranet apps and content dissemination.
• Establish and administer connectivity with AEM to existing and new external systems.
• Develop and support data integrations and services into and out from AEM.
• Administer the Federated Search tool.
• Work with other internal and external IT staff (Identity Team, Network Engineering, Integrations Engineering, Intranet developers and content specialists, etc.) to get work done with and through others.
• Support and advise content publishers and developers on how to best use AEM's content management capabilities.
• Assist employees, vendors, and other internal customers by answering questions related to Intranet development, testing, and deployment processes, procedures, and services.
• Collaborate with business partners to understand software needs and define detailed business and technical requirements; translate requirements into technical solutions with developers; provide recommendations and contingency plans.
• Provide effort and duration commitments.
• Facilitate meetings and conference calls with internal stakeholders and 3rd party consultants.
• Attend meetings and provide meeting minutes. Capture key decisions and action items.
• Document requirements and capabilities into Business and Technical Design Documents, use cases and stories.
• Participate in planning workshops/ design sessions to envision and assess business needs, features, and desired capabilities.
• Capture, document and design business, application, and data workflows.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance (QA), developers/ engineers and architects to align solutions, identify dependencies, and ensure functional results.
• Conduct feasibility and impact analysis; identify cross-project, application, or business unit dependencies; provide solutions to mitigate risk; develop contingency plans for potential impacts.
• Stay current on the latest industry technologies, trends, and strategies.
• Record, maintain and manage customer software change requests within the Company's tracking system.
• Drive work to stage gate deliverables (review and give feedback on deliverables, oversee/mentor adherence to template usage, etc.)
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• This position requires a minimum of five years of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) / Adobe Experience Cloud (AEM Sites, AEM Assets, AEM Forms) solution design, build, and administration experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, testing, and delivering integrated systems using at least one middleware technology (e.g. MuleSoft, webMethods, Informatica, Tibco, etc.) connected to AEM.
• Hands-on experience incorporating M365 collaboration tools and content into AEM.
• Hands-on experience with web development technologies (HTML, XML, JavaScript, etc.)
• Integration design, build, and testing experience working with related technologies (REST API, SOAP, FTP, JSON, etc.)
• Must have an advanced understanding of the software development life cycle, requirement modeling, process mapping techniques, operating systems, databases, non-relational file structures, system design, analysis, development methodologies, and quality assurance testing methodologies.
• Experience preparing and/or executing business and technical requirements, specifications, user manuals, test plans, test scripts and test cases is also necessary.
• This position requires excellent communication, organizational, customer service and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team is vital.
• Proven ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure, meet deadlines and present a professional demeanor is essential.
• Proven ability to respond to different organizational situations while maintaining a positive and friendly attitude is necessary.
• Maintaining confidentiality, treating others with respect and upholding Company values are key attributes.
• In addition, organizational and problem-solving skills, a can-do attitude, and the ability to adjust to changing requirements are essential.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience (3+ years) as a web developer using one or more web development programming languages.
• Hands-on experience connecting to and administering Federated Search using a tool such as Coveo, ElasticSearch, Lucidworks, Kendra, etc.
• Experience working with development teams to design solutions with at least one job scheduling automation software (e.g. Skybot (Automate Schedule), Tidal, Redwood, etc.)

Education Requirements:

This position requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience.

Discount Tire provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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