Lead Solution Architect - Shared Data Platform

About the Role

The Lead Solution Architect role is responsible for providing technical leadership to cross-functional teams in the design and implementation of comprehensive system/product architectures that effectively integrate with Sherwin's overall IT infrastructure and support key business objectives. The incumbent will be responsible for evaluating program or project challenges, creating conceptual and logical architectural designs that alleviate challenges, and providing technical guidance in implementing those designs. This will require collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve system design weaknesses, ensuring high-quality performance and maintainability of the specific hardware and software systems. The Incumbent will ensure that solution architectures align with the overall Enterprise Architecture and meet business requirements.

WHAT THE ROLE WILL DO:

• Provide expert guidance in designing and implementing highly complex, integrated frameworks, tech-stacks, systems, and platforms that align with and drive the organization's IT strategy and business objectives
• Lead and oversee the entire process of developing application components and integrations, ensuring all solutions align with the business objectives, enterprise architecture, and performance goals
• Develop and implement best practices and standards for processes and technical specifications related to hardware and software compatibility, system interfaces, and business application prototypes
• Lead the effort to continuously research and analyze industry trends and emerging technologies to inform architectural decisions
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional teams, including software developers, business analysts, enterprise architects, and product managers to ensure the successful adoption of industry-leading design and architecture practices
• Provide strategic direction on the development of architectural frameworks, patterns, and standards used across multiple products or systems
• Provide technical expertise in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of next-generation technical initiatives, while also offering guidance as complex technology issues arise
• Lead the technical evaluation of new solutions to ensure alignment with existing frameworks and standards defined across the organization
• Champion and guide the extended team to adopt and implement leading-edge design and architect practices
• Foster cross-functional collaboration among a diverse range of stakeholders across the business to ensure that product and solution design align with architectural principles, policies, standards, and frameworks

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

This position is eligible for remote work but requires travel including attending in-person meetings, trainings, on-site events, and for team collaboration.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

What the Incumbent will need

• Education
  
  
  
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    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or in lieu of a degree, at least 10 years of experience in experience in IT
    
    
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    • Expert-level architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF, CISSP)
      
      
    
    
  
  

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• 8+ years of experience in IT or a solution architecture role
• Proven experience in designing complex hardware and software solutions for large-scale IT systems
• Expertise in collaborating, communication, and presenting with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact business solutions
• Extensive knowledge of modern architectural patterns, frameworks, and industry best practices
• Expertise with cloud computing, data center operations, network design, and security best practices
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to innovate and think creatively

Technical Skills

• Cloud Technologies & Platforms
• Programming Languages
• Web Services & APIs, including Microservices and SOA
• Data Analysis
• Architecture Governance & Standards
• Prompt Engineering
• Data Warehousing & ETL Processes
• Solution Architecture Patterns
• Software Development Lifecyle (SDLC) Methodology
• Emerging Technologies and Automation Tools
• Software Testing & Quality Assurance Methodologies & Tools
• Business Strategy Development
• Change Management

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Possesses Strong functional knowledge on Party and Product MDM (Master Data Management), Experience in Cloud Application Development, Data Quality Monitoring and Data Quality Reporting related technology development and configuration (Data Quality as a Service, Data Quality API, DQ Dashboards etc)
• Lead technology life-cycle projects including technology evaluation, selection, implementation, support and retirement/replacement , evaluate alternative architectures with respect to their feasibility as well as composition (people, hardware, software, facilities, policies, documents, risks and cost), and make recommendations and develop prototypes of system designs, working with Enterprise,Domain,Technical Architects and Delivery Teams, to prove viability where necessary.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, systems models, use case scenarios, workflow diagrams, and data models to provide architectural expertise, direction, and guidance to IT delivery teams.