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Principal IT Solutions Architect - Remote at United Natural Foods Inc in Providence, Rhode Island

Posted in Software 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time





Job Description:

Who We Are

We're pioneers who every day deliver new choices that shape the foodscape. We discover what's next. Bold ideas and new possibilities that drive the industry. Better food. Better future. Our teams are a highly innovative group of talented professionals; laser-focused on making a difference and having fun while we do it.

At UNFI, we're inspired by the unexpected. We look at things like our unmatched distribution network and full-store assortment through a new lens. From gourmet and ethnic to fresh, prepared foods to specialty cheese - we cover everything in the store and your kitchen. Energizing tomorrow, guiding a healthier road ahead.

We believe that:


  • Freedom of food choice matters

  • Discovering what’s next keeps us vital

  • We’re not afraid to get our hands dirty

  • We’re here to connect food, people and the planet

  • New routes can take us anywhere

  • Scale drives our ability to positively impact lives

  • There is no limit to fresh ideas

  • Sustainability is our responsibility

A Bit About You…


  • You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

  • You wake up in the morning with a passion to inspire others to be great

  • You possess the ability to lead leaders to develop strong teams and deliver on your strategies

  • You are a natural at connecting with others and building strong relationship networks

  • You have a proven ability to leverage consumer insights to develop brand positioning

  • You understand the importance of collaboration and partnership to enable business outcomes

  • You strive to build and deliver the “big picture” strategy

  • You possess a positive mindset and often spotlight opportunities that others may overlook

 

Job Overview:

The REMOTE Principal Solutions Architect owns technical engagements and drives the ultimate success of partner projects. Acting as the “face of UNFI” with key partners and drives discussions with senior technical leaders in those organizations. Uses strategic thinking regarding business, product and technical challenges and maps the intersection of partner needs and company priorities. Utilizes excellent customer engagement and communication skills as well as the technical background to fluently interact and provide guidance to software developers and architects. Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of architecture, systems design and integration to develop level application and custom solutions and recommendations on major enhancements and interfaces, functions and features.

 

Job Responsibilities:

·     Provides technical support to strategic systems developers

·    Identifies opportunities to deliver experiences that demonstrate what is possible on devices and services

·     Develops unique, compelling and exciting presentations and demonstrations of new applications and technologies

·    Delivers persuasive, passionate, high impact, high quality presentations to senior decision makers

·     Educates developers on devices and service offerings

·    Documents best practices and creates development resources that can be used by other developers specific to Systems

·      Provides input to Enterprise Architecture that helps builds reference architecture, frameworks and toolkits to drive scale of adoption in the ecosystem

·     Manages complex projects with significant bottom-line impact

·     Advocates for enterprise architecture in relevant system space

·      Ensures that enterprise architecture guidelines and recommendations are followed and bridges gaps directly with enterprise architecture

·      Ensures that project teams follow enterprise architecture processes to include technical reviews and enterprise technical recommendations

General Architect Responsibilities:

·     Understands, advocates and augments the principles of information technology strategies

·     Ensures alignment of the enterprise architecture to the business and IT strategies and objectives

·      Analyzes the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement

·     Analyzes technology industry and market trends and determines their potential impact on the systems

·    "Sells" the architecture process to IT and the business, its outcome and ongoing results

·     Assists in defining the principles that guide technology decisions for the systems

·     Designs and leads the implementation of an enterprise architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies, as well as to rectify gaps and pain points within the current state

·      Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to technical architecture and identifies when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs

·      Assists in identifying the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the EA

·     Documents necessary enterprise architecture design and analysis work

·      Facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations as they relate to the systems (i.e. store hardware within the pharmacy Printers, scanners, image capture, etc.)

·     Acts as technical expert and critical technical resource across multiple disciplines

Solution Architect Responsibilities (as required):

 Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring EA compliance 

              ·      Develops a road map of the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state (as defined by the EA).

·     Coordinates solution architecture implementation and modification activities

·      Works closely with the enterprise program management office (PMO) or project office to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered

Application Architect Responsibilities (as required):

·      Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of architecture, application systems design and integration to develop enterprise level      application and custom integration solutions including major enhancements and interfaces, functions and features

·      Oversees application architecture implementation and modification activities, particularly for new and/or shared application solutions

·     Applies advanced knowledge of a variety of platforms to provide automated systems applications to customers

·     Provides expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business

·      Determines specifications, then plans and designs the most complex and business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes

·      Develops programming and development standards and procedures as well as programming architectures for code reuse

·      Understands and consistently applies the attributes and processes of current application development methodologies

·     Monitors emerging industry standards to determine impact on enterprise information architecture

·     Performs other duties as assigned.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:





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