It Solutions Architect

Basic Information

Job Category: IT

Location: Coral Gables, FL, Florida, United States

Date published: 18-May-2023

Job type: Full Time

Description and Requirements

About the role

IT Solutions Architect

Fyffes North America is currently seeking an experienced IT Solutions Architect to join our team in Coral Gables, Florida (33134).

About Us:

For over 130 years, Fyffes has brought a choice of tropical produce to countless millions around the world. We achieve the highest quality by nurturing relationships with our growers, supporting our employees, and diligently serving each link in the chain: production, procurement, shipping, ripening, distribution, and marketing. Our products portfolio includes bananas, pineapples, plantains, and ethnic tropical fruits.

Job Summary:

The IT Solutions Architect at Fyffes NA leads the design effort on a variety of projects related to systems and integrations, in a highly collaborative and technical environment. The main purpose of the role is to design and work on innovative solutions to real business problems, as part of the systems development team. The IT Solutions Architect works closely with product management and other software engineers to develop new product offerings and improve existing ones. The role is key to ensure that all development projects are aligned with the company's software architecture.

The incumbent will set guiding principles, procedures, and processes for software development within the organization, at an enterprise level. This includes, but is not limited to performance, scalability, coding, caching, security, encryption, error logging and testing.

The position requires both business / processes skills as well as technical IT knowledge. The position entails managing multiple and concurrent high-level tasks in a fast-paced environment within established SLAs and timelines.

This position reports to the IT Director, Fyffes North America.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Core duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned by management.

• Analyze current technologies used within the company and determine ways to improve.
• Identify the appropriate software architecture based on the requirements and design elements contained in a system specification.
• Design, develop and maintain 3rd party integrations (e.g., EDI).
• Maintain and evolve software architecture documents based on evolving system requirements and industry trends and technologies.
• Support and enhance key applications, systems and processes.
• Implement and maintain unit, system, and integration tests.
• Implement all aspects of an application design / development - high performance design, coding, caching mechanisms, security, encryption, state management, error logging, debugging, scalability, code reviews, documentation, and testing.
• Analyze risk and report problems in meeting system requirements.
• Provide supporting information to the Development Team to aid in the creation of a system specification.
• Assist Software Designer/Implementers with the creation of detailed software design specifications.
• Coordinate the activities of the Development team.
• Ensure all development projects are aligned with the company's software architecture.
• Participate in business IT projects as needed.
• Actively participate in the Scrum development team, contributing to user story definition, goal alignment, testing, and solution deployment.
• Serve as a proxy for the product owner within the teams, facilitating alignment with business needs and objectives.
• Position may require working extended hours, holidays, and/or weekends as needed.
• Occasional travel within North America may be required.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field from an accredited four-year institution or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience designing and/or developing software, with some combination of Java, Angular & SQL. Azure and or AWS desirable.
• 7+ years of experience designing and/or developing in a SOA/Microservices environment.
• Experience with Microservices management, deployment, and administration.
• 7+ years using SQL server queries and programming.
• Experience with version control. CVS, Github or others.
• Front-end and back-end design and development experience.
• ERP experience, SAP preferable.
• Enterprise system integration experience.
• Food, CPG, retail, and/or produce industry experience preferred, but not required.
• Knowledge in Agile methodology framework.

Skills and Abilities:

• Good understanding of business processes.
• Strong verbal and written English skills required, Spanish skills a plus.
• Project management skills.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Medical, vision and dental insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Life insurance
• 401k
• 15 days of vacation per year
• Paid sick time off.

Please submit your resume via the 'Apply now' button!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer!