Sr. Solutions Architect in Huntersville, NC at American Tire Distributors

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies. 

Job Description Summary
The Sr. Solutions Architect is a person who has hands-on experience with building cloud-native applications. The person would work closely with our vendor, business partner(s) to onboard their applications to integrate with our eco-systems and develop data integration patterns, business API interactions, and re-engineer applications to fully leverage the organizations IT Enterprise Applications. The Sr. Solutions Architect should be able to work on cutting edge, business-critical projects at the forefront of application development and cloud technology adoption.

• Demonstrate success as a software developer, application architect, product manager, CTO, or consultant working with various platforms
• Work directly with customers, partners or third-party developers
• Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, blogging writing.
• Technology thought leader across organization

• Work as a technical leader alongside various development leads, delivery managers & directing juniors & Application Architects.
• Lead technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of new technologies and practices.
• Architect and build highly scalable, cloud-native applications.
• Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices, AI, Blockchain, Machine Learning)
• Participate in entire development lifecycle
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and develop solutions
• Leverage microservices architecture patterns
• Ability to provide guidance and mentoring across the full development stack
• Advise on implementing Cloud-native & EAI Patterns best practices.
• Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your application development expertise.
• Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment
• Continuous Integration (CI) tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Education:  Minimum bachelor’s degree from four-year College or University preferred in science, math or equivalent
• Experience: Minimum of 15 years’ experience within the IT App dev and delivery organization.
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development, DevOps engineering, systems administration, or systems architecture
  • Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Company, in its discretion may find appropriate and acceptable.

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable and secure web applications using Angular, Nodejs and Springboot
• Intimate Knowledge of web Services, Java and architecting experience towards integration solutions.
• Experience with global continuous delivery methods
• Development with Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript/Node JS
• Knowledge or development experience with Kubernetes
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) and microservices architecture
• Demonstrated experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle
• Curiosity about how complex technical systems successfully operate at scale when failure is inevitable
• People who see influence as their preferred tool for cultivating relationships
• Collaboration and continuous improvement
• A desire to learn and readiness to teach/document
• Iteration as the path forward

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position.  Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.  Nothing in this job description creates a contract of employment in any way for any person.   All employees hired by American Tire Distributors, Inc. are employees at will and the company reserves the right to terminate employees at any time for any reason or no reason at all.

American Tire Distributors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace

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Shift Type: 1st Shift (United States of America)
Job ID: R28635