The Solution Architect is part of Digital Engineering team enabling agility within Dine Brands by ensuring a connected and informed enterprise and ecosystem of guest-facing technology. They develop and maintain current and target state architectures for Dine's websites, mobile apps, and related products to the level of detail appropriate to making them fit-for-purpose and consistent with standards set by the Enterprise Architecture group.
They are curious, persistent, logical and clever - a true techie at heart. You enjoy living by the code of your craft and developing elegant solutions for complex problems. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join Dine as a Sitecore Solution Architect..
Business Unit Summary
The Digital Technology Solution Architect reports to the Senior Manager and will play an important role in crafting a technology roadmap and ensures the right Sitecore solutions and digital strategy in order to meet business needs that enable Dine to sustain and grow. A Sitecore Solution Architect is responsible for the leadership, planning, project coordination and management of assigned client Sitecore engagements.
Key Responsibilities
Develops and maintains current and target state architectures at the product level across Business, Information, Application and Technology domains consistent with established standards and to the level of detail necessary for ensuring they are fit-for-purpose
Deep understanding of Sitecore best practices.
Collaborate with other Sitecore Front-End and Back-End developers to create and implement innovative high-quality solutions
Maintain broad knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectural patterns and emerging technologies
Maintains a thorough understanding of Dine Brands current business environment and how their product/solution supports and enables it
Identify architectural risks and propose alternatives and solutions
Follows established methodology to plan, design, and support development and delivery of projects/products
Provides support to product teams to ensure the development of quality deliverables are properly planned and delivered
Strong knowledge of cloud foundation principles and standards.
Ability to paint a technology vision and communicate its value to leadership and teammates; experience in communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Communicate/capture solutions using architectural tools such as Sequence diagram, Flow chart, uml, etc.
Contribute thought leadership, perform systems analysis, architecture, design, configuration, testing, debugging, and write documentation
Design and implement leading-edge solutions for the business
Support Agile teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production.
Experience & Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, technology or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
8 years experience on Sitecore platform
Recent Sitecore developer certification with exposure to v8.x, 9.x and 10.x
Experience with Sitecore upgrade
Strong knowledge of MongoDB and Solr.
Familiarity with enterprise architecture patterns
Familiarity with SOLID principles and secure coding practices
Understanding of web accessibility guidelines, web analytics, and SEO
Experience with Agile development processes
Understanding of cloud-native architecture, API-first development, and microservices
Experience working with a Headless CMS
Strong communication skills; ability to successfully communicate with technical and non-technical personnel
All Qualified Candidates Must Possess The Following Core Qualifications
Strong proactive communication, with great attention to detail and focus on execution
Ability to assist in the timely delivery of high-quality software releases
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced / dynamic team environment and possess time management skills in meeting critical deadlines
Excellent oral/written communication skills and interpersonal skills to support interaction with internal customers, team members, and internal management
Dedication to a collaborative working style and the ability to work well in small teams
A self-starter who enjoys technical challenges and embraces new opportunities
A desire to learn and use new technologies
Technical Skills
Full stack system .NET architecture experience
Full Stack Sitecore 8.x, 9.x and 10.x - from data template to TDS and cloud deployment
Deep understanding of .net 4.5+ and MVC
Deep understanding of micro and web services, cloud native services, Lambda functions, and REST api's
Understanding of Solr, Lucene or other search/indexing technologies
Basic Understanding of .net Core MVC a plus
Application Performance Management
DevOps
Application Security and OWASP
AWS, Google Cloud or Azure Cloud and SaaS knowledge
Knowledge of integration platform such as Mulesoft
Experience working within an Agile methodology
Experience in Microsoft Visual Studio, with team services, integration and GIT
