Enterprise Architect
Irving, TX

Job Description

Overview

▶Who we are

Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.

As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. "Brain Freeze" is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 67,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.

But there's a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.

At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It's what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.

Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.

▶How we lead

At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.

Be Customer Obsessed Be Courageous with Your Point of View Challenge the Status Quo Act Like an Entrepreneur Have an "It Can Be Done" Attitude Do the Right Thing Be Accountable

Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guild the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.

Responsibilities

▶Your Contribution

As an Enterprise Architect you will be accountable for supporting the 7-Eleven technology transformation from legacy monolithic architectures to modern software centric platforms leveraging microservices architecture. Additionally, you will build roadmap to chart the evolution of the technology echo system and maintain holistic view of 7-Eleven's strategy, applications and other information technology assets. You will strive to align IT with business strategy and facilitate optimal application of technology to solve business problems. You will need to operate comfortably across organizational and computing boundaries. The Enterprise Architect will continually drive common approaches to technology selection and maximization of reuse across the enterprise. You will be responsible for working with business, IT leadership and subject matter experts to ensure that IT solutions are in alignment with the standards, target architectures and roadmaps for respective business areas and IT in general.

* Define strategies for inception, utilization, and retirement of capabilities and technologies.
* Help build the architecture roadmap evolving the architecture.
* Support the software engineering teams that adopt the architecture patterns defined and build world class software products that serve the enterprise.
* Provide technical guidance to the development teams and engineering function.
* Lead definition of enterprise architecture principles and standards.
* Create and maintain description of the current-state architecture of the enterprise.
* Define target architecture of the enterprise or specific segment of the enterprise.
* Create and maintain the description of the target architecture of the enterprise.
* Define and maintain the capability and technology roadmap for the enterprise.
* Engage in governance activities on cross-cutting concerns across the enterprise.
* Work closely with various IT leaders, to identify and address opportunities for optimization and standardization.
* Collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure continual alignment of solutions with the enterprise architecture.
* Conduct evaluation of new technologies and recommend their adoption at 7-Eleven.
* Monitor and analyze industry trends and best practices and help define and implement standards and principles that drive architecture within 7-Eleven.
* Provide consultative and thought-partner expertise to IT and business leadership on solution architecture topics.
* Mentor and develop less experienced architects and other technical resources.

Qualifications

▶You bring

* Bachelor's degree (4 yr.) in computer science, a related field of study, or equivalent work experience.
* At least 8 years of practical experience architecting, designing, managing or developing applications in a client/server, service-oriented architecture or resource-oriented architecture.
* Exposure to working in a diverse IT environment with multiple integration systems, configurations, technologies and processing environments.
* A strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and project/product management methodologies.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Excellent interpersonal skills especially in areas of teamwork, facilitation, influence, and negotiation.
* Experience with Microsoft technology stack is a plus.
* Experience with messaging, web services, and integration technologies.
* Experience with evaluating and deploying cloud-based solutions.
* Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services is preferred.
* Experience in architecture modeling techniques and standards.
* Experience with retail industry is a plus.