solution enterprise architect – Starbucks Summer Internship Tempe

Position Title: solution enterprise architect

Company: Starbucks

Location: Tempe, AZ, US

Job Description:

We are seeking a Solution Architect with focus on Retail Store Technology domains (Store Technologies, Store Operations, Store facilities) to join Starbucks Technology team and be part of the Starbucks Architecture community. The Solution Architect will be collaborating with cross-organizational technology teams and become a part of the Enterprise Architectural umbrella. This role will evaluate the architecture and use technical expertise to understand business impacts while recommending and implementing new solutions, ways of working and technologies to meet business requirements. The Store technology architects’ primary focus areas will be in and around Store Sustainability initiatives, elevating the technology service experience for partners and customers.

Responsibilities:

• Have responsibility for creating and maintaining technical solutions for all our retail occasions (Order & Pay, Retail Inventory, Fulfillment, Store Operations and Store Support.
• Have experience in Cloud Native platforms including the design and automation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities including virtual machines, cloud services, container services, Web and data services, etc.
• Develop and advocate patterns, guiding principles, practices, and governance that help infuse new technologies and advanced analytics into solutions being planned and developed.
• Work alongside other architects and engineering leads to devise meaningful ways to improve Partners and customers experience through shared roadmaps and partnerships.
• Deeply involved in creation of various architecture artifacts focusing on Store Technology solutions including, but not limited to High-Level and Solution Architecture, Logical and Physical Data Reference Models, Sequence Diagram etc.
• Inspire the strategic direction of retail store technologies through active product and program engagement.
• Experience working with different stakeholders including technology and business to understand their business pain points, define business objectives, and solution requirements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in relevant field with minimum of 5 or more years of Software and/or Infrastructure engineering experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience designing / maintaining with cloud-based solutions in Azure, GCP, or AWS.
• Have hands on experience working with Microservice based architecture.
• Hands on experience building and supporting cloud based and multi-tier applications.
• Hands on experience in designing High Volume and HA-DR architecture (High Availability – Disaster Recovery).
• Hands on experience in High Availability configuration architectures (Application server, databases, Hardware etc).
• Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.