Solution Architect

**Company Description**
McFadyen Digital is the leading advisor and implementer of eCommerce Marketplace solutions. During 15 years of implementing marketplaces, we’ve built dozens of platforms that cumulatively generate billions of dollars of gross merchandise value (GMV). We’re honored to have supported 10% of the Fortune 500 with their digital marketplace initiatives. Over 250 global brands like ABB, AB InBev, ACCO, Albertsons, American Red Cross, American Eagle Outfitters, US Army, US Agriculture Dept, (and many more) have entrusted their digital transformations to McFadyen. We operate global offices across the US, Brazil, and India. McFadyen Digital has been a trusted employer for 35 years and believes that people are the most important part of our company. We’re proud of our Great Place to Work certification.

Can you master and implement evolving technologies around digital commerce & marketplaces? Could you discuss enterprise transformation with a Fortune 500 CIO, CMO, or CDO? Do you have the mindset to mentor team members on new technologies and help architect scalable solutions? Can you collaborate with our delivery managers on the technical aspects of major implementations for clients across the globe? Are you intrigued by eCommerce, Marketplaces, Martech, and cloud technologies? Have you demonstrated thought leadership to the level of speaking at conferences?

100% remote work

**Responsibilities**
**Top 5 responsibilities**
- Ensure that the solutions McFadyen delivers are properly architected, developed, tested, and delivered.
- Drive and/or support business development including sales calls, preparing technical responses with estimated project scope, costs, duration and resource requirements in written proposals.
- Ensure client satisfaction.
- Actively search for opportunities to expand our business within existing accounts.
- Support the Delivery managers and Project Managers in forecasting staff, budget, and other resource needs on projects.

**Additional Responsibilities**
- Strategize with sales prospects and existing clients on innovative technology solutions to mission-critical business needs.
- Articulate the solutions and quantify cost and timeline estimates, in collaboration with other McFadyen team members.
- Challenge a diverse group of energetic team members to get the best out of them.
- Participate in interviewing Senior technical staff.
- Responsible for some staff performance reviews.
- Update our DevOps and related infrastructure & processes to improve systems, tools, automation, and methodologies.
- Drive diversification of our team’s skills across different technologies, platforms, and business models.
- Lead the continuous implementation of new industry standards and development methodologies including Agile & Kanban to increase responsiveness and growth.
- Maintain a focus on our clients’ success.
- Stay on top of technology trends and developments (out of self-driven passion).
- Drive diversification of our team’s skills across different technologies, platforms, and business models.
- Recommend best practices based on experience, research, frameworks, design patterns, and visionary thinking.
- Liaise with our global team via regular videoconferences and occasional early morning or late evening calls.
- Be responsible for driving team certifications, specializations and maintaining software partner status.
- Occasionally travel to client/prospect/partner sites and related conferences.
- Travel across the McFadyen offices and be a mentor to the technical team.

**Qualifications** Top 5 Qualifications**
- Development experience in one or more of the following technologies - Java, Python, RoR, PHP, C#.
- Experience with microservices based architectures and other frameworks like Spring Boot, BFF, MuleSoft, Apache Service Mix etc.
- Experience with Cloud Computing - AWS/ Azure/ Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with SQL and NOSQL databases - Oracle, Dynamo, Maria, MySQL or Mongo.
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks - Angular, React, Node.

**Other Qualifications**
- Experience with PWA - Vue or Magento React or others.
- Experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD, Monitoring and Alerting - Terraform, Kubernetes, Rancher, Jenkins and others.
- Experience with eCommerce, marketplaces, cloud solutions, Continuous Integration, DevOps, middleware, mobile, and content management required.
- Experience with enterprise eCommerce platforms like Oracle Commerce ATG & Endeca, Oracle Commerce Cloud solutions, Magento, SAP Hybris, SAP Commerce Cloud, Shopify Plus, and with marketplace solutions like Mirakl a major plus.
- Experience with integrating commerce solutions to retail software like ERP, OMS, CRM, WMS, Payment Gateways, Credit Management, Loyalty Platforms, Tax Management Solutions, PIM/ MDM Solutions.
- Experience with marketing technology solutions like marketing automation, Data Management Platforms (DMP), conversion rate optimization (CRO) a