Sr Architect, IT

Overall Job Summary

The Sr Architect position is responsible for leading domain technology plans to align with enterprise goals, business plans and business processes for systems within complex functional areas. Additional responsibilities include collaboration with architects on cross-functional designs and mentoring team members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)

• Analyze, develop, and support the development of domain roadmaps that align with goals, business plans, and business processes.
• Lead project planning activities for a development or engineering team to meet enterprise schedule.
• Lead creation of project design documentation and provide technical oversight to ensure successful delivery.
• Lead maintenance of domain standards complying with enterprise standards, ensuring solutions are optimally designed, secure, well performing and integrated with other solutions.
• Lead evaluation of new technology for use in domain.
• Create documentation of domain technology used to perform business processes.
• Work with cross-functional teams, and other IT and business stakeholders, to ensure the successful planning and execution of systems projects.
• Provide leadership and guidance in the design and implementation of functional solutions to gain competitive advantage in support of business needs and strategies.
• Responsible for evaluating emerging technologies in the domain, development of domain-specific roadmaps, and providing technical oversight for solution design and implementation.
• Review technical specification documents created by the development team and mentor team members.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

12 years of Information Technology experience.

2+ years of experience in IT architecture for larger organizations.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field. Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.

Preferred knowledge, skills or abilities

• Advanced knowledge of diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments.
• Advanced ability to comprehend business requirements to ensure technical directions are supportive and consistent within the company.
• Advanced ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Advanced critical thinking skills with the ability to develop completely new problem-solving approaches and formulate innovative solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of SOA and object-oriented analysis and design.
• Advanced knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.
• Advanced ability to conduct analysis sessions and may contribute to "Closure Documents."
• Strong ability to estimate the financial impact of technical architecture alternatives.

Working Conditions

• Normal office working conditions

Physical Requirements

• Sitting
• Standing (not walking)
• Walking
• Lifting up to 20 pounds

Disclaimer

This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. A team member should perform all duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor.

Company Info

At Tractor Supply and Petsense by Tractor Supply, our Team Members are the heart of our success. Their dedication, passion, and hard work drive everything we do, and we are committed to supporting them with a comprehensive and accessible total reward package. We understand the evolving needs of our Team Members and their families, and we strive to offer meaningful, competitive, and sustainable benefits that support their well-being today and in the future.

Our benefits extend beyond medical, dental, and vision coverage, including company-paid life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and family planning resources such as adoption and surrogacy assistance, for all full-time Team Members and all part-time Team Members. Part time new hires gain eligibility for TSC Benefits by averaging at least 15 hours per week during their 90-day lookback period. The lookback period starts the first of the month following the date of hire. If the 15-hour requirement was met, the benefits eligibility date will be the first day of the month following 4 months of continuous service.

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