Solution Architect Membership (m/f/d)

작업 내용

At adidas, our love for sport drives who we are and what we do. But just as a ball is more than leather and thread, and a show more than padding and plastic, we are bigger than our products. We don’t just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics. We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it’s hard work inventing the future of sport, and that’s why we love it; that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs. We believe that through Sport, we have the power to change lives. To change lives, we have to create direct relationships with consumers and the best way to accelerate building direct relationships is through Digital.

Solution Architect Membership

The Membership product under Consumer Engagement & Traffic area, is responsible for establishing the best consumer facing membership program in the industry through the enablement of new technologies and the continuous development of existing features. As a Solution Architect within our team in Herzogenaurach, Germany; you will design and communicate high-level structures to enable and guide the design & development of integrated Membership core platform, APIs, and self-service solutions that meet current and future digital business needs.

As a member of the team you will work in close collaboration with business and IT teams around the globe including; Global marketing teams, platform engineering organization, and enterprise architecture.

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization

Part of Web & Mobile Consumer Engagement & Traffic and with focus on Membership, design and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. In addition to technology components, solution architecture encompasses changes to service, process, organisation, and operating models. The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.

Key Responsibilities

• Design technical solutions according to business requirements and relevant architecture characteristics (NFRs) in collaboration with other architects and engineers to ensure solutions are inline with overall architecture and strategy of adidas
• Make architecture decisions and record them: architecture style, characteristics, and design patterns to be used
• Act as an IT specialist counterpart to business Product Owner(s)
• Design solution architectures: all architecture artefacts (dependencies, constraints, system interfaces catalog, deployment design etc) that will enable implementation team to develop required components
• Facilitate technical discussions and low-level design sessions with engineering team and IT stakeholders throughout all phases of an initiative
• Continuously contribute towards technical evolution of all Membership features and solutions (Engagements, Points, Tiers, Rewards, Vouchers, and supporting data solutions)
• Own and maintain data architecture: High level data flow, logical data model, database design
• Ensure well-architected framework concepts are included in system designs by adhering to adidas architecture guardrails
• Participate in IT platform evaluation and blueprinting, drive Build vs Buy decisions
• Produce proof of concepts where required to evaluate, get stakeholder’s buy-in or demonstrate solutions
• Create architecture strategy for the product, evaluate new architectural types and patterns, communicate within the org to enhance technical excellence
• Maintain technical capability portfolio of the product and pursue optimization opportunities (maturity v system dependencies v biz processes),
• Drive relationship within solution/domain/enterprise architecture community; execute and participate in JADs (Joint Architecture Discussions)
  

Specialist advice

• Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s).
• Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives.
• Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
  

Research

• Within given research goals, builds on and refines appropriate outline ideas for research, including evaluation, development, demonstration and implementation.
• Applies standard methods to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data.
• Creates research reports to communicate research methodology and findings and conclusions. Contributes sections of material of publication quality.
• Uses available resources to update knowledge of any relevant field and curates a personal collection of relevant material.
• Participates in research communities.
  

Emerging technology monitoring

• Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation.
• Contributes to the creation of reports, technology roadmapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.
  

Solution architecture

• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
  

Business analysis

• Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organisation.
• Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations.
  

Requirements Definition And Management

• Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions. Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
• Investigates, manages, and applies authorised requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.
  

Systems design

• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.
• Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems.
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
  

Software design

• Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems.
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others’ designs.
• Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software.
• Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods.
  

Programming/software development

• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
• Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
• Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues’ work.
  

Data modelling and design

• Investigates corporate data requirements, and applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Provides advice and guidance to database designers and others using the data structures and associated components.
  

Database design

• Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities.
• Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, in order to evaluate alternative options.
• Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.
• Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.
  

Systems integration and build

• Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing.
• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress. Defines complex/new integration builds.
• Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
• Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.
• Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
• Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
  

Relationship management

• Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan.
• Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
• Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
• Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
  

Key Relationships

• Tech organization
• Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
• HR Management
• Controlling
  

Technical Skillset

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

This product mainly operates on a composition of highly scalable backend applications and services based on Java and Spring Boot. A mid-scale 3-tier web application developed on React and Node.js is also a part of the tech stack. AWS serverless technologies are highly utilized (Oracle RDS, NoSQL, S3, Lambda). Event-driven architecture with microservices is the preferred architecture style combination hence messaging technologies (Kafka or Tibco) and Restful APIs are highly leveraged. Solutions are deployed using Docker and Kubernetes into cloud via Git and automated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.

Proven experience in a similar tech stack as above is essential.

Additional Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in IT
• 2 years of experience working within e-commerce or Consumer Engagement/CRM domain with a focus on membership/loyalty solutions
• 2 years of experience in Solution/Technical Architecture
• Proficient spoken and written command of English
  

To be the best sports company in the world, you need the best talents within your teams. If you are looking for growing professionally within adidas, we are happy to receive your application.

THROUGH SPORT, WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE LIVES

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