Retail Business Services is the services company of leading grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA, providing services to five East Coast grocery brands: Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the size and scale of the local brands to and provides industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued. For more information, visit https://www.retailbusinessservices.com.
We are looking for a bright, experienced, energetic Architect + Leader to join our team. You will be the IT Architect for infrastructure supporting our large and rapidly growing Omnichannel grocery platforms and systems. The hybrid scope includes our rapidly expanding cloud compute, storage, network and other services as well as an existing substantial on-premises infrastructure. In our continuing partnership with our colleagues in Peapod Digital Labs, your leadership will be crucial to our success in consolidating and modernizing towards a single, flexible utility-grade cloud Infrastructure.
Job Objective, Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop consistent and strategic guidance, standards, principles, best practices and reference models for the infrastructure domain as pertains to our eCommerce capabilities
- Propose and champion modern cloud-native practices including automation, infrastructure-as-code and DevOps; actively participate in an architecture community which is a beacon of excellence within our parent company, Ahold Delhaize
- Partner with cross-organizational solutioning and engineering teams on infrastructure requirements, strategy and roadmap for eCommerce projects
- Engage as an infrastructure subject matter expert or troubleshooter when design conflicts or high severity problems arise
- Maintain a high level of individual contribution, professional growth and ability to function effectively and independently, and challenge others to do the same
- Participate in and continuously improve architecture and domain governance processes
- Instill financial discipline into architectural ways of working and ensure that IT roadmaps fit into our financial constraints
Innovation/Trends
Continuously Innovate and Follow Industry Trends:
- Maintain knowledge on latest industry news and challenges for eCommerce-related Infrastructure technologies and practices
- Evangelize progress towards strategic 'always-on' eCommerce goals within the context of balancing local brands' needs and driving sales and productivity
- Research new technologies and participate in industry communities and customer research activities to better understand innovative ways to use technologies to help the business
- Challenge the status quo and drive changes to improve business performance and productivity
Customer Service/Relationship Management
Stay connected to the business:
- Work with our Peapod Digital Labs and Great Local Brand colleagues to understand and deliver brand priorities and needs
- Provide infrastructure engineering team architectural and strategic guidance and develop a strong partnership and collaboration
- Recommend innovations, best practices and simplification to business process and systems
- Incorporate design thinking and user/customer experience into every product
Vendor/Supplier Management
Stay connected to the vendors:
- Conduct third-party vendor/product evaluations and recommendations as needed
- Build professional relationships with third party vendors
- Provide architecture direction for partners to ensure eCommerce infrastructure best practices are being implemented and contract obligations are met (eCommerce Infrastructure technical partner/outsourcer architecture liaison)
Basic Qualifications:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent job experience
- 10+ years of relevant work experience and leadership in related aspects of infrastructure engineering across both cloud and on-premises environments, preferably in a senior level role
- Strong and adaptable communication skills and demonstrated experience interacting with all levels of an organization across verbal, prose and visual engagement
- Ability to manage own work time and priorities under aggressive timelines and budgets
- Fluent in English (in word and in writing)
Required Skills and Experience:
- Detailed understanding and experience in architectural design for the following:
- Cloud Services preferably Azure - IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Webapps, Databases, Network, NSG, ASG, Load balancers, WAF, Security, IAM, governance and monitoring
- Compute - Server hardware, Blade chassis, Virtualization, HCI, Containers, k8s, RedHat, AIX and Windows
- Storage - HP, DellEMC, IBM, NetApp, Cloud Storage
- HA/DR - On-prem and Cloud HA, DR and active-active planning skills
- Must be highly knowledgeable in IP Networking, VPN, Routers, Switches, Load Balancers, Firewalls and other security network appliances
- Broad understanding of datacenter design, hosting infrastructure, Databases, Middleware, integration platforms, job schedulers, backup, replication, security and compliance
- Broad understanding and experience on IaC and DevOps pipeline tools that enable the automation journey and deployments.
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge on SSO security including OAuth, Open ID and SAML 2.0.
- Demonstrated ability to translate conceptual and strategic thinking into practical solutions
Preference will be given to candidates with the following experience:
- Led Cloud design, planning, roadmap and migrations
- Advanced Cloud Solution Architecture certifications or experience (especially Azure)
- Hybrid cloud on/off premise networking and integration experience
- Experience working in Agile and DevOps environments
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Retail Business Services is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law. We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities.
If you have a disability and require assistance in the application process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Department at tad@retailbusinessservices.com>
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