Solution Architect - Global People Systems - Corporate Solutions
Costco
Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.
This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.
Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.
Position Summary
Solution Architects create IT architecture & design solutions based on business requirements, industry trends, and technology options. Solution Architects are responsible and accountable for the solution architecture in partnership with enterprise architects, domain architects, and engineering teams. Solution Architects partner with the delivery team for solution planning, delivery, detailed design and implemented solutions. Solution Architects ensure the implemented solutions are consistent with the approved architecture. Solution Architects communicate, mentor, and lead teams based on program or project needs for solution delivery.
Costco is seeking a dedicated and experienced Solution Architect to join our GPS (Global People Systems) team. The selected will be responsible for technical oversight, analysis, development and support of our Corporate HR and Payroll Applications. This Solution Architect will also coordinate, mentor, collaborate and potentially lead others within the lead others on development and delivery of solutions following Costco’s change management policies and procedures.
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ROLE
● Designs, develops and ensures compliance to architectural standards throughout the lifecycle.
● Analyzes the Business-IT environment (run, grow, and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation, and innovation)
● Identifies aging technology issues, or misalignment, with business requirements, and proposes solutions.
● Partners with Enterprise Architects for domain roadmaps and reference architecture.
● Executes projects and initiatives on the domain roadmap in partnership with Enterprise Architects.
● Consults with application and infrastructure development projects, and identifies when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solution architecture.
● Ensures cohesiveness of solution designs across various projects/solutions.
● Collaborates with Enterprise Architects to balance needs between Solution Architectural Guardrails.
● Designs, develops, and directs solution architectures, design exceptions, and governance activities in compliance with target states, reference architectures, architecture standards, technology guardrails, and security and operational guidelines.
● Identifies the organizational impact (Skills, processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
● Creates non-functional specs for operational agility, disaster recovery, and support.
● Establishes solution delivery flow for continuous integration, testing and delivery, and operational deployment in partnership with project managers, solution leads and other stakeholders.
● Conducts design reviews to validate alignment with architecture.
● Modifies solution architecture to support changing business or technology requirements.
● Documents solutions architecture design and analysis work, and communicates architectural decisions that impact solution.
● Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
● Communicates infrastructure, software, information, and/solution concepts to all levels of management.
● Designs methodology that consistently yields the right level of technical design documentation and develops technical solutions that conform both to customer requirements and information development standards.
● Adheres to Costco’s Architectural Framework and Governance model.
● Regular and reliable workplace attendance at your assigned location.
Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery.
Computer, phone, printer, copier, fax
REQUIRED
● Experience with SAP products, Open Systems, COTS packages
● Expertise in Enterprise Integration & Implementations
● Create Road Maps
● Create & present architectural artifacts
● Understand complex business requirements and come up with solutions
● Create options, pros & cons and get approvals with Architectural review board
● Understanding of Architectural frameworks.
● Professional Information Technology experience in solutioning, designing, development, and delivering computer systems.
● Technical team leadership experience.
● Hands-on solutions architecture experience with COTS package integration experience.
● Proven skills in leadership, relationship building, negotiation, collaboration, advocacy, governance, and consensus building.
● Knowledge of IT Application architecture, Design methodologies across multiple platforms.
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills (facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution) at all levels.
● Ability to translate technical ideas/designs to multiple audiences, including Executives.
● Thorough understanding of and experience with multiple SDLC methods such as waterfall, SCRUM, and/or Agile.
● Ability to communicate trade-offs and transactional states with technical and business teams.
● Ability to make architecture changes in a dynamic agile environment.
Recommended
● Software development life cycle, SAP Products implementations, IBM stack, open systems
● Enterprise software implementations
● People life cycle business process, solutions and product implementations
● Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.
Required Documents
● Cover Letter
● Resume
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Pay Ranges:
Level 2 - $120,000 - $155,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible
Level 3 - $145,000 - $180,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible
Level 4 - $175,000 - $230,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.
Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com
If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.