Solutions Architect [T500-15899]

About FedEx:

Located in Hyderabad, India, FedEx ACC India serves as a strategic technology division for FedEx that will focus on developing innovative solutions for our customers and team members across the globe. These solutions will enhance productivity, minimize expenses, and update our technology infrastructure to continue providing the outstanding experiences our customers expect.

Job Requirements:

Responsible for leading the development of comprehensive solution architecture strategies, ensuring seamless integration of application solutions across teams and domains while maintaining robust technical foundations. The role involves collaborating with other architects to validate feasibility, oversee compliance with quality attributes, manage technical risks, and guide IT architects to enhance their solution architecture leadership skills while aligning with FedEx's best practices and technological standards.

Skills Required:

• Works with databases, servers, networks, and various programming languages.
• Mentor those in less senior positions
• Must have skills in Angular/ any front end, Spring Boot, JAVA, SQL, Oracle, Cloud, CI/CD/CT, Microservices , API's and Testing Automation.
• It's nice to have candidates with HR domain experience.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead and define solution architecture strategies, encompassing technology and architecture for seamless integration of application solutions across various teams and domains.
• Establish and maintain the architectural runway at a solution level, ensuring a robust technical foundation for rapidly and reliably creating new functionalities and features across teams and ARTs.
• Collaborate with other architects to validate the feasibility and sustainability of solution architectures and application portfolio lifecycle planning, ensuring alignment with FedEx best practices and design standards.
• Oversee the management of non-functional requirements and compliance to ensure that solution architectures meet essential quality attributes such as performance, scalability, security, and maintainability, meeting stakeholder acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with other architects to define the appropriate delivery approach for solution services, encompassing processes, methodologies, tooling, and partnerships for agreement on service design and delivery.
• Identify and manage technical risks and continuous improvement opportunities for solution architectures, leveraging expert business knowledge to mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate new or emerging technologies utilized by internal teams, ensuring alignment with FedEx technological standards and potential integration into solution architectures.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other IT architects to develop their skills and expertise in solution architecture leadership and execution.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.
• Relevant Master’s degree, TOGAF certification, and SAFe Agile certification are strongly preferred.
• Nine (9) years of qualifying work experience in information technology or engineering environment with direct responsibility for strategy formulation and solution/technical architecture, as well as designing, architecting, developing, implementing and monitoring efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
• A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.