IT Solution Architect

With more than 60 years as an established, family-owned company, Raymour and Flanigan has grown into the largest furniture retailer in the Northeast with more than 140 showrooms in seven states, and we are continually expanding our territory. We have a strong foundation of experienced IT professionals with expertise in harnessing and maximizing organizational processes and their associated information to solve a wide variety of complex business needs. 

Because of our continual, sustained growth, Raymour and Flanigan is looking for motivated and intelligent people to join our large information technology team. To those candidates selected, we offer stable employment, a modern environment which includes a brand new “Think Tank,” a strong compensation and benefits package and a high-energy work environment. More importantly, we provide opportunities to learn and grow, and our end objective is to build a team of highly skilled software professionals who can support business needs and develop into qualified professionals we may consider for future roles in the Raymour and Flanigan management and executive teams. 

As a Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing robust, scalable, and efficient solutions for our organization. You’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders, development teams, and business analysts to understand requirements, evaluate existing systems, and propose innovative solutions. Your expertise will bridge the gap between business needs and technical feasibility, ensuring successful project delivery.

• Partner with Project Management Office and Portfolio Management Team in documenting high level technical solution options, estimates and presenting to organization leaders and/or project stakeholders on proposed initiatives


• Ensures that proposed technical solutions align with organization goals, and the development resources are efficiently used


• Serve as Technical Lead on approved initiatives leading a cross functional team that may consist of Business Analysts, Software Developers, Integration Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts, overseeing the technical end-to-end solution, and ensure project timelines are hit.


• Work with and maintain good relationships with other organizations throughout the company


• Partner with Technical Leadership on the creation, maintenance, and governance of standards and best practices of Technical Teams


• Provides advanced technical expertise, oversight, root cause analysis, and accountability for resolution of outages, service level issues and other events in partnership with support teams


• Communicate technical project status to various levels of management


• Partner with Solution Architects, and Software Developers to ensure proposed solutions align with information technology, infrastructure, business, and security architectures


• Closely partner with information security in ensuring all applicable security and compliance standards and requirements are incorporated into Design and Architecture


• Be capable of being hands-on in a technical capacity as needed. This role is not primarily a software development role, but familiarity with the technologies in our tech stack is essential for success in this role


• Continuously evaluate, enforce, and improve software development and other technical processes


• Identify potential technical risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure organizational success


• This position will be part of a rotation for Release Management and On Call Support


• Must have passion for all things tech and have a drive to experiment with new technologies to see where they can benefit the business


• Travel requirement of 10% depending on technical implementations


• All other projects and duties as required or assigned

• BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related fields. 


• 5+ years of IT professional experience showing progressive growth and responsibilities.


• Hands-on experience in software development with proficiency in one or more programming languages.
  
  
  
  • Preferred experience
    
    
    
    • C#
    
    
    • JavaScript (React, Angular, etc.)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Desired experience
    
    
    
    • Windows Server
    
    
    • IIS administration
    
    
    • Azure DevOps
    
    
    • Software release management and build/release pipeline creation
    
    
    • Boomi administration and development
    
    
    • Azure Cloud environment
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Knowledge of
    
    
    
    • Web services
    
    
    • SOAP
    
    
    • JSON
    
    
    • XML Schema Definition (XSD)
    
    
    • Extensible Markup Language (XML)
    
    
    • EDI
    
    
    • Business process automation and orchestration tools and software
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile/scrum methodologies. 
  
  
  • Strong understanding of modern DevOps practices. 
  
  
  • Experience in Retail or other Fast-Paced Industries is a strong nice to have
  
  
  • Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning, Product Information Management and Warehouse Management Systems desired