Enterprise architect, Starbucks Technology

At our core, we believe information technology is a key enabler for growth that is required for business success today and in the future. We believe Starbucks must manage its information technology resources and think long term to out-innovate our competitors and deliver maximum value for our partners, customers and shareholders. We believe solution architecture is well positioned to see across the business and help Starbucks build scalable solutions. We believe it takes collaboration and partnership to deliver results and we will work across functions to enable individual projects to build sustainable business capabilities- not just fulfill immediate needs.

Job Summary and Mission 

Looking for a digital solution architect that can define and lead strategic platform modernization and transformation initiatives that target modern architectures and technology compute platforms which deliver microservices, massive scalability, distributed computing, resiliency, responsiveness, containerization, automation, cloud deployment, stream processing, high performance transaction processing, global deployment, and asynchronous computing.  As an architect, you will be accountable for the conversion of business needs into architectures and designs that will become the blueprint for current and future solution delivery. Additionally, as a member of the architecture community you will guide the development of strategies, design patterns, and best practices for Starbucks global IT operations.

Summary of Key Responsibilities 

• Design application and platform architectures that enable performant and secure business-to-business integration and deployment.   
• Collaborate with global merchant business partners and Starbucks application teams on the integration and deployment of Starbucks systems into the merchant environment.      
• Work with fellow technologist to define modernization and transformation strategies to deliver state of the art high-performance execution platforms.
• Assesses the value of emerging technologies by conducting opportunity assessments and implementing proof-of- concepts. 
• Collaborate on the development of the Global Technology strategic plans. 
• Develops strategies, road maps and domain architectures for Global Technology. 
• Leads all phases of enterprise architecture development in support of business objectives: defining scope, modeling systems, analyzing requirements and planning implementations. 
• Provides coaching, direction and leadership support to team members in order to achieve partners, business and customer results 
• Provides functional expertise on projects; coordinating and facilitating requirements gathering. 
• Researches and represents information technology within an applied business context. 
• Collaborate with other architects and technical leaders across the organization to develop best practices.
• Provide detailed guidance and direction for design and implementation of development frameworks and design patterns for consumption across multiple development teams

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