Digital Architect

Company: Dine Brands Global
Location: Glendale
Posted on: January 15, 2022

Job Description:

The Digital Architect is part of Digital Engineering team enabling agility within Dine Brands by ensuring a connected and informed enterprise and ecosystem of guest-facing technology.

They design, build and maintain current and target state architectures for Dine's websites, mobile apps, and related products across all four architecture domains (Business, Information, Application and Technology) to the level of detail appropriate to making them fit-for-purpose and consistent with Dine standards. They are execution-oriented, agile-minded evangelists of architecture as a means of accelerating time to market, increasing productivity and responding to changes with fast, well-informed and data driven decisions.

Business Unit Summary

The Digital Technology Architect reports directly to the Vice President, Engineering and will play an important role in crafting a technology roadmap, influencing Dine Brands' digital strategy and ensuring that the company's digital technology platforms and processes continue to drive the development of that strategy. This is a hands-on technical role

Key Responsibilities
Develops and maintains current and target state Digital architectures at the product level across Business, Information, Application and Technology domains consistent with established standards and to the level of detail necessary for ensuring they are fit-for-purpose
Deliver architectural initiatives that improve efficiency by overseeing the implementation of the target state architecture supporting integrated systems in an integrated ecosystem
Leads and builds digital technology solutions
Maintains broad enterprise level knowledge of the organization's technologies and architectures
Provide architectural consulting to programs, projects and initiatives
Maintain broad knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging technologies
Ensures alignment of Solution/Product Architecture to Enterprise Architecture and strategic business plans. Identifies strategic opportunities for the matrixed architecture practice and engages key stakeholders to ensure support and alignment
Maintains a thorough understanding of Dine Brands current business environment and how their product/solution supports and enables it
Understands Dine Brands business processes and their relationship to the systems and technology that enable/support them
Ensure alignment of products/initiatives to enterprise architecture, technology standards and policies
Identify architectural risks and propose alternatives and solutions
Follows established methodology to plan, design, and support development and delivery of projects/products
Provides support to product teams to ensure the development of quality deliverables are properly planned and delivered
Performs other responsibilities as needed
Follows company policies, upholds professional standards, and performs all work in a manner respectful of others

Experience & Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, technology or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
3-6 years of experience as a Digital Architect in a comparable (or larger) organization supporting B2C commerce (over $250 Million/year in sales)
Experience developing architectural models, graphical representations and abstractions based on current frameworks
Strong leadership skills with an ability to foster alignment and lead in a matrixed environment
Strong solution architecture skills with a demonstrated ability to capture current state and define and implement a target architecture
Strong project management skills including stakeholder analysis, risk assessment and risk mitigation
Strong communication skills; ability to successfully communicate with technical and non-technical personnel
Strong time management and organizational skills; demonstrated ability to meet established deadlines
Ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems and to work in a team setting to solve problems

All Qualified Candidates Must Possess The Following Core Qualifications
Strong proactive communication, with great attention to detail and focus on execution
Ability to assist in the timely delivery of high-quality software releases
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced / dynamic team environment and possess time management skills in meeting critical deadlines
Excellent oral/written communication skills and interpersonal skills to support interaction with internal customers, team members, and internal management
Dedication to a collaborative working style and the ability to work well in small teams
A self-starter who enjoys technical challenges and embraces new opportunities
Willingness to participate in after-hour and on-call support
A desire to learn and use new technologies

Technical Skills

Full stack system .NET architecture experience Full Stack Sitecore 8.x - from data template to TDS and cloud deployment
Deep understanding of .net 4.5+ and MVC
Deep understanding of micro and web services, cloud native services, Lambda functions, and REST api's
Understanding of Solr, Lucene or other search/indexing technologies
Basic Understanding of .net Core MVC a plus
24/7 Ecommerce/Retail/Gaming experience
Mobile application experience
Application Performance Management
DevOps
Application Security and OWASP
AWS, Google Cloud or Azure Cloud and SaaS knowledge
Knowledge of deploying solutions to AWS
Experience working within an Agile methodology
Experience in Microsoft Visual Studio, with team services, integration and GIT

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