Sr. Solutions Architect – FedEx Careers


Website FedEx

Position Summary:

Serves as a solutions expert , at the business unit level developing the most advanced end-to-end solution architecture for highly complex and significant initiatives in partnership with key business and IT stakeholders. Exposes current state architecture and identifies options for future state architecture. Works closely with business and IT stakeholders creating solutions that balance competing interests and concerns. Develops plans for and facilitates the migration from current to selected future state by providing technical leadership to multiple initiatives. Mentors those in less senior positions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure that architecture standards are being followed for solutions
  • Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to less-senior team members
  • Work with Enterprise/Domain/UX/Application architects on architectural design and documentation
  • Ensure strategic and tactical alignment of solutions with the development teams
  • Solution patterns and integrations
  • Mobile (Android preferred) experience
  • Architect the solutions in coordination with multiple Agile Release Trains (ART)
  • Collaboration in the creation of architecture artifacts
  • Identify and validate system impacts for strategic objectives
  • Shape EPIC feature definition and solution decomposition at the SAFe solution-level
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to team members

Required Education & Experience:

  • Cloud solution experience
  • Ability to make progress in ambiguous situations with minimal supervision
  • Excellent communications skills, both written and oral. Poise in presenting to all levels of management
  • Ability to demonstrate negotiation skills/techniques, provide thought leadership
  • Ability to gain an in-depth understanding of the business and ability to translate complex technical concepts into easily understood business and technical terms
  • Understanding of DevSecOps
  • Experience in leveraging Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • Experience with Business Architecture concepts
  • SPARX EA experience