Solutions Architect

Under limited guidance, work at the business unit level developing the end-to-end solution architecture for significant initiatives in partnership with key business and IT stakeholders.

Job Summary

Architect resilient, high performing, and modern solutions for mission critical operational systems to realize enterprise strategies of simplification and business growth.

Job Description

Great opportunity to be part of the FedEx Supply Chain Operations IT organization which will provide you with a unique opportunity to impact transformation and strategic initiatives for a leading transportation and logistics provider. As a Solutions Architect, this position is focused on providing solutions for supply chain automation within a SAFe portfolio. Daily activities will include engagement with enterprise, data, and domain architects to solution strategic initiatives. In this position, you will work in close partnership with other solution as well as application architects in the development agile teams providing architectural and application guidance to solve problems with high system interdependency.  The position requires understanding of the impact and influence of broader industry and technology trends on the application landscape to recommend modernizing action plans for our operations.

Job Responsibilities:

• Document and implement solution, and application architecture and define components, platforms, interfaces, and development tools 
• Analyze business requirements and develop functional and non-functional system requirements 
• Participate and engage with the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure feasibility of the capabilities and features created during the Solution Delivery Assessment phase. 
• Identify strategic and tactical solutions and be able to influence and negotiate with colleagues and business partners 
• Produce architecture and oversee the development of cross-functional, highly scalable, cloud ready solutions 
• Promote the appropriate architecture and design principles and patterns to be leveraged for every technology enabled solution 
• Collaborate regularly with peer architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise direction 
• Perform all documentation and process responsibilities for Architecture Delivery, Disaster Recovery and Open Source Software requests and evaluations 
• Must be experienced in modernizing/replacing legacy systems 
• Must be experienced in collaborating on architecture with solution provider vendors 

Minimum Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information Systems, business and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.

Minimum Experience

Five (5) years equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirement.

Abilities/Skills/Knowledge

• Experience with Sparx EA 
• Working knowledge of established application design frameworks and UML 
• Ability to successfully influence change 
• Strong problem solving and communication skills 
• Experience with implementing architecture principles and patterns 
• Experience with architecting for and deploying in public cloud (Azure) 
• Complete competency in AI including LLM, Agents and Agentic AI for operational use 
• Spring Boot, Public/Hybrid Cloud PaaS experience, relational database, NoSQL, and Linux skill-sets desired 
• Working knowledge of cloud data storage fundamentals, networking and Splunk 
• Experience with SOA, API First, service design and development 
• Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems that process large data volumes with low latency 
• Working knowledge and experience developing large scale distributed systems 
• Experience in building real-time interfaces between heterogeneous systems 
• Experience working within Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and XP development practices 
• Experience in Continuous Integration/Deployment (DevSecOps) environment preferred 
• Experience in setting application architectural direction and disaster recovery models 

The ideal candidate also demonstrates the following core competencies:

• Time management and prioritization skills 
• Independent worker 
• Project management, system analysis and design experience is helpful 
• Proactive, great attention to detail, results-oriented problem solver 
• Ability to balance long term goals against immediate concerns in the areas of code maintainability, developer productivity and the customer experience 
• Thinking outside the box, willingness to battle for good ideas, willingness to collaborate with team members 

DOMICILE: This is a fully remote position that may be domiciled anywhere in the United States. 

Preferred Qualifications:

Pay Transparency:

Pay: US: $8,007.29/mo - $18,149.85/mo, CO: $8,007.29/mo - $17,393.61/mo, MD: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NJ: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NY: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NYC: $10,231.53/mo - $18,149.85/mo, WA: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo

Additional Details:

Pay Transparency:

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Federal Express Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer including, Vets/Disability.

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