[Remote] Solution Architect - Inventory & Merchandising (REMOTE)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DICK’S Sporting Goods is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities it serves. The Solution Architect – Inventory & Merchandising will lead technology design and solutioning for complex inventory and merchandising initiatives, collaborating across business and engineering functions to align strategic goals with technical solutions.


Responsibilities

  • Stays current on emerging technical trends, patterns, and solutions in retail inventory management, merchandising, supply chain, and enterprise data domains
  • Acts as the resident expert on technology trends, influencing business and technical teams to adopt innovative solutions
  • Leads end-to-end technical architecture for initiatives, driving collaboration, communication, and hands-on development of proof-of-concepts and reference architectures
  • Recommends and leads solution architecture work, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives, platform roadmaps, and reference architecture patterns
  • Produces and maintains technology systems views and roadmaps for inventory and merchandising domains, ensuring accuracy and actionability for engineering, business, and foundational tech teams
  • Maintains consistent solution architecture designs, including current and transitional states, risks, feasibility, and directional roadmaps
  • Drives execution of large-scale initiatives through documentation, roadmaps, communications, and alignment with business, product, and technical plans
  • Organizes and leads technical design discussions with engineering teams to develop robust integration and data solutions across a complex, multi-system landscape
  • Assists in translating domain and application roadmaps into actionable steps for engineering leaders
  • Keeps technical leadership informed on reviews, risks, and domain direction
  • Guides engineers in solution architecture practices, including technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, compliance, cross-team collaboration, and alignment with platform architecture and roadmaps
  • Shares best practices, technology patterns, and lessons learned, updating system architecture roadmaps and reference architectures based on evolving technologies and vendor solutions

Skills

  • Direct experience with Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures, Azure Cloud Technologies, Enterprise Data Platforms, merchandise planning systems (e.g., financial planning, assortment planning, buy planning), ERP platforms, supply chain and warehouse management systems, and omnichannel fulfillment platforms
  • Hands-on collaboration with engineering and platform teams to design, build, and deliver solution spikes and proof-of-concepts
  • Delivering artifacts to assess business and systems impacts
  • Maintaining current and transitional systems diagrams
  • Ensuring non-functional requirements (security, compliance, reliability, performance) are met
  • Working with stakeholders to turn design options, risks, and feasibility assessments into actionable technology roadmaps
  • Staying current on emerging technical trends, patterns, and solutions in retail inventory management, merchandising, supply chain, and enterprise data domains
  • Acting as the resident expert on technology trends, influencing business and technical teams to adopt innovative solutions
  • Leading end-to-end technical architecture for initiatives, driving collaboration, communication, and hands-on development of proof-of-concepts and reference architectures
  • Producing and maintaining technology systems views and roadmaps for inventory and merchandising domains
  • Maintaining consistent solution architecture designs, including current and transitional states, risks, feasibility, and directional roadmaps
  • Driving execution of large-scale initiatives through documentation, roadmaps, communications, and alignment with business, product, and technical plans
  • Organizing and leading technical design discussions with engineering teams to develop robust integration and data solutions across a complex, multi-system landscape
  • Assisting in translating domain and application roadmaps into actionable steps for engineering leaders
  • Keeping technical leadership informed on reviews, risks, and domain direction
  • Guiding engineers in solution architecture practices, including technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, compliance, cross-team collaboration, and alignment with platform architecture and roadmaps
  • Sharing best practices, technology patterns, and lessons learned, updating system architecture roadmaps and reference architectures based on evolving technologies and vendor solutions
  • Experience with cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings, cloud data/storage platforms, and containerized systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Azure AKS)
  • Proficiency in Azure Cloud services and enterprise data platforms, including operational data stores, data lakes, and analytical platforms (e.g., Databricks, Azure Synapse)
  • Strong understanding of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures, including REST APIs, OpenAPI, Kafka, PubSub, Message Queues, and streaming integrations
  • Familiarity with retail merchandise planning and inventory management systems — financial planning, assortment planning, order management, warehouse management, or equivalent
  • Experience designing real-time or near-real-time data integration solutions across heterogeneous system landscapes, including ERP platforms and supply chain systems
  • Experience refactoring monolithic applications into modern, cloud-native architectures
  • Education: Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred
  • General Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)
  • Managerial Experience: Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)
  • 7–10+ years as a technical architect in major technology implementations, ideally in retail, inventory management, supply chain, or merchandising domains
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure engineering and solutions
  • Experience designing solutions for inventory management, supply chain, merchandising, or omnichannel fulfillment domains — with the ability to speak credibly to business stakeholders about how retail systems work
  • Proven delivery of business, solution, data, and infrastructure architectures, including reference architectures, implementations, and proof-of-concepts
  • Experience producing polished artifacts for stakeholder communication and syndication
  • Strong collaboration with Product Management and Business Stakeholders for capability scoping and roadmap planning
  • Experience leading internal and third-party vendor teams through discovery, design, and delivery of enterprise solutions
  • Expertise in full-stack integration design, compute and data storage platforms, streaming/event/queue integrations, and service-oriented/container architectures
  • Familiarity with retail merchandise planning or inventory management platforms (financial planning, assortment planning, order management, warehouse management)
  • Experience with demand forecasting, ML-driven optimization, or analytics platforms and their integration into operational retail workflows
  • Experience leading or significantly contributing to enterprise SaaS migrations or platform modernization initiatives

Benefits

  • Incentive
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Company Overview

  • Dick's Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment It was founded in 1948, and is headquartered in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.dickssportinggoods.com.

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