Lead Solutions Architect

Role overview

Lead the architecture and delivery of large-scale order management solutions for commerce across digital, retail, marketplace, and business-to-business channels. The role combines hands-on systems design with technical leadership, client workshops, strategic planning, and guidance through implementation and launch.

Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end order management architecture, including integrations, data flows, and technical roadmaps. - Turn complex business needs into scalable, resilient designs and explain architecture choices and tradeoffs to stakeholders. - Design order orchestration and fulfillment capabilities, including store pickup, ship-from-store, returns, inventory visibility, and multi-node fulfillment. - Guide technical delivery across the software lifecycle, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and establish standards. - Work with delivery teams to ensure solutions meet performance, security, reliability, and production-readiness needs. - Advise client and executive stakeholders, and contribute to proposals, estimates, and strategic engagements.

Requirements

- 18 or more years in enterprise application development and solution delivery. - At least 10 years of hands-on work with IBM Sterling OMS or a comparable enterprise order management platform. - At least five years leading architecture for large enterprise programs, including two or more OMS implementations taken through production launch. - Strong skills in Java, REST APIs, XML, JSON, SQL, integrations, and distributed systems. - Ability to lead client-facing discussions, connect business goals to technical plans, and mentor engineering teams.

Nice to have

Experience with Sterling capabilities such as intelligent promising, inventory visibility, order management interfaces, store engagement, or call center solutions; integrations with major commerce, CRM, or ERP platforms; cloud modernization, SaaS migration, Kubernetes, or OpenShift. Relevant architecture or platform certifications and technical community contributions are also valued.

Benefits and work setup

The position is listed as full-time, permanent, and remote in the United States, with Oregon and Pacific Time specified. The annual base salary range is $164,450–$200,000, with eligibility for discretionary incentive compensation. Benefits include medical, vision and dental insurance, life and disability coverage, a 401(k), flexible paid time off, at least 15 paid holidays, sick and safe leave, and paid parental leave.