Job Summary

Walgreens is looking for a Solutions Architect to join the WBA Digital Team. This role supports both the local Walgreens business as well as the global Walgreens Boots Alliance organization. This team is leveraging the most advanced and exciting technologies to service the 13,100 plus pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retails stores Worldwide.
As an Architect you will be expected to lead and facilitate the design, development, integration and deployment of various technologies in support of WBA’s efforts. The role is a combination of strategic and hands-on work that encourages an innovative and a generalist mindset. Key activities will consist of aligning the IT organization with standard set of technologies and frameworks, while keeping relevant with new capabilities in the marketplace.

The position requires the individual to join an agile team setting working on Customer facing solutions for a fortune 50 organization. As such, you must be a self-starter, a quick learner, and have the ability to innovate and communicate proactively. You must have an interest in anticipating challenges and creating alternative courses of action. The role promotes working with a team and others around the enterprise on a mutually beneficial solutions while challenging any complacency or lack of ownership. Encouraging others to continuously learn and apply modern technical or process approaches and sets a high standard for delivery of solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Leads the creation of or creates design documents that ensure consistency in development across the IT organization. Leads the definition of software architecture to ensure that the IT organization's software solutions are built within a consistent framework.
• Leads the decision-making processes related to the selection of software architecture solutions.
• Serves as a technical and business-savvy resource to software engineering personnel on a wide range of software design issues.
• Implements and improves core software infrastructure. Participates in improving software development lifecycle, technical operations and technology innovation.
• Develops technical / business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools.
• Shares highly-complex information related to areas of expertise and/or to gain acceptance of new or enhanced technology / business solutions.
• Anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur.
• Performs systems and applications performance characterization and trade-off studies through analysis and simulation.
• Leads development teams on projects to guide timely and accurate delivery of new features or technical improvements.
• Develops the technical “vision” and designs specifications of assigned projects and may perform as implementation lead.
• Mentors less experienced members of the team. Leads teams / projects and implementations.
• Provides subject matter expertise to less experienced team members. May participate in teaching and training members of work team.
• May represent IT Technology in internal or external forums.

Walgreens (walgreens.com), one of the nation's largest drugstore chains, is included in the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), a global leader in retail and wholesale pharmacy. Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health, beauty and retail destination supporting communities across the country, and was named to FORTUNE* magazine’s 2019 Companies that Change the World list. Approximately 8 million customers interact with Walgreens in stores and online each day. As of August 31, 2019, Walgreens operates 9,277 drugstores with a presence in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, along with its omnichannel business, Walgreens.com. Walgreens also provides specialty pharmacy and mail services and offers in-store clinics and other health care services throughout the United States, most of which are operated by our health care strategic partners. An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.

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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of experience in an IT engineering role OR a High School Diploma / GED and at least 8 years of experience in an IT engineering role.
• At least 3 years of experience developing and implementing Architecture
• Experience in domain-specific architecture concepts and emerging technologies. (Design patterns, frameworks, mobile and current with application architectures of NodeJS, .Net or Java based solutions)
• Experience creating and promoting guiding development principles and influencing development teams, business users and management in adoption of technical solutions.
• Experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, NodeJS (JavaScript, TypeScript)
• Experience in one or more of the following Cloud providers: Azure, GCP, AWS
• Experience with Microservices and Event based architecture
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information technology, Engineering, Science, or Math.
• At least 1 year of experience in domain-specific Architecture.
• Experience with enterprise integration and data processing approaches, such as Kafka, Event Hub, or ETL tooling
• Experience working with matrix teams including teams in different time zones;
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing and implementing APIs