Overview

Come join our pack! Here at BISSELL, we have a dynamic, progressive team of IT professionals in an environment where you can learn, grow, and create innovative technology solutions to help our business flourish! Become a part of our rich 145-year heritage that has grown from a small family business to a thriving, growing global organization. To this very day, BISSELL is still family-owned and passionate about helping you effectively and easily clean your home so you can put down the vacuum, enjoy life and come home to a deeper clean. All in all, whether your messes are baby food or red wine, mud or chocolate, cat hair or pet accident, we're here to help you embrace those messes, erase them in a jiffy, and get on with the most meaningful aspect of your home-living in it.

We have an opening for a Solution Architect - Integration role in our Chicago, IL office.

As a member of BISSELL's Digital Strategy team, you will be responsible for driving broad solution initiatives across multiple Digital applications in pursuit of a unified customer facing experience. You will have the background and experience to help BISSELL drive Global Digital Strategy forward and address the challenges related to the "middle office," what many are calling the "final frontier" of digital transformation. This role will have the expertise to architect solutions to drive digital transformation through a diverse set of business functions that are still orchestrated through manual processes shored up by a mix of legacy systems and best-of-breed point solutions.

Responsibilities

RUN WITH THE BIG DOGS

• Drive large and complex solution initiatives across the enterprise with industry experience in Consumer Durable Goods

• Build strong relationships and streams of collaboration across teams and SAFe solutions

• Participate in building the architectural strategic direction for "middle office" integration components by exposing internal enterprise capabilities to Customers and Partners

• Identify opportunities to leverage common solutions for cross-cutting concerns for broader and more complex functionality

• Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards

• Participate in building our reference architecture

• Provide architectural leadership in identification of technology partnerships

• Drive buy vs build evaluations, including consideration of OSS

• Evangelize new thinking, mentor, and coach less experienced associates

Qualifications

DESIGNED TO SUCCEED:

• 5+ years of Application or Integration Architect experience with a software development background

• Experience in building modern Cloud Native Enterprise data hubs Architectures. eg: Lambda, Kappa

• Experience with modern API patterns and how to build well-designed APIs. Expertise in implementing an Enterprise API program

• Experience with Datalakes, Analytics platforms, multiple types of data stores and ETL systems eg: Synapse, Redshift, Matillion, Informatica, etc.

• Experience leading technical architecture initiatives that impact many value streams (eg: multiple Agile/SAFe Release Trains)

• Expert in the design and development of complex solutions with customer facing or enterprise applications

• Deep cloud experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure

• Experience with messaging/eventing architecture, concepts and technology such as MQTT, WebSockets, Kafka, EventHubs, Firehose, Streams

• Experience with Container and Cloud Runtimes eg: AppServices, Lambda/Azure functions, etc.

• Experience with implementing Robotic (RPA) or Intelligent Process Automation (IPA)

• Track record of driving broad solution initiatives in large organizations with a disciplined and rigorous approach

• Knowledge of Security best practices and tooling, OAuth, IAM, ...

• Experience with Git or GitHub, Azure DevOps

• Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to produce clear and concise solution architecture documentation

• Knowledge of popular Design Patterns. Microservice Driven Design, API Driven Design, Domain Driven Design, Event Driven, API First development

• Excellent collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills. Ability to work with persons at all levels, from the most junior person to VP levels, in all job functions (e.g., product, UX, developers, QA, DevOps).

• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed

EXTRA TREATS:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or similar degree

• Consumer durable goods or Consumer Electronics industry experience

• Experience with implementing Artificial Intelligence components into an architecture

• Experience with Salesforce or/and Oracle ERP platform integration

• React and/or Angular (or similar) framework experience

• Experience with Performance testing

• Experience with Cloud automation (Cloudformation, Terraform, ARM Templates)