Solution Architect

Company Description
McFadyen Digital is the leading advisor and implementer of e-commerce marketplace solutions. During 15 years of implementing marketplaces, we've built dozens of platforms that cumulatively generate billions of dollars of GMV. We're honored to have served 10% of the Fortune 500. Over 250 global brands like ABB, AB InBev, ACCO, Albertsons, American Red Cross, American Eagle Outfitters, US Army, US Agriculture Dept, (and many more letters in the alphabet) have entrusted their digital transformations to McFadyen. We operate global offices across the US, Brazil, and India. McFadyen Digital has been a trusted employer for over 35 years and believes that people are the most important part of our company. We're proud of our Great Place to Work certification.
**Job Description**:
Can you master and implement evolving technologies around digital commerce & marketplaces? Could you discuss enterprise transformation with a Fortune 500 CIO, CMO, or CDO? Do you have the mindset to mentor team members on new technologies and help architect scalable solutions? Can you collaborate with our delivery managers on the technical aspects of major implementations at clients across the globe? Are you intrigued by eCommerce, Marketplaces, Martech, and cloud technologies? Have you demonstrated thought leadership to the level of speaking at conferences?
**Qualifications**:
**Top 5 Responsibilities**
- Ensure that the solutions McFadyen delivers are properly architected, developed, tested, and delivered.
- Drive and/or support business development including sales calls, preparing technical responses with estimated project scope, costs, duration and resource requirements in written proposals.
- Ensure client satisfaction.
- Actively search for opportunities to expand our business within existing accounts.
- Support the Delivery managers and Project Managers in forecasting staff, budget, and other resource needs on projects.
**Responsibilities**
- Strategize with sales prospects and existing clients on innovative technology solutions to mission-critical business needs.
- Articulate the solutions and quantify cost and timeline estimates, in collaboration with other McFadyen team members.
- Challenge a diverse group of energetic team members to get the best out of them.
- Participate in interviewing Senior technical staff.
- Responsible for some staff performance reviews.
- Update our DevOps and related infrastructure & processes to improve systems, tools, automation, and methodologies.
- Drive diversification of our team's skills across different technologies, platforms, and business models.
- Lead the continuous implementation of new industry standards and development methodologies including Agile & Kanban to increase responsiveness and growth.
- Maintain a focus on our clients' success.
- Stay on top of technology trends and developments (out of self-driven passion).
- Drive diversification of our team's skills across different technologies, platforms, and business models.
- Recommend best practices based on past experience, research, frameworks, design patterns, and visionary thinking.
- Liaise with our global team via regular videoconferences and occasional early morning or late evening calls.
- Be responsible for driving team certifications, specializations and maintaining software partner status.
- Occasionally travel to client/prospect/partner sites and related conferences.
- Travel across the McFadyen offices and be a mentor to the technical team.
**Qualifications**
- Experience with eCommerce, marketplaces, cloud solutions, Continuous Integration, DevOps, middleware, mobile, and content management required
- Experience with enterprise eCommerce platforms like Oracle Commerce ATG & Endeca, Oracle Commerce Cloud solutions, Magento, SAP Hybris, SAP Commerce Cloud, Shopify Plus, and with marketplace solutions like Mirakl a major plus
- Experience with integrating commerce solutions to retail software like ERP, OMS, CRM, WMS,

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